Please let the BC secretariat know if you wish to participate as the
BC
representative.
Philip
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The GNSO Council at its meeting on 24 June 2009 passed a resolution on
Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery - PDP Working Group Charter
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/post-expiration-recovery/pednr-wg-charter-24jun09.h
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Each constituency, and the liaisons, are invited to provide names
of expected
participants who can then be added to the WG mailing list. Other
stakeholders
and experts may be invited to join the WG by the GNSO Council.
Community members
who wish to be invited to join the group should contact the GNSO
secretariat
<gnso.secretariat[at]icann.org> and the invitations will be reviewed
by the GNSO
council.
The GNSO Council RESOLVES
To form a Working Group composed of Constituency representatives as
well as
interested stakeholders in order to develop potential policy and/or
best
practices to address the issues covered, while seeking additional
information as
appropriate to inform the work. The WG will also be open to invited
experts and
to members or representatives of the ICANN Advisory Committees,
whether acting
in their own right or as representatives of their AC.
The Working Group initially shall:
1. Pursue the availability of further information from ICANN
compliance staff to
understand how current RAA provisions and consensus policies
regarding deletion,
auto-renewal, and recovery of domain names following expiration are
enforced;
2. Review and understand the current domain name life cycle;
3. Review current registrar practices regarding domain name
expiration, renewal,
and post-expiration recovery.
The Working Group shall then consider the following questions:
1. Whether adequate opportunity exists for registrants to redeem
their expired
domain names;
2. Whether expiration-related provisions in typical registration
agreements are
clear and conspicuous enough;
3. Whether adequate notice exists to alert registrants of upcoming
expirations;
4. Whether additional measures need to be implemented to indicate
that once a
domain name enters the Auto-Renew Grace Period, it has expired
(e.g., hold
status, a notice on the site with a link to information on how to
renew, or
other options to be determined);
5. Whether to allow the transfer of a domain name during the RGP.
The Working Group is expected to organize an issue update / workshop
at the
Seoul meeting, in addition to an update to the GNSO Council.
The Working Group should consider recommendations for best practices
as well as
or instead of recommendations for Consensus Policy.
Working Group processes:
All WG meetings will be recorded and all recordings will be
available to the
public.
A PEDNR WG mailing list has been created (gnso-pednr-dt@xxxxxxxxx)
with public
archives at:http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-pednr-dt/.