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[council] GNSO Council teleconference21 Oct. draft minutes
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[To:council[at]gnso.icann.org]
Dear Councillors,
Please find the draft minutes of the GNSO Council meeting held on 21 October
2004.
If you would like any changes made, please let me know.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Glen
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
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21 October 2004
Proposed agenda and related documents
List of attendees:
Philip Sheppard - Commercial & Business users C. - absent, apologies, proxy
to Grant Forsyth/Marilyn Cade
Marilyn Cade - Commercial & Business users C.
Grant Forsyth - Commercial & Business users C - if necessary proxy to
Marilyn Cade.
Greg Ruth - ISCPC
Antonio Harris - ISCPC
Tony Holmes - ISCPC - absent - apologies - proxy to Tony Harris/Greg Ruth
Thomas Keller- Registrars
Ross Rader - Registrars
Bruce Tonkin - Registrars
Ken Stubbs - gTLD registries
Philip Colebrook - gTLD registries
Cary Karp - gTLD registries - if required - proxy to Philip Colebrook/Ken
Stubbs
Lucy Nichols - Intellectual Property Interests C
Niklas Lagergren - Intellectual Property Interests C - absent - apologies -
proxy to Lucy Nichols/Kiyoshi Tsuru
Kiyoshi Tsuru - Intellectual Property Interests C.
Jisuk Woo - Non Commercial users C. - absent - proxy to Carlos Afonso/ Marc
Schneiders
Marc Schneiders - Non Commercial users C. - absent apologies - proxy to
Carlos Afonso/ Jisuk Woo,/Ross Rader/ Bruce Tonkin
Carlos Afonso - Non Commercial users C. - absent - apologies - proxy to Marc
Schneiders/Jisuk Woo
Alick Wilson - absent - apologies - proxy to Bruce Tonkin
Demi Getschko- absent - apologies - proxy to Amadeu Abril l Abril
Amadeu Abril I Abril - absent, apologies, proxy to Alick Wilson/Bruce Tonkin
16 Council Members
Paul Verhoef - Vice President, Policy Development Support - absent,
apologies
Kurt Pritz - Vice President, Business Operations
Barbara Roseman - ICANN Staff Manager
Thomas Roessler - ALAC Liaison
Christopher Wilkinson - GAC Secretary
Suzanne Sene - GAC Liaison
Michael Palage - ICANN Board (GNSO seat 14) - observer
Maureen Cubberley - observer - Nominating Committee appointee to be seated
after meeting in Cape Town
Glen de Saint Géry - GNSO Secretariat
MP3 Recording
Quorum present at 12:10
Bruce Tonkin chaired this teleconference.
Bruce Tonkin welcomed Maureen Cubberley as an observer, the new Nominating
Committee member, who will take office after the Cape Town meeting.
Item 1: Approval of the Agenda
Agenda approved
Lucy Nichols requested an update from the ICANN staff on the WIPO document
Item 2: Approval of the Minutes of 9 September 2004
Ken Stubbs moved the adoption of the Minutes of 9 September 2004
The motion carried.
Decision 1: The Minutes of 9 September 2004 were adopted
Item 3: Draft Initial Report on procedure for use by ICANN in considering
requests for consent and related contractual amendments to allow changes in
the architecture operation of a gTLD registry.
Bruce Tonkin reported that the reviewed document would be available mid
November as ICANN General Counsel and staff were incorporating GNSO Council
proposals and undertaking a legal review to ensure its implementability.
Item 4: New gTLD strategy implementation see:
http://www.icann.org/topics/gtld-strategy-area.html
Bruce Tonkin reported that on 30 September 2004, a paper was posted on the
ICANN website "Strategy: Introduction of New Generic Top-Level Domains"
which outlined a proposed strategy for the implementation of issues such as:
International Domain Names at the top level, how names should be allocated,
different types of business models, and whether sponsored or unsponsored. It
was further intended to seek input from the Security committee, Root Server
Committee and Internet Architecture Board, obtain papers from the
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the At
Large Advisory Committee (ALAC). The ICANN staff will develop a report by 31
December 2004 that combines into a single document the issues identified by
groups such as OECD, SSAC, RSSAC, IETF, and WIPO.
