[PC-NCSG] Proposed motion for GNSO Council meeting

[Wendy Seltzer]

Thanks for getting this started.

Can we call for concrete action, such as reversing the decision?

--Wendy

On 04/02/2013 09:33 AM, Maria Farrell wrote:
> 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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