As we had lots of discussion of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement at and surrounding this ICANN meeting, I wanted to share this resolution from the ICANN Board transcript at <http://domainincite.com/docs/board-meeting-one-dakar-oct-28-2011.txt> Note particularly that the Board is initiating an Issue Report to the GNSO Council, directing us to start a PDP on additional items. It's good to see that recognition of the GNSO's responsibility, and puts plenty of work ahead of us to respond. --Wendy Registrar Accreditation Agreement Amendments. Whereas, the GNSO Council resolved on 4 March 2009 to support registrar accreditation agreements, RAA, amendments as documented in the following link, recommend to the board that they be adopted and to form a drafting team to discuss further amendments to the RAA and to identify those on which further action may be desirable. WHEREAS, the Council provided a report from that working group the prioritized recommendations for RAA amendment topics. WHEREAS, law enforcement representatives have met on several occasions to develop and deliver recommendations for registrar accreditation agreement amendment topics and those recommendations have been endorsed by icann's governmental advisory committee. WHEREAS, the GNSO has extensively debated the process for developing and approving amendments to the raa. whereas, continuing to evolve the RAA is an important element in a program to protect registrants and safeguard the stability of a single interoperable internet. WHEREAS, the gTLD registrars and ICANN are entering into negotiations to consider existing recommendations and deliver a proposed seat of meaningful amendments in the global public interest with the twin goals of registrant protection and stability in mind. RESOLVED, 2011.10.28, following the number, the ICANN board directs negotiations to commence immediately, resulting in proposed amendments to be provided for consideration at ICANN's meeting in Costa Rica in March 2012. RESOLVED, the subject of the negotiations should include law enforcement and GNSO working group recommendations as well as other topics that would advance the twin goals of registrant protection and DNS stability. RESOLVED, the board also requests the creation of an issues report to undertake a GNSO policy development process as quickly as possible to address remaining items suited for a PDP. -- Wendy Seltzer -- [log in to unmask] Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html https://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/ http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/