 Responsibilities |
| Responsibilities |
| Representatives to the GNSO Council |
| The GNSO Council is the forum where all six of the GNSO constituencies meet together with certain nominated delegates to discuss domain name policy issues. Each constituency sends three representatives from different geographical regions to the Council. | GNSO
Council Representatives Mike Rodenbaugh Philip Sheppard Zahid Jamil Statements of Interest |
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| Rapporteurs |
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rapporteur (R) is appointed to lead on each major policy
issue, to draft position papers when required and act as a spokesperson on
the issue. For most active policy groups there is also one support
(S) who may deputise for the rapporteur, and one or more observers (O).
Council has a variety of voting rules for its different
groups. PDP after the issue name means there is an active
policy development process. A task force (TF) is a focused constituency-based group active developing policy whereas a working group (WG) is either a pre-policy discussion group that may lead to the formation of a focused task force, or a broadly based policy forming group. For most issues the BC uses [subject headers] in e-mails sent to the members list. These are indicated after the name of the issue. Subject headers can be used to filter incoming e-mails to specialised inboxes using the "rules" function in your e-mail software. The BC applies a priority
system to issues. |
Issue
and representation
IRTP [transfers] 1 ICANN regions [regions] 2
RAA Proposal [RAA] 1 Registry Failover Plan [failover] 1
Fast Flux PDP [flux] 1
New gTLDs [tld] 1 GNSO Reform [reform] 1 Internet Governance
Forum [igf] 3 |
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| Credentials Committee |
| The Credentials Committee checks that applicant members meet the criteria for membership as laid out in the BC Charter. Based on this information, it then recommends membership or whether the applicant would be better served by a more appropriate constituency. |
Credentials Committee
David Fares Mike O'Connor Liz Williams Philip Sheppard (rep liaison) |
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| Nominating Committee 2008-2009 |
| The BC appoints two members to ICANN's nominating committee representing small and large business. |
Nominating Committee
Waudo Siganga- SMEs Grant Forsyth - large business |
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| Former Council Reps |
| The BC has supplied three representatives to the DNSO Names Council until end 2002 and more recently to the GNSO Council. Under the new ICANN bylaws of December 2002, the former Names Council reps were transitioned onto the new GNSO Council. |
Names Council May
1999 - October 1999 October
1999 - October 2001
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To comply with ICANN's new bylaws, the BC introduced rotation in the October 2004 election with one rep elected in that even-numbered year. For clarity, the months quoted are the election months though the strict terms of office are determined by the date of the ICANN annual meeting which varies from year to year. |
GNSO Council October
2001 - October 2003 (part NC) October
2003 - October 2004 October
2003 - October 2005 October
2005 - October 2007 October
2006 - November 2008 October
2007 - October 2009 |
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