GNSO Council Teleconference Minutes
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1 February 2007 Proposed agenda and relevant documents List of attendees: 13 Council Members Olof Nordling - Manager, Policy Development Coordination - absent - apologies Rita Rodin - ICANN Board member - absent - apologies Bruce Tonkin chaired this meeting Item 1: Update any Statements of Interest Item 2: Approval of the GNSO Council minutes of 18 January 2007 An abstention was noted from a Council members who was not yet on the Council on 18 January 2007, Motion approved. Approval of the GNSO Council minutes of 18 January 2007 - Kristina Rosette and Ute Decker to draft terms of reference for Consideration Kristina Rosette presented the draft outline for work of the Working Group on Mechanisms to protect rights of others, including preventive Intellectual Property Protection Mechanisms Proposed Purpose: New TLD registries will be responsible for policies and practices that minimize abusive registration activities that affect the legal rights of others. That includes measures to discourage the registration of domain names that infringe intellectual property rights and minimize abusive registrations. At present, a number of TLD registries, and notably sTLD registries, are required to implement safeguards against allowing unqualified registration and to ensure compliance with ICANN policies designed to protect rights of others. I. Analyze Existing Rights Protection Mechanisms Suggested Working Group Membership The following list sets out initial ideas for experts that would provide useful contributions. The list is neither binding nor enumerative. • Owners of globally famous brands from different regions. Timeline: The working group should conclude its work in time to provide a report for the GNSO Council meeting in April 2007 Material [will be provided by ICANN staff]: Chuck Gomes, on behalf of some registries expressed the concern that some of the wording assumed there was a policy in place and how would the policy be implemented, while in fact there was no policy. Tom Keller emphasised that there should be a balance in the views of the working group. There should be a distinction made between task force members and possible sources of information such as EURid, WIPO etc. Bruce Tonkin clarified that there were 2 separate issues, a policy which required work to be undertaken in a policy development process and a working group looking at whether existing practices should be improved which would become gguidelines which the staff may wish to implement in the RFP and new registry operators may choose to implement those revised practices based on the advice of the working group. The Council approved the formation of the Working Group on Mechanisms to Protect Rights of Others, with a Statement of Work that will be revised to incorporate changes as indicated: 1. Voting: 2. Membership Every effort should be made to ensure that the working group include and consider the varying points of view on key issues. It is more important that all varying points of view are examined and reflected than for every constituency or group to have representation or equal numbers of members. If this goal is achieved and recommendations are developed that have rough consensus of the group, then the full Council, with balanced representation from all constituencies and NomCom appointees, will then have opportunity to act. Members should be selected who can commit sufficient time during the next three-four months to facilitate achievement of the targeted accomplishments describe in the next section (Working Timeline). The Council will appoint an initial or interim chair [or co-chairs] and the Working Group should, at its initial meeting, elect or confirm the chair and co-chair(s). 3. Working Timeline Decision 2: 1. Voting: 2. Membership The Council will appoint an initial or interim chair [or co-chairs] and the Working Group should, at its initial meeting, elect or confirm the chair and co-chair(s). 3. Working Timeline Alejandro Pisanty's term on the ICANN Board concludes 6 months after the ICANN annual meeting in 2006 (ie 8 June 2007). As recorded in the minutes of 19 Feb 04 (http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-19feb04.shtml) The GNSO must inform the Secretary of ICANN of its selection for Board Seat #13 before 8 May 2007. Note also at any given time, no two Directors selected by a Supporting Organization shall be citizens of the same country or of countries located in the same Geographic Region. Rita Rodin was recently selected by the GNSO to fill ICANN Board Seat #14, and is from North America. (From ICANN bylaws http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#VI , Article VI, section 8, clauses 1(e) and 3, and Section 2, clause 3) The GNSO Secretariat will propose a timeline/process for consideration. The Secretariat proposed the following timelines and summarised the election procedure: Call for nominations by members of the GNSO Council: The motion was passed by an unanimous vote of acclamation Decision 4: Council endorses the proposed election procedure and timelines for the ICANN Board seat # 13. C. PROPOSED SCHEDULE FOR THE ROUNDS OF CONVENTION STYLE VOTING Bruce Tonkin, seconded by Cary Carp, proposed a vote of thanks to Marilyn Cade, from the Commercial and Business Users Constituency whose term expired, for her outstanding service on the Council. The motion passed with an unanimous vote of acclamation. Decision 5: Council thanked Marilyn Cade, from the Commercial and Business Users Constituency whose term expired, for her outstanding service on the Council. Bruce Tonkin formally closed the meeting and thanked everybody for participating. The meeting ended: 22:00 UTC Next GNSO Council teleconference will be on 1 March 2007 at 19:00 UTC. Summary of Work Items arising from the minutes: 1. Arising from Item 3. 2 b. Refine the Statement of work with Chuck Gomes, Kristina Rosette, Ute Decker and the General Counsel's office to release a new draft. 2 Arising from Item 4. The call for nominations will open on 19 February 2007. |