All,
Today the charter drafting team on registration abuse met
for the first time. The group plans to meet weekly but it recognized
early on that it would not be ready to offer a proposed charter by 15 January
as requested by the Council. The team proposes to complete its
assignment no later than 12 February, in time for the Council to consider the
proposed charter at its upcoming 19 February meeting.
Currently the members of the drafting team
are:
Olga Cavalli –
NomCom
Kristina Rosette
- IPC
Mike Rodenbaugh -
CBUC
Greg Aaron -
Registry c.
James Bladel -
Registrar c.
The team urges
participation from the ISPCP constituency and NCUC, as well as interested AC
participation.
I’ve reprinted
the relevant resolution below for your reference.
Thanks,
Liz
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Resolution on the
GNSO Issues Report on Registration Abuse Policies
Whereas:
The GNSO Issues
Report on Registration Abuse Policies indicated that further review,
evaluation and study be done before a PDP is initiated,
Resolved:
That a drafting
team be formed to create a proposed charter for a working group to investigate
the open issues documented in the issues report on Registrations Abuse Policy.
Specifically:
9.1 Review and
Evaluate Findings
A first step
would be for the GNSO Council to review and evaluate the findings, taking into
account that this report provides an overview of registration abuse
provisions, but does not analyse how these provisions are implemented in
practice and whether they are deemed effective in addressing registration
abuse.
9.2 Identify
specific policy issues
Following the
review and evaluation of the findings, the GNSO Council would need to
determine whether there are specific policy issues regarding registration
abuse. As part of this determination it would be helpful to define the
specific type(s) of abuse of concern, especially distinguishing between
registration abuse and other types of abuse if relevant.
9.3 Need for
further research
As part of the
previous two steps, ICANN Staff would recommend that the GNSO Council
determines where further research may be needed - e.g. is lack of uniformity a
substantial problem, how effective are current registration abuse provisions
in addressing abuse in practice, is an initial review or analysis of the UDRP
required?
The WG charter
should be ready for review by the council on or before 15 January 2009 and
will be voted on at the council meeting of 29 January 2009 at which time the
council will take the by-laws required PDP vote.