Drafting Team

DT is an acronym for Drafting Team, which was established by the GNSO to advise ICANN staff and Council members on amendments to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), as well as to identify any such amendments that might require any further action.

Charter

The Drafting Team considered the following questions:

1. Registrant rights charter: To draft a descriptive list of rights of registrations based on the current version of the RAA. This task was assigned to a subgroup of volunteers from ALAC and GNSO.
2. RAA amendments: The Drafting Team identifies the topics on which further action needs to be taken in the form of amendments to the RAA.

Drafting Team Process

The Drafting Team works by the following guidelines:

• It works on the basis of rough consensus, meaning that all views are first discussed and then the Chair ascertains whether all views have been properly covered and understood. These consensus views mostly consist of the affiliations and names of these who are in an agreement with the views of the DT. Those who are in majority are then invited to include a discussion in the DT report whereas those who are in minority contribute to the minority report.
• Assisting in producing the DT report, the chair is responsible for appointing each position as per the following designations

1. Unanimous consensus position
2. A position where there is a disagreement by the small minority but most agree. It is nothing but the rough consensus position
3. Viewpoints of the minority
4. If there is a disagreement of several participants among the Drafting team with the designation given to a particular position and their reasons for actual disagreements is reflected in the report of the Drafting Team.

• The chair, in consultations with the GNSO council liaison(s) is provided with all the powers to limit the participation of people who are seriously creating problems in the functioning of the DT. This limitation is reviewed by the GNSO council. However, the participants are first warned privately and then there is a public warning before any kind of limitation is imposed on these participants. However, these requirements are bypassed in extreme cases.
• The DT has an archived mailing list which is open for reading by the community. All the meetings of the DT are recorded and these recordings are available to the public.
• A wiki is also provided, which the DT can use
• The council liaison(s) to the DT are asked to report on the DT status monthly.

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