[ALAC] [At-Large] Revised RAA amendment/motion

[Alan Greenberg]

Beau, I was not part of the group that drafted this, but I suspect 
that the timing is about as aggressive as is reasonable, and allows 
for significant face-to-face discussion in Sydney.

But I would be happy to pass on the feeling that sooner is better.

Alan

At 01/03/2009 03:59 PM, Brendler, Beau wrote:
>Bravo for codifying the registrar bill of rights.
>
>However, I find the final paragraph too vague:
>
>"Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, the GNSO 
>Council will form a Drafting Team to discuss the amendments further 
>and identify those that the community believes could be further 
>revised through PDP processes or through additional changes to the 
>RAA that may not fall within scope of a formal PDP process. The 
>Drafting Team should endeavor to provide its advice to the Council 
>and ICANN staff no later then July 31, 2009."
>
>Why so baroque?
>
>How about, within 30 days of board approval, the GNSO council will 
>form a team to evaluate community support for those amendments that 
>remain, and any additional amendments left out of this process, and 
>present them to the Council and ICANN staff no later than the Sydney meeting.
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>Subject: [At-Large] Revised RAA amendment/motion
>
>As you may remember, RAA amendment package that has been discussed
>needed to be approved by a 66% majority of the GNSO to allow the
>Board to put the changes in place.
>
>For a variety of reasons, when the GNSO voted on this, it did not
>receive a sufficient majority. There has been a discussion of various
>next-step motions. The following motion has just been circulated to
>the GNSO Council. As you will see, it is a cooperative effort of
>several constituencies.
>
>You will notice that a Registrant Bill of Rights, with a tight
>time-line, has a prominent place in this proposal, and the ALAC is
>explicitly included in the process.
>
>Your comments are welcome before the Wednesday morning GNSO meeting
>when it will be discussed, and potentially voted on.
>
>Alan
>
> >Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:43:04 -0700
> >From: Tim Ruiz <tim at godaddy.com>
> >Subject: [council] Revised RAA amendment/motion
> >To: council at gnso.icann.org
> >Cc: Mike Rodenbaugh <icann at rodenbaugh.com>
> >
> >This is the revised amendment/motion drafted by a drafting team
> >comprised of representatives from the NCUC, IPC, and RrC. We tried to
> >address most of the concerns that have been raised. Let us know your
> >thoughts.
> >
> >Whereas, the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) has not been
> >amended since May 2001, and ICANN has undertaken a lengthy consultative
> >process related to amending the RAA, including several public comment
> >periods and consultations;
> >
> >Whereas, the proposed changes to the RAA include important compliance
> >and enforcement tools for ICANN; The Council wishes to approve the set
> >of proposed amendments as quickly as possible so that the ICANN Board
> >may review them, and if approved then implement them as quickly as
> >possible; and
> >
> >Whereas,
> >
> >The Council would like to proceed on the drafting of a charter
> >identifying registrant rights that registrars would be obliged to link
> >to, as contemplated in the set of amendments;
> >
> >The Council would like a specific process and timeline to move forward
> >with additional potential amendments to the RAA; and
> >
> >The Registrar Constituency is supportive of these efforts and is willing
> >to participate on a good faith basis on anticipated next steps.
> >
> >Resolved:
> >
> >The GNSO Council supports the RAA amendments as documented in
> >http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-1 
> 6dec08.pdf
> >
> >and recommends to the Board that they be adopted at its meeting of March
> >6, 2009;
> >
> >Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments,
> >representatives from the GNSO community and the ALAC shall be identified
> >to participate in drafting a registrant rights charter, as contemplated
> >by the amendments and the current GNSO Council discussions, with support
> >from ICANN staff. A draft charter shall be completed no later then July
> >31; and
> >
> >Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, the GNSO
> >Council will form a Drafting Team to discuss the amendments further and
> >identify those that the community believes could be further revised
> >through PDP processes or through additional changes to the RAA that may
> >not fall within scope of a formal PDP process. The Drafting Team should
> >endeavor to provide its advice to the Council and ICANN staff no later
> >then July 31, 2009.
> >
> >
> >Tim
>
>
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