[gnso-dow123] Suggested standard text on policy recommendations

["Maria Farrell" <maria.farrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,
 
On today's WHOIS task force call, it was agreed to develop some text that
makes it clear that the recommendation on national laws refers only to the
gTLD space. Also, task force members wanted this to be a standardised text
that can be put in all task force reports to make it clear to all readers
that the work of the GNSO is limited to the gTLD space. 
 
Here is a suggestion I've drafted, drawing on the bylaws:
 
"Article X, Section 1 of the ICANN Bylaws
(http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#X ) states "the Generic Names
Supporting Organization (GNSO), (which) shall be responsible for developing
and recommending to the ICANN Board substantive policies relating to generic
top-level domains. This preliminary task force report and the consensus
policy recommendation therein refers only to the generic top level domain
space. "

 

Comments and suggestions gratefully received.

 

If and when we have a final version of this standardised text, I'd suggest
forwarding it on to the GNSO Council so that we can have a full agreement to
start adding the text to all task force reports that come through the PDP.  

 

All the best, Maria