[PC-NCSG] Proposed motion for GNSO Council meeting

[Maria Farrell]

Hi all,

Today's the deadline for motions to be discussed at the Beijing GNSO
Council meeting. The agenda for the meeting is pretty light and doesn't
touch on some of the key current issues: RAA and TMCH. Robin suggested we
try and prompt discussion on the TMCH, so here's a draft motion I could
propose - VERY happy to take re-drafts of it, but I need to submit it
today, April 2nd.

Cheers, Maria


"The GNSO Council registers its disappointment and concern at the recent
adoption in significant parts by ICANN staff of the TMCH "Strawman
Solution" proposed by a narrow subset of GNSO stakeholders and developed in
an un-transparent manner by a numerically imbalanced subset of ICANN
stakeholders. The significant expansion by staff of rights protection
mechanisms in the new gTLDs, following a lengthy and balanced policy
process of the GNSO that settled and closed these issues represents an
unwarranted intrusion into the policy-making function by ICANN staff. The
GNSO Council notes the recent public comments by the CEO to the
Non-Contracted Parties House of the GNSO in January 2013 that the process
of developing these further rights protection mechanisms was procedurally
flawed and did not meet ICANN's standards of transparency and
accountability. The GNSO Council strongly regrets the decision by ICANN
staff and a small number of stakeholders to circumvent the established,
transparent and rules-based policy development process, to the detriment of
the GNSO Council's bylaw-defined role and the multi-stakeholder model more
generally."
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