[At-Large] Details of the GNSO vote on approving the package of RAA amendments

[Alan Greenberg]

Here are the details of the vote. It was not 
passed by a super-majority. It is unclear what the next steps will be.

Alan

>Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:29:04 -0800
>From: Glen de Saint Géry <Glen at icann.org>
>Subject: [council] Final vote on the  Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA)
>  motion
>To: "council at gnso.icann.org" <council at gnso.icann.org>
>
>
>Dear Councillors,
>
>The voting is closed on the Registrar 
>Accreditation Agreement (RAA) motion which was 
>before Council on Thursday 8 January 2009 and copied below.
>
>The final vote is as follows.
>The motion did not obtain a supermajority.
>
>9 Votes Against:
>
>Mike Rodenbaugh, Zahid Jamil CBUC), Tony Harris, 
>Tony Holmes, Greg Ruth (ISP), William Drake, 
>Carlos Souza (NCUC) (one vote each)
>Mary Wong (NCUC), Cyril Chua (IPC) absentee votes, (one vote each)
>
>Due to a misunderstanding in the process and 
>email issues, Cyril Chua's ballot was received 4 
>hours after the ballot was scheduled to 
>close.  As the balloting had not been formally 
>closed at that time, his vote was accepted into the tally.
>
>4 Abstentions:
>
>Philip Sheppard CBUC),  Ute Decker, Kristina 
>Rosette (IPC), Terry Davis (NCA) (one vote each) (see reasons below.)
>
>14 Votes in favour:
>
>Tim Ruiz, Stéphane van Gelder (Registrar c.), 
>Jordi Iparraguirre, Chuck Gomes, Edmon Chung (Registry c.) (two votes each)
>Adrian Kinderis, absentee vote (Registrar constituency) (two votes)
>Avri Doria, Olga Cavalli (NCA) (one vote each)
>
>Reasons for abstaining
>======================
>Philip Sheppard (CBUC): We are concerned about 
>the sequential approach to the RAA changes.
>
>Ute Decker (IPC): I abstain because of the way 
>the consultative process has been run, how the 
>input of registrants and users has been largely 
>ignored and because of the weighted voting that has been granted.
>
>Kristina Rosette (IPC):
>Because contrary to Dr. Twomey's statement in 
>March and June in 2007 and the Board's June 2007 
>resolution, the RAA amendment consultative 
>process essentially excluded registrants and 
>users including brand owners, and ignored their 
>input. In addition to that fraud consultative 
>process, the Registrar constituency is now being 
>granted weighted voting on whether the 
>amendments should be approved. And finally, 
>because the highly restricted, narrow and 
>limited language resulting from that flawed 
>consultative process will render the majority of 
>the purported improvements moot and/ or unusable.
>
>Terry Davis (NCA):
>I have not been part of this process long enough 
>to take a position on this yet. I am still 
>understanding all the issues associated.
>
>Mike Rodenbaugh (CBUC): the reason for my 'no' 
>vote. I believe we have an alternative as I 
>suggested, and have not heard any reason not to 
>do so. We could have a fast track working group 
>to determine which of these proposed amendments 
>truly have consensus of the Council. There has 
>not been any consultative process with the 
>Council to find out which amendments have full 
>consensus and could be adopted immediately, and 
>could be reworded and then adopted quickly. But 
>at the moment we do not have clear consensus on 
>this amendment package. Then there are a bunch 
>of open issues that are not mentioned in the 
>package at all and that we need assurance will 
>be addressed. So that is the reason for my 'no' vote.
>...........................................................................................
>
>Motion on the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA)
>Made by: Tim Ruiz
>Seconded: Chuck Gomes
>
>Whereas:
>
>ICANN has undertaken a lengthy consultative 
>process related to amending the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA);
>
>The parties have arrived at a set of amendments 
>that are generally thought to be worthy of inclusion in the RAA;
>
>Resolve:
>The GNSO Council supports the attached RAA 
>amendments (documented in 
>http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-16dec08.pdf)
>and recommends to the Board that they be adopted.
>
>Thank you.
>Kind regards,
>
>Glen
>
>Glen de Saint Géry
>GNSO Secretariat
>gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
>http://gnso.icann.org