11 April 14:00 UTC (Wed) NCSG Policy Meeting - Agenda & Dial-in Details

Mon Apr 9 00:44:01 CEST 2012

Dear All,

Please mark your calendars for this Wednesday, 11 April 2012 for NCSG's Open Policy Meeting at 14:00 UTC.

This meeting is an opportunity for direct dialogue between the entire NCSG membership and the NCSG Policy Committee (which consists of the NCSG GNSO Councilors plus representatives from each of the constituencies).  Please review our agenda below.

Wednesday's NCSG discussion is held in conjunction with the GNSO Council Meeting on the following day, 12 April (see below).

I hope you will all join in our call on Wednesday.  Thank you.

Best,
Robin

April 2012 NCSG Open Policy Meeting
Wednesday 11 April 2012
14:00 UTC (2 hours)

NCSG Discussion Agenda:
1.  Issues Report for IGOs & new gtlds
2.  Thick whois policy development process
3.  .com contract renewal
4.  Update on RAA
5.  Any Other Business?

Telephone Dial-in Details and Passcode:
  http://ipjustice.org/ICANN/NCSG/NCSG_Passcodes.htm

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Agenda for GNSO Council Meeting – 12 April 2012

This agenda was established according to the GNSO Council Operating Procedures approved 22 September 2011 for the GNSO Council and updated.http://gnso.icann.org/council/gnso-operating-procedures-16dec11-en.pdf

For convenience:

* An excerpt of the ICANN Bylaws defining the voting thresholds is provided in Appendix 1 at the end of this agenda.
* An excerpt from the Council Operating Procedures defining the absentee voting procedures is provided in Appendix 2 at the end of this agenda.

Meeting Times 11:00 UTC

Coordinated Universal Time 11:00 UTC
04:00 Los Angeles; 07:00 Washington;  12:00 London; 13:00 Paris; 20:00 Tokyo

Dial-in numbers will be sent individually to Council members. Councilors should notify the GNSO Secretariat in advance if a dial out call is needed.

GNSO Council meeting audiocast

http://stream.icann.org:8000/gnso.m3u

Item 1: Administrative matters (10 minutes)

1.1  Roll Call

1.2 Statement of interest updates

1.3 Review/amend agenda

1.4. Note the status of minutes for the previous Council meeting per the GNSO Operating Procedures:

Draft Minutes of the GNSO Emergency Meeting 26 March 2012

http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg12873.html

to be approved on 12 April 2012-04-04

Draft Minutes of the GNSO Public meeting 14 March  2012

to be approved on 19 April 2012 

1.5. GNSO Pending Projects Listhttp://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-projects-list.pdf

Review main changes.
Comments and/or questions. 

Item 2: Consent agenda (5 minutes)

A consent agenda item is being added as a standard agenda item to provide for a simplified process to obtain Council approval on specific tasks.

no items on the consent agenda
Item 3: Thick Whois Policy Development Process (PDP)10 minutes)

The GNSO Council initiated a PDP at its meeting on 14 March. However, considering other circumstances, the GNSO Council is of the view that the next steps in this PDP (formation of a drafting team to develop a charter) is not timely and that it may be preferable to delay until the .COM negotiations have been completed. This motion provides for that delay. 

Refer to motion 1:https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+12+April+2012

3.2   Reading of the motion (Stéphane van Gelder)

3.3   Discussion
3.3   Vote

Item 4:  Request an Issue Report on the protection of names and acronyms of IGOs

Refer to motions 2 & 3:

[https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+12+April+2012|display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+12+April+2012\||]

4.1 Reading of motion 2 (Thomas Rickert)

4.2 Discussion

4.3 Vote 

4.4 Reading of motion 3 (Mary Wong)

4.5 Discussion

4.6 Vote 

Item 5: GNSO Council comment on .COM contract renewal (10 minutes) 

In its announcement on the .COM contract renewal dated 27 March 2012 (http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-27mar12-en.htm) ICANN states that the question of transitioning a large existing registry to thick WHOIS has been recognised by the GNSO as raising operational and other issues that require further discussion and consideration (http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-27mar12-en.htm). 

So Council discussions are being cited as the rationale for the fact that the 2012 .COM contract contains no obligations on the registry operator to switch to a thick WHOIS format. Considering the debate that went on at Council level on this issue, the Council may deem this to be a misrepresentation of the truth. If so, the Council may then wish to draft a statement outlining this and direct the Chair to send it to the Board. 

5.1   Discussion

5.2   Next steps 

Item 6: Uniformity of reporting (10 minutes)

In its meeting on 6 October 2011, the GNSO Council resolved to request ‘the ICANN Compliance Department to report on existing systems, to report and track violations and/or complaints; improvements / changes made since the RAPWG Report or foreseen in the near future, and: identify gaps and any improvements that might be desirable but not foreseen at this stage. Further consideration of this Meta Issue, including the recommendations and considerations of the RAP WG in this regard, is deferred pending receipt of such information from the ICANN Compliance Department’. On 18 March, ICANN's Compliance Department submitted its report (see http://gnso.icann.org/issues/rap/contractual-compliance-report-reporting-uniformity-16mar12-en.pdf). The Council is expected to review the report and discuss possible next steps, including the recommendations and considerations of the RAP WG in this regard. 

Refer to report:
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/rap/contractual-compliance-report-reporting-uniformity-16mar12-en.pdf

6.1   Discussion

6.2   Next steps 

Item 7: Update on RAA Final Issue Report and Status of Negotiations (10 minutes) 

Staff will provide a brief overview of the Final Issue Report on the RAA Amendments and the Status Report on the RAA negotiations, and discuss the next steps for the GNSO Council.   

7.1   Update (Margie Milam)

7.2   Discussion 

Item 8: Update on the new PDP (10 minutes) 

In December 2011, the ICANN Board adopted, on the recommendation of the GNSO Council, the revised GNSO Policy Development Process. This session is to introduce the revised GNSO PDP and explain its new features in detail. 

Introduction to Revised Policy Development Process (PDP)

http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/intro-revised-gnso-pdp-14mar12-en.pdf

8.1   Update (Marika Konings)

8.2   Discussion

Item 9:  Any Other Business (5 minutes)

9.1  Announcement on the new GNSO website (Marika Konings)

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