Kurt Pritz commented that the strategy recognized:
- the complexity of the issues,
- the difficulty of aligning timelines
- the rapidly changing environment and landscape for decisions and
implementation
The best way to fashion the strategy was to develop a flexible process
taking into consideration the changing environment.
A feature is to involve the GNSO at 2 places,
- review of the strategy document
- input into the implementation of a procedure for the designation of gTLDs
during 2005.
Taking into account the narrow time lines and the possibility that the GNSO
Council might not be able to provide input to the ICANN Board by January
2005, through a policy development process (pdp);
Bruce Tonkin proposed inviting a group of GNSO Council volunteers to study
the process, determine where GNSO Council input should be provided, the
timelines required, and the best way for the process to work post 31
December 2004.
Item 5: Update on WHOIS:
Marilyn Cade reported that Whois task force 1 & 2 were currently discussing
3 topics:
1. Progress was being made on conspicuous notice, and it was being debated
whether it should be conspicuous notice and consent.
2. Procedure to deal with national conflicts
3. Tiered access.
Participation was reported to be fairly consistent except for the Business
constituency.
Ken Stubbs reported that Whois task force 3 draft recommendations needed
further work to attain the necessary level of consensus.
Bruce Tonkin commented that Whois task force 3 mailing list traffic
indicated areas where the Registrar and the Intellectual Property
Constituency representatives disagreed, and that it would be particularly
useful if the other constituencies would provide their input on the mailing
list.
Barbara Roseman and Ross Rader reiterated the importance of all the
constituencies contributing input.
Barbara Roseman added that the disagreeing parties might be able to reach
agreement on language on a small issue, but on the much larger questions
they did not reflect a consensus building process.
Marilyn Cade commented that consensus was determined by a vote at the
Council level. The job of the task forces was to provide a report, and most
task forces did vote to support the policy recommendations put forward.
Bruce Tonkin urged constituency representatives on the task forces give
input on what they supported or did not support and encouraged the task
force as a whole to identify where there was or was not agreement.
Bruce Tonkin recommended that for the Cape Town ICANN meeting, the Whois
task forces 1/2 and 3:
- attempt to provide recommendations with a reasonable degree of finality
and consensus which could be presented in a public forum to solicit public
input.
- schedule task force meetings in Cape Town to focus on particular topics
where ongoing work would be required.
Item 6: GNSO Council review by ICANN Board
- Council to do self-review as input to external consultant
Bruce Tonkin reported that the ICANN Board, on 18 October, considered and
approved the Terms of Reference for the GNSO Council review
In summary:
1. Policy achievements.
Has the GNSO Council contributed to ICANN policy development?
§ Analysis. List the policy achievements of the GNSO as administered by the
Council indicating in a tabular form:
o what has been done
o what is work in progress
o how was this done (task force, committee of the whole etc)
o what has resulted in change to the contracts of registries or registrars.
o what has resulted in other types of change (guidelines etc.)
§ Do these policies have relevance for ICANN?
2. Outreach, geographic diversity and transparency.
Has the GNSO Council contributed to other ICANN core values such as
outreach, bottom-up consensus based policy development, geographical
diversity and transparency?
3. PDP timelines. Are the timelines relevant?
4. Staff support for policy development.
Has there been effective ICANN staff support for policy development?
5. Policy implementation and compliance.
After the completion of policy development has policy implementation,
compliance and outcome been effective?
6. Demand-based raising of policy issues.
Is the current mechanism of alerting the GNSO Council to new policy issues
effective?
7. Voting pattern.
Does the Council vote as a consensual body?
8. Number of constituency representatives.
Has the presence of three rather than two representatives per constituency
helped or hindered the GNSO Council?
9. Communication to the ICANN community.
Are the enabling mechanisms for GNSO Council outreach effective?
Bruce Tonkin commented that ICANN would appoint an external consultant to
produce a report and suggested that Council do a review of the 9 topics and
make recommendations as input to the consultants report.
Item 8: GNSO Council chair election
- Bruce Tonkin's term expires 20 November 2004
- recommend start two week nomination period
- hold election at next Council meeting
Bruce Tonkin responding to a comment by Ken Stubbs, referred to the ICANN
bylaws Section 3. GNSO Council:
7. The GNSO Council shall select the GNSO Chair, for a term the GNSO Council
specifies but not longer than one year, by written ballot or by action at a
meeting. Any such selection must have affirmative votes comprising a
majority of the votes of all the members of the GNSO Council.
