28 March 2007 Proposed agenda and related documents List of attendees: 17 Council Members
Bruce Tonkin chaired this meeting Item 1: Update any Statements of Interest Item 2: Approval of the GNSO Council minutes of 15 March 2007 Motion approved. Tom Keller abstained Approval of the GNSO Council minutes of 15 March 2007 Decision 1: The GNSO Council minutes of 15 March 2007 were adopted. Item 3: WHOIS PDP - summarise outcome of meeting with the GAC Bruce Tonkin summarised the WHOIS situation. The WHOIS task force had attempted to improve the effectiveness of WHOIS services while taking into account the need to ensure privacy protection for the personal data of natural persons. The options open to the Council would be to submit the report to the ICANN Board for a decision or to consider forming one or more working groups to engage in further study to get stronger support for the recommendations presented to the ICANN Board. There was general agreement to form a single working group for further study. 1) To acknowledge the completion of the Whois TF work and note we have received and discussed their report, and thank the task force for their work 2) To create a working group of affected stakeholders: - including GNSO constituency, law enforcement and community - whose work is to be completed within 120 days - that will work to examine the issues raised with respect to the policy recommendations of the task force and make recommendations concerning how those policies may be improved to address these issues, namely: a. define the roles, responsibilities, and requirements of the operational point of contact, and what happens if they are not c. whether a distinction should be made between the registration contact information published based on the nature of the registered name holder (for example, legal vs. natural persons) or its use of the domain name. The motion carried by 20 votes in favour. Kristina Rosette, and Avri Doria, voted against the motion. The GNSO Council resolves: 1) To acknowledge the completion of the Whois TF work and note we have received and discussed their report, and thank the task force for their work 2) To create a working group of affected stakeholders: - including GNSO constituency, law enforcement and community participants, - whose work is to be completed within 120 days - that will work to examine the issues raised with respect to the policy recommendations of the task force and make recommendations concerning how those policies may be improved to address these issues, namely: a. define the roles, responsibilities, and requirements of the operational point of contact, and what happens if they are not fulfilled. c. whether a distinction should be made between the registration contact information published based on the nature of the registered name holder (for example, legal vs. natural persons) or its use of the domain name. Item 4. any other business Alan Greenberg, ALAC liaison to the GNSO Council, drew attention to the fact that the ALAC was preparing to ask the ICANN staff to produce an issues report on the add-grace period, and invited GNSO constituency members to assist. Bruce Tonkin formally closed the meeting and thanked everyone for their participation. The meeting ended: 12 :20 UTC Next GNSO Council teleconference will be on 12 April 2007 at 12:00 UTC. Summary of Work Items arising from the minutes: 1. Bruce Tonkin, in collaboration with the ICANN staff, to create a Statement of work for the WHOIS working group to be approved at the next Council meeting on 12 April 2007 |
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