[council] Email to GAC

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Councillors,

As agreed during our meeting today, please find below the email I suggest I 
send to the GAC Chair.

Please let me have any comments or edits.

Thanks,

Stéphane



Dear Heather,

As you know, as part of its resolutions on the new gTLD program, the ICANN 
Board passed a resolved clause during its June 20 meeting in Singapore which 
contained the following excerpt (Resolved 1.b):

Incorporation of text concerning protection for specific requested Red Cross 
and IOC names for the top level only during the initial application round, 
until the GNSO and GAC develop policy advice based on the global public 
interest.

The GNSO Council discussed this during its July 21 teleconference and has 
requested that I write to you in my capacity as Chair to enquire as to how the 
GAC intends to respond to the Board's resolution.

Our next teleconference is scheduled for September 8 and we plan to discuss 
this topic again during that meeting, so any response you can provide before 
that date would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Stéphane Van Gelder
GNSO Council Chair