Marilyn Cade, seconded by Cary Karp proposed a procedural motion:
To proceed with the election of chair for the GNSO Council and open
nominations starting 21 October 2004 for a two week period, ending 4
November 2004 at 12 noon UTC.
At the next GNSO Council meeting a vote will be held for the election of the
chair.
The term of office will be for one year.
The procedural motion carried. 21 votes in favour, 4 people did not vote, 2
abstentions
Decision 2:
To proceed with the election of chair for the GNSO Council and open
nominations starting 21 October 2004 for a two week period, ending 4
November 2004 at 12 noon UTC.
At the next GNSO Council meeting a vote will be held for the election of the
chair.
The term of office will be for one year.
Item 7: GNSO Council elections - terms of some Council members expire at end
of 2004 annual general meeting
Bruce Tonkin commented that Council wished to stay with 3 representatives
per constituency (see GNSO Council meeting, 14 August 2003) and that it
would be considered as part of the review process.
Bruce Tonkin proposed that volunteers from the Council draft a self review
of Council, write their own recommendations as an outcome of that review,
and those recommendations would be conveyed to the Board.
Bruce Tonkin clarified that according to the ICANN bylaws, Section 4.
Periodic Review of ICANN Structure and Operations, the GNSO Council review
should be complete by the Cape Town meeting.
Kurt Pritz clarified that on 31 October 2003, in Tunisia the ICANN Board
adopted the following resolution:
Response to GNSO Council Request to Maintain Three Representatives per
Constituency
Whereas, the GNSO Council has requested on 14 August 2003, that the change
to the number of constituency representatives on the GNSO Council remain
unchanged at three (3) representatives per constituency instead of two (2)
representatives per constituency as is scheduled to occur at the end of this
2003 Annual Meeting.
Whereas, the GNSO Council?s predecessor organization DNSO Names Council
requested on 1 August 2002, that the GNSO Council be made up of three (3)
representatives per constituency.
Whereas, Article I, Section 2 (4) sets out as a core value that: -"Seeking
and supporting broad, informed participation reflecting the functional,
geographic, and cultural diversity of the Internet at all levels of policy
development and decision-making.?
Whereas, Article XX, Section 5 (8), in setting out the originally proposed
transition that: "In the absence of further action on the topic by the New
Board, each of the GNSO constituencies shall select two representatives to
the GNSO Council?."
Whereas, the Board wishes to take action in support of the GNSO Council and
in response to the GNSO Council?s request.
Resolved [03.164] to change the transition article (Article XX) to allow
three representatives per constituency on the GNSO Council until the end of
the ICANN annual meeting 2004;
Resolved [03.165] to perform a review of the GNSO Council in or around July
2004 which should include among other aspects of the review criteria, an
analysis of the efficacy of having three representatives from each
constituency on the GNSO Council.
Kurt Pritz commented on two points:
if something were presented to the Board to consider before Cape Town it
should be done with reference to the resolution taken on 31 October 2003
Board papers were generally due two weeks before the Board meeting, so the
due date would be the first week in November
Bruce Tonkin proposed that the GNSO create its own set of recommendations,
which would include the 3 versus 2 representatives per constituency in
accordance with Council's wish, and present those to the Board for the Cape
Town meeting.
Item 9: Update on planning for ICANN meeting in Cape Town
Kurt Pritz and Bruce Tonkin outlined the program:
Tuesday 30 November 2004
Board and ICANN staff meetings
Tuesday 30 November 2004 - afternoon
- GNSO Review
Wednesday 1 December 2004
WSIS
Welcome
- to define the projected outcome of the meetings
-introductory remarks by ministers
IDN workshop on African languages
GNSO task forces:
WHOIS Task Forces
Council group to consider the approval of new registry services
Thursday 2 December 2004
7:30 - 9:00 GNSO breakfast
Constituency Day
Official reception
Friday 3 December 2004
8:30 10:30 GNSO public forum to raise recommendations from Whois task forces
and Council group to solicit public feed back
10:30 12:30 GNSO Council meeting
Afternoon session: ICANN public forum
Saturday 4 December 2004
Public Forum continuation
Sunday 5 December 2004
ICANN Board meeting
Suzanne Sene suggested that the GAC working group meet with the GNSO Council
and Whois task force chairs on Wednesday 1 December for a lunch meeting.
