[At-Large] Revised RAA amendment/motion

[Alan Greenberg]

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-16dec08.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