RE: [gnso-dt-wg] Draft Motion
<html><body><div>Kristina,</div> <div> </div> <div>My edits in the attached redline, and indicated in red the changes in the copy below. I think it is best to just state in general terms that we are not intending to prohibit a registry's right to propose more restrictive measures. That may include additional fees, a lower allowance, etc.</div> <div><BR><BR>Tim Ruiz<BR>Vice President<BR>Corp. Development & Policy<BR>The Go Daddy Group, Inc.<BR>Direct: 319-329-9804<BR>Fax: 480-247-4516<BR><A href="mailto:tim@xxxxxxxxxxx";>tim@xxxxxxxxxxx</A><BR><BR>How am I doing? Please contact my direct supervisor at <A href="mailto:president@xxxxxxxxxxx";>president@xxxxxxxxxxx</A> with any feedback.<BR><BR>This email message and any attachments hereto is intended for use only by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy of this message and its attachments.<BR><BR><BR></div> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid" webmail="1">-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: [gnso-dt-wg] Draft Motion<BR>From: "Rosette, Kristina" <krosette@xxxxxxx><BR>Date: Tue, February 05, 2008 8:17 pm<BR>To: <gnso-dt-wg@xxxxxxxxx><BR><BR> <div><FONT face=Arial size=2>All,</FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial size=2>As promised, attached and copied below are a draft motion. I am happy to continue to act as scribe for purposes of revisions, but would be grateful if substantive revisions were posted in redline form. I think we need to aim to have a "final" (assuming, of course, that we reach agreement) by tomorrow at noon PST.</FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kristina</FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial size=2>-*-</FONT> </div> <div align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman">Domain Tasting Design Team Motion </FONT></div> <div align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman">5 February 2008 draft </FONT></div><BR> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman">Whereas, the GNSO Council has discussed the </FONT><A href="http://gnso.icann.org/issues/domain-tasting/gnso-domain-tasting-report-14jun07.pdf"; target=_blank><U><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff>Issues Report on Domain Tasting</FONT></U></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"> and has acknowledged the </FONT><A href="http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-domain-tasting-adhoc-outcomes-report-final.pdf"; target=_blank><U><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff>Final Outcomes Report of the ad hoc group on Domain Tasting</FONT></U></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">;</FONT></div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman">Whereas, the GNSO Council resolved on 31 October 2007 to launch a PDP on Domain Tasting and to encourage staff to apply ICANN's fee collections to names registered and subsequently de-registered during the AGP;</FONT></div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman">Whereas, the Board of Directors resolved on 23 January 2008 to encourage ICANN's budgetary process to include fees for all domains added, including domains added during the AGP, and encouraged community discussion involved in developing the ICANN budget, subject to both Board approval and registrar approval of this fee;</FONT></div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman">Whereas, the GNSO Council has [will have] received the Final Report on Domain Tasting [final title tbd]; </FONT></div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman">Whereas, the By-Laws require the GNSO Council Chair to call, within ten (10) days of receipt of the Final Report, for a formal Council meeting in which the Council will work towards achieving a Supermajority Vote to present to the Board;</FONT></div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman">Whereas, the GNSO Council acknowledges both that some stakeholders have advocated the elimination of the AGP as a means to combat the abuse of it and that other stakeholders have advocated the retention of the AGP as a means to pursue legitimate, non-abusive uses of it;</FONT></div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman">Whereas, the GNSO Council welcomes the Board of Directors’ 23 January 2008 resolution pertaining to inclusion of fees for all domain names added, and wishes to recommend to the Board of Directors a Consensus Policy to address the abuses of the AGP and to maintain the availability of the AGP for legitimate, non-abusive uses;</FONT></div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman">Whereas, PIR, the .org registry operator, has amended its Registry Agreement to charge an Excess Deletion Fee and NeuStar, the .biz registry operator, is seeking an amendment to its Registry Agreement to modify the existing AGP;</FONT></div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman">Therefore, the GNSO Council resolves as follows:</FONT></div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman">1. To recommend to the Board of Directors that it adopt a Consensus Policy to (i) restrict applicability of the AGP to a maximum of 50 deletes per registrar per month or 10% of that registrar’s net new monthly domain name registrations, whichever is greater; and (ii) deem a registrar’s deletes in excess of this maximum to be indicative of, barring exceptional circumstances, speculative registrations; while (iii) <FONT color=#ff0000>not intending to prohibit a registry the flexibility of proposing more restrictive excess deletion rules.</FONT> </FONT></div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman">2. To suggest to the Board of Directors that the Consensus Policy may be implemented by amending Section 3.1.1 to Appendix 7 of each Registry Agreement to read as follows:</FONT></div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </div> <div align=justify><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">Delete</FONT></I><FONT face="Times New Roman">: If a domain is deleted within the</FONT><I> <FONT face="Times New Roman">Add Grace Period</FONT></I><FONT face="Times New Roman">, the sponsoring Registrar at the time of the deletion is credited for the amount of the registration; provided, however, that the number of domains to which such credit shall apply shall not exceed 50 deletes per month or 10% of that sponsoring Registrar’s net new monthly domain name registrations, whichever is greater (“Usual Deletes”); and further provided, however, that the Registry Operator shall have the right to <FONT color=#ff0000>propose more restrictive rules</FONT> for deletes in excess of Usual Deletes during the</FONT><I> <FONT face="Times New Roman">Add Grace Period</FONT></I><FONT face="Times New Roman">. Deletes in excess of Usual Deletes are, barring exceptional circumstances, indicative of spec! ulative registrations. The domain is deleted from the Registry database and is immediately available for registration by any Registrar. See Section 3.2 for a description of overlapping grace period exceptions.</FONT></div> <div align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><<Draft GNSO Council tasting motion - SCRUBBED on 02-05-08 21_11.DOC>> </FONT></div></BLOCKQUOTE></body></html> Attachment:
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