Item 10: AOB
1. Update regarding WIPO II Report
Lucy Nichols who requested an update regarding the WIPO ll report
articulated her concern that WIPO had recommended to ICANN that certain
changes be made to the UDRP as set out in WIPO ll. The ICANN Board directed
the General Counsel to investigate and analyze the legalities on the
relationship between WIPO and ICANN. The working group issued a report
indicating that there was no consensus on the recommendations made by WIPO
and sent it to the President. Concern was expressed that according to a
Board resolution the President and the staff are supposed to give a
recommendation to the Board before the Cape Town meeting.
Discussion indicated that the GNSO Council should make it clear that there
had been no consensus on the WIPO ll recommendations and it would be
difficult to make any recommendation to the Board.
Bruce Tonkin proposed sending a request from Council to the ICANN staff,
Kurt Pritz and John Jeffrey to respond to issue.
2. Staff Update Report
Bruce Tonkin referred to the report Paul Verhoef communicated in response to
questions raised during the GNSO Council meeting on September 9, 2004:
a. Staff recruitment
The recruitment of the staff position relevant to the GNSO is progressing
well. To date some one hundred applications have been received and the
process of initial screening has started with the aim to create a shortlist
for subsequent interviews. The goal is to try and finalize the recruitment
during the first weeks of November and depending on the availability of the
chosen candidates, they should be able to commence early in 2005. The
request for applications will be withdrawn from the ICANN website and the
various job boards during these days.
Bruce Tonkin reiterated that some Council members would like to be involved
in the selection process.
b. Strategic Plan
ICANN's first ever strategic plan is nearing internal completion. The ICANN
staff fully realizes the importance of releasing a credible, well
though-out, and comprehensive plan which responds to the requests from the
community to obtain a better insight in the planning of how ICANN's mission
and mandate will be implemented on a longer-term basis, in order to set a
proper bench-mark for future plans. The strategic plan is foreseen to be
introduced shortly to the Board and then be posted within the next few
weeks.
c. GNSO Review
At its meeting on 18 October, the ICANN Board has approved the Terms of
Reference concerning the Review of the GNSO Council that were jointly
developed between a number of Council members and the staff. ICANN staff
will now proceed swiftly with the search for an external consultant for the
role specified in the Terms of Reference.
Bruce Tonkin requested Council members to come forward with names of of
potential candidates for such an external consultancy role.
d. Performance of the GNSO Council
As regards the report on the performance of the GNSO Council that Dr. Paul
Twomey had retained a consultant, Dr. Liz Williams to prepare earlier this
year, a public version of the report will be posted by the end of October.
Bruce Tonkin declared the GNSO meeting closed and thanked everybody for
participating.
The meeting ended: 14:03 UTC.
