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> On 28 Oct 2011, at 18:04, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
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>> 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
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http://domainincite.com/docs/board-meeting-one-dakar-oct-28-2011.txt>
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>> 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.
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>> --Wendy
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>> 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.
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>> -- Wendy Seltzer --
[log in to unmask] Fellow, Yale Law School
>> Information Society Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet &
>> Society at Harvard University
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http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
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https://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/
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http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/
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