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President's Strategy Committee meeting

2007-03-19 13:00
2007-03-19 16:00
Etc/GMT

This meeting has now finished.


The third meeting of the President's Strategy Committee will take place online on Monday 19 March for three hours between 1pm and 4pm UTC (6-9am PST).

The session will be held online, split into panels, and followed at the end by an half-hour moderated session where questions posted to this site will be raised.

The Committee itself is charged with "making observations and recommendations concerning strategic issues facing ICANN" and to this end held a similar online "town hall" meeting on 20 July 2006. The results from that meeting were compiled into a draft report [pdf] on 29 November 2006, and then discussed at an open session at the ICANN Sao Paulo meeting on 4 December 2006.

Feedback by those sessions will be carried over to this third meeting of the Committee. The hope is that the session will outline any possible additions needed plus highlight any new and emerging themes.

In particular:

  • What further thoughts do you have to these categories?
  • What difficulties could you foresee in their implementation?
  • What else should be considered as relative to these categories?
  • What might be some topics moving forward, subsequent to the finalization of these recommendations, that the PSC should consider?

This session will then feed into a final report to be presented to the Board and ICANN community on Wednesday 28 March at the ICANN Lisbon meeting.

The consultation will be carried out over a conference call due to the geographical diversity of the panellists.

Audio-stream Chatroom Forum


This site will be used for people to make comments and ask questions for the closing Q&A session. So do please sign up and add a question as a "comment" below.

We have also set up a chatroom, and a forum for the committee meeting (see above) in order to provide people with as many ways as interacting as possible.

By way of a very quick summary of the work done so far, the Committee outlined five main strategic areas:

  • Legal status of ICANN: Former legal counsel of the United Nations, Ambassador Hans Corell, carefully outlined ICANN's options and the suggestion was to move ICANN to the status of an international organisation based within the US.
  • Regional presence: ICANN should establish more global bases and made more connections with other organisations throughout the world.
  • Root-zone management: ICANN should discuss with the US government about how to clarify and simplify
    the root-zone update process.
  • Capacity development: Provide expertise in building up networks across the world.
  • Internal review: ICANN should keep up the review process of its own internal structures

Agenda

Time (UTC) Discussion

13:00-13:15 Introduction to the Consultations objectives and overview of the draft recommendations (Paul Twomey)
13:15–14:00 Panel I:

  • Erika Mann (European Parliament, EIF)
  • Pierre Ouedraogo (Francophonie)
  • Margarita Valdez (LACTLD)
  • Kurt Einzinger (EUROISPA)
14:00-14:45 Panel II:

  • Adiel Akplogan (Afrinic)
  • Jonathon Nevett (Network Solutions)
  • Chuck Gomes (VeriSign)
14:45-15:30 Panel III:

  • Robert Guerra (Privaterra)
  • Jovan Kurbalija (Diplofoundation)
  • Werner Staub (CORE)
  • Mark McFadden (ISPCP)
15:30-16:00 Discussion with registered participants
By kieren.mccarthy at 2007-03-13 19:32 | | login or register to post comments | calendar

Contract Enforcement

In its Draft Committee Report the PSC referenced
Responsibility #10 cited in the Joint Project
Agreement that in part called for "devoting
adequate resources to contract enforcement".

Unfortunately, the PSC did not choose to treat the
issue of contract compliance as a strategic
initiative.

While this clear failure to put registrant security
and stability concerns at the top of a strategic
priority list may have been occasioned by the top-down
nature of the Committee itself, it cannot be said that
the Committee was unaware of these concerns as the PSC
was in receipt of written comments on compliance
issues from both the INTA and Network Solutions:

INTA: "The safety and reliability of the DNS is
threatened when ICANN does not enforce the contracts
on which its business is based."

Network Solutions: "Take a proactive role in
compliance efforts to limit abuses, particularly in
light of the budgetary resources allocated in this
area and ICANN's claim that with a larger budget it
could address these abuses."

By now, the PSC should have become aware of the
registerfly.com debacle and the need to deal with
these matters on a more proactive basis.

I ask the Committee to advise the President to:

(1) examine the potential need for contractual
arrangements that impose reasonable requirements on
the domain reseller community
(2) implement a schedule, terms, and format for the
registrant data escrow arrangement
(3) hire additional compliance staff
(4) consider increasing the frequency of compliance
reviews (currently invoked only during the
accreditation renewal process)
(5) publicly post a RAA Violations Form that
enumerates all registrar contractual obligations and
allows the public to notify ICANN of any RAA-specific
violations
(6) formulate a gTLD Registrar Code of Conduct (see
RAA 3.7.1 -- perhaps using the Eurid model as a guide)
(7) inform the public whenever any registrar fails to
make a scheduled payment to ICANN
(8) inform the public whenever any registrar is not in
a status of full RAA compliance

By dannyyounger at 2007-03-18 16:11 | login or register to post comments

RegisterFly

Danny

Thanks for this. The Committee will not be speaking to the RegisterFly issue this afternoon.

But there will be a workshop on this particular issue at the ICANN Lisbon meeting.

Further, I will be making a statement prior to the meeting outlining areas which need consideration by the ICANN meeting.

Thank you for your input here - indeed some of your list overlap with my own.

May I suggest that you make further response concerning the Registrar issues after my statement comes out during the week.

Paul Twomey

By Paul Twomey at 2007-03-19 13:15 | login or register to post comments

Registrar Accreditation Agreement

Paul,

Thanks for the feedback. I'm aware that discussions started on revisions to the RAA about two years ago; could you perhaps provide us with an update regarding the current progress of those discussions?

By dannyyounger at 2007-03-19 13:49 | login or register to post comments

RAA

Danny

We will include an update on this in the workshop.

Paul Twomey

By Paul Twomey at 2007-03-19 15:17 | login or register to post comments

Place your questions here

This is where you can ask questions of the Strategy Committee at the end half-hour session

By kieren.mccarthy at 2007-03-13 20:00 | login or register to post comments