GNSO Council Teleconference Minutes
| 3 January 2008
Proposed agenda and documents List of attendees: 15 Council Members GNSO Council Liaisons Rita Rodin - ICANN Board member - absent, apologies Avri Doria chaired the meeting. Robin Gross, seconded by Chuck Gomes moved the adoption of the GNSO Council minutes 6 December 2007 Mike Rodenbaugh was in agreement with community concerns about 'excessive delay' in resolving any new WHOIS policy, but felt strongly that 18 days (January 7 to January 25, 2008) was not enough time for Constituencies to have proper discussion and scoping proposals for study and requested that the dates after January 7 2008, be moved forward 12 days. The Council discussion indicated broad agreement for extending the timeline for Whois study suggestions Avri Doria proposed submitting a revised time schedule to the Council mailing list, allowing for the extension of the deadline to the end of the ICANN meetings in New Delhi, thereafter a week for collation and summary, followed by a Council teleconference to discuss the submissions and outcomes. Item 6: Decision on appeals note on IDNC WG Chuck Gomes commented that the response of the ccNSO Chair regarding the involvement of alternates, as well as allowing the GNSO Chair to observe on the Internationalized Domain Names ccTLD Working Group (referred to by the Board as IDNC Working Group) accommodated Council's concerns and it was no longer necessary to push for equal membership on that group. * A new ICANN working group should be formed independent of groups already working on fast track IDN TLDs for countries or new gTLDs. The community, the GNSO, ccNSO, GAC and other interested groups would vet the proposals and have the opportunity to comment before they were forwarded to the board. As a separate, long term endeavour, the ccNSO was launching a full policy development process to develop an overall policy for the introduction of IDN ccTTLD’s. A third, ongoing endeavor was the GNSO’s work in responding to the Issue Report on Introduction of IDN ccTLDs Chuck Gomes's counter-proposal was generally considered a better approach to the first message because the division of the general name space between the country codes and the generics did not belong in the IDNC, and a new group would be more appropriate to handle the issue. Whereas Chuck Gomes proposed an alternate Message to Draft 0.3 distributed by Avri Doria relating to Board Resolution 07.89 regarding a fast-track for IDN ccTLDs Item 7: Discuss memo on proxy voting and formation of Drafting Team Liz Gasster reported that the memo on proxy voting drafted in collaboration with Dan Halloran considered the implementation issues associated with proxy voting with the focus on addressing the concerns that John Jeffrey had previously raised related to its implementation. Electronic voting was considered in lieu of proxy voting so a vote could take place over a period of time following a discussion, to give absentees the chance to both review the discussions and have their vote considered. Several councillors expressed their support for the idea of extending votes and felt that it made the process more flexible. Roll call votes, rather than votes by acclamation should be considered for proxy votes. Avri Doria suggested forming a drafting team to report back at the next Council meeting on 17 January 2008. Philip Sheppard volunteered to lead the drafting team consisting of Chuck Gomes and Robin Gross with Liz Gasster as staff support. Item 8: Long term Travel funding plan for Council members Avri Doria noted that there were two separate issues: Denise Michel clarified that the CEO was developing a long term policy proposal and practice for funding ICANN volunteers' travel as part of the next fiscal year's budget and this would be actively discussed at the New Delhi meetings. Avri Doria proposed Whereas the GNSO council remains concerned about funding the council members to attend future ICANN meetings Resolved that the letter drafted in I am writing on behalf to the GNSO council with a request for travel funding for all GNSO council members for all future ICANN meetings. While this issue originally came up in regard to an urgent need for the New Delhi meeting which has been resolved, it remains an issue of concern in the GNSO council. A [strong] majority of those in the council has requested that all GNSO council members receive the same consideration for their travel expenses as is received by Members of the ICANN Board. Thank you, Avri Doria be sent to the CEO of ICANN and to the COO of ICANN. The motion carried 6 votes against: Adrian Kinderis, Chuck Gomes, Edmon Chung (2 votes each). Absent Council members: Ute Decker, Cyril Chua, Norbert Klein, Tim Ruiz, Item 9: Discuss New Delhi meeting organisation The GNSO Council has scheduled two working days, Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 February 2008 before the official meetings start. Among the topics to be discussed at the face to face meetings are: - GNSO Improvements The Open Council meeting formula will again be used, where an overview of the topics will be presented, followed by open discussion and then concluded by Council discussion. In addition there will be an open comment period at the end. Council input would be collated by the chair and the staff, and further proposals would be presented to the Council for discussion later. The Domain Name Tasting PDP still has one constituency statement pending which will be incorporated into the Final report along with a summary of public comments if possible. Preparation of the Final Report will not be delayed any longer. Item 10: AOB Kristina Rosette mentioned the difficulties of not being able to edit Google documents during meeting hours from 9:00am to 9:00pm as a result of proprietary restrictions at her workplace. The meeting ended at 22:48 UTC. Next GNSO Council teleconference will be on 17 January 2008 at 15:00 UTC.see: Calendar |