[bc-gnso] ICANN Final Status Report to the GNSO Council on AGP Limits Policy Implementation

[Benedetta Rossi <secretariat-bc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear BC Members,
Attached is the final status report on Add Grace Period Limits.  The staff 
language is quite laudatory about the results of the AGP.  This is an 
informational posting for BC members' consideration. If you have concerns, 
please post them to the bc-gnso list to the attention of the ExComm.  

Kindest Regards,

Benedetta Rossi
BC Secretariat



ICANN Final Status Report to the GNSO Council on AGP Limits Policy 
Implementation2 June 
2011http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-02jun11-en.htmICANN 
today is posting its fifth and final status report [PDF, 316 KB] to the GNSO on 
the implementation of its recommendations for the Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits 
Policy. As noted in prior status reports, the success of the Policy is 
evidenced by the 99.7% reduction in AGP deletes since the Policy went into 
effect in April 2009.
ICANN committed to analyzing and reporting on the effects of the Policy to the 
GNSO at six-month intervals for two years after its implementation. The first 
status report [PDF, 41 KB] was issued on 10 June 2009, the second status report 
[PDF, 61 KB] on 14 December 2009, the third status report [PDF, 224 KB] on 1 
June 2010, and the fourth status report [PDF, 312 KB] on 18 November 2010. The 
purpose of these reports has been “to allow the GNSO to determine when, if 
ever, these recommendations and any ensuing policy require additional 
clarification or attention based on the results of the reports prepared by 
ICANN Staff.” Presented in a prior report was that during GNSO calls in April 
and May 2010, following inquiry from ICANN Staff about whether or not 
additional Policy work should be considered, the GNSO decided that the success 
of the Policy and the low number of exemption requests demonstrated that 
modifications to the Policy were not warranted at that time. Further, since the 
time of those calls there have not been any additional GSNO discussions about 
the Policy and the number and frequency of reported exemption requests from 
registrars has dropped considerably.
The results of the AGP Limits Policy illustrate the success of ICANN’s 
consensus-driven, bottom-up policy development process. Community members 
identified the problem, initiated policy discussions, generated a solution, and 
now monitor the results. The ICANN practice of encouraging and considering 
broad community input on policy issues leads to effective results.