13 January 2005 Proposed agenda and related documents List of attendees: 15 Council Members
Item 2: Approval of the Whereas the public comment period was due to be completed on January 24, 2005. The motion was unanimously accepted by voice vote.
Marilyn Cade presented the proposal, drafted in consultation with fellow councillors, for the consultative workshop on 7-8 February 2005. Bruce Tonkin clarified that such consultation could be scheduled to coincide with ICANN meetings in future. Target budget of 5000 Euros 20 votes in favour, 6 proxy votes in favour. Barbara Roseman reported that the staff recognized that the issue would require effort from several ICNAN staff members with specific areas of expertise Bruce Tonkin clarified that an Issues Report asked General Counsel to decide whether there were any policy issues but it did not go as far as saying what specific agreements and contractual issues were affected and proposed that thereshould be further clarification on contents and expectations of issues report in general. Philip Sheppard, seconded by Maureen Cubberley proposed the amended draft resolution: Council resolves, to request the ICANN staff manager to write an issues report (as specified in annex A to the ICANN by-laws) on the "Problems caused by contention for domain names made available by a gTLD registry ", so that Council can subsequently decide if a policy development process would be appropriate Bruce Tonkin called for a nominated vote. Council resolves, to request the ICANN staff manager to write an issues report (as specified in annex A to the ICANN by-laws) on the "Problems caused by contention for domain names made available by a gTLD registry ", so that Council can subsequently decide if a policy development process would be appropriate Paul Verhoef reported that the Human Resource Manager was concluding negotiations for the junior policy support position while the senior policy support person would probably commence early in March 2005. Bruce Tonkin declared the GNSO meeting closed and thanked everybody for participating.
|