GNSO Council Teleconference Minutes
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20 October 2005 Proposed agenda and related documents List of attendees: 14 Council Members Quorum present at 14: 10 CET. Item 1: Approval of minutes Ken Stubbs moved the adoption of the minutes: Item 2: Staff action items Suzanne Sene reported that the Whois GAC workshop was planned as an open event on Tuesday morning, 29 November. Outreach was being made to Africa and Latin America for representation. The meeting focus would be on public policy aspects such as consumer, privacy and Intellectual Property protection. Among the proposed presentations are representatives from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on consumer protection, a German Data Protection commissioner from the European Commission, the Canadian banking industry, an Australian representative from eBay, and Margie Milam from Mark Monitor on Intellectual Property issues. Item 3: Process for election of GNSO Council chair Bruce Tonkin commented that in view of the current GNSO chair’s term finishing on 18 November 2005, it would be worth considering aligning the term of the chair with that of council members which should correspond to the annual general meeting. Philip Sheppard stated that the process for election of GNSO Council chair had been updated by discussion on the council mailing list. Decision 2 The vote will be held at the next GNSO Council meeting on 16 November 2005 Philip Sheppard handed the chair back to Bruce Tonkin. Item 4: Evaluation of new gtlds (.biz, .info etc as well as .travel, .jobs. .mobi etc) Olof Nordling commented that it would be useful if Council members were to submit questions to be evaluated which would be sent to the GNSO constituencies for their input. It seemed as though the mapping of earlier rounds was incomplete thus assistance with questions that were lacking from the earlier evaluation would be useful. Marilyn Cade clarified that the purpose of looking backwards at what had been done was to educate what should be done going forwards and see what lessons had been learned from the processes followed. Concern was expressed with what appeared to be a random process asking councillors to brainstorm questions. An evaluation process was established for the initial round of gTLDs, and though it may not be necessary to undertake every question reviewed, it could be a starting point to assess what areas would be applicable in the new gTLD policy. Item 5: Policy Development Process for new gtlds Olof Nordling reported that the Issues Report for new gTLDs still required review by other staff members, including the General Counsel, and would be published shortly. It was a highly prioritized item. Item 6: Policy development for IDNs Maria Farrell reported that the IDN background paper would be published at the end of the week ending 28 October 2005. Item 7: Update on WHOIS task force Continued work in the Whois task force was focusing on items 1 & 2 of the Whois Terms of Reference, Item 8: Update on ICANN strategic planning from Marina Del Ray Meeting Marilyn Cade commented that increased interaction between the Advisory committees and the Supporting Organisations was essential. Item 9: Update on GNSO operational and strategic planning process. Bruce Tonkin proposed working on the GNSO Strategic Plan prior to Vancouver. 10.2 WSIS group update Marilyn Cade reported that a conference call with ICANN staff and the working group would be scheduled to assure a bottom up process to formulate and participate in the plan and how best to address the issue in Vancouver.
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