Next GNSO Council teleconference will be held on Thursday 18 November 2004
at 19:00 UTC
see: Calendar
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<p> </p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">21 October 2004 </font> </p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proposed <a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-gnso-05aug04.htm">agenda
and related documents</a><br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>List of attendees:</b><br>
Philip Sheppard - Commercial & Business users C. - absent, apologies,
proxy
to Grant Forsyth/Marilyn Cade<br>
Marilyn Cade - Commercial & Business users C. <br>
Grant Forsyth - Commercial & Business users C - if necessary proxy to
Marilyn
Cade. <br>
Greg Ruth - ISCPC <br>
Antonio Harris - ISCPC<br>
Tony Holmes - ISCPC - absent - apologies - proxy to Tony Harris/Greg Ruth<br>
Thomas Keller- Registrars <br>
Ross Rader - Registrars <br>
Bruce Tonkin - Registrars <br>
Ken Stubbs - gTLD registries <br>
Philip Colebrook - gTLD registries<br>
Cary Karp - gTLD registries - if required - proxy to Philip Colebrook/Ken
Stubbs<br>
Lucy Nichols - Intellectual Property Interests C <br>
Niklas Lagergren - Intellectual Property Interests C - absent - apologies -
proxy to Lucy Nichols/Kiyoshi Tsuru<br>
Kiyoshi Tsuru - Intellectual Property Interests C. <br>
Jisuk Woo - Non Commercial users C. - absent - proxy to Carlos Afonso/ Marc
Schneiders <br>
Marc Schneiders - Non Commercial users C. - absent apologies - proxy to
Carlos
Afonso/ Jisuk Woo,/Ross Rader/ Bruce Tonkin<br>
Carlos Afonso - Non Commercial users C. - absent - apologies - proxy to Marc
Schneiders/Jisuk Woo<br>
Alick Wilson - absent - apologies - proxy to Bruce Tonkin<br>
Demi Getschko- absent - apologies - proxy to Amadeu Abril l Abril<br>
Amadeu Abril I Abril - absent, apologies, proxy to Alick Wilson/Bruce
Tonkin</font></p>
<p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">16 Council Members<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Paul Verhoef - Vice President, Policy Development Support - absent,
apologies<br>
Kurt Pritz - Vice President, Business Operations<br>
Barbara Roseman - ICANN Staff Manager<br>
<br>
Thomas Roessler - ALAC Liaison</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Christopher Wilkinson - GAC
Secretary<br>
Suzanne Sene - GAC Liaison <br>
<br>
Michael Palage - ICANN Board (GNSO seat 14) - observer <br>
Maureen Cubberley - observer - Nominating Committee appointee to be seated
after
meeting in Cape Town<br>
<br>
Glen de Saint Géry - GNSO Secretariat<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">MP3 Recording<br>
Quorum present at 12:10<br>
<br>
<b>Bruce Tonkin</b> chaired this teleconference. <br>
<br>
<b>Bruce Tonkin</b> welcomed <b>Maureen Cubberley</b> as an observer, the new
Nominating Committee member, who will take office after the Cape Town
meeting.
<br>
<br>
<b>Item 1: <a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-gnso-21oct04.htm">Approval
of the Agenda</a></b><br>
<br>
Agenda approved<br>
<b>Lucy Nichols</b> requested an update from the ICANN staff on the WIPO
document<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Item 2: Approval of the <a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-09sep04.htm">Minutes
of 9 September 2004</a><br>
<br>
Ken Stubbs </b>moved the adoption of the <a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-09sep04.htm">Minutes
of 9 September 2004</a><br>
<br>
The motion carried.<br>
<br>
<b>Decision 1: The <a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-09sep04.htm">Minutes
of 9 September 2004</a> were adopted<br>
</b><b><br>
Item 3:</b> <a
href="http://www.icann.org/tlds/gtld-initialreport-registryapproval.htm">Draft
Initial Report</a> on procedure for use by ICANN in considering requests for
consent and related contractual amendments to allow changes in the
architecture
operation of a gTLD registry. <br>
Bruce Tonkin reported that the reviewed document would be available mid
November
as ICANN General Counsel and staff were incorporating GNSO Council proposals
and undertaking a legal review to ensure its implementability.<br>
<br>
</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Item 4: New gTLD strategy implementation see: <br>
http://www.icann.org/topics/gtld-strategy-area.html </font></b></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Bruce Tonkin</b> reported that
on <a href="http://www.icann.org/topics/gtld-strategy-area.html">30 September
2004, a paper was posted on the ICANN website</a> "Strategy:
Introduction
of New Generic Top-Level Domains" which outlined a proposed strategy for
the implementation of issues such as: International Domain Names at the top
level, how names should be</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif">
</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">allocated, different
types
of business models, and whether sponsored or unsponsored. It was further
intended
to seek input from the Security committee, Root Server Committee and Internet
Architecture Board, obtain papers from the Organization for Economic
Co-operation
and Development (OECD) and the At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC). The ICANN
staff will develop a report by 31 December 2004 that combines into a single
document the issues identified by groups such as OECD, SSAC, RSSAC, IETF, and
WIPO.<br>
<b>Kurt Pritz </b>commented that the strategy recognized:<br>
- the complexity of the issues, <br>
- the difficulty of aligning timelines <br>
- the rapidly changing environment and landscape for decisions and
implementation
<br>
The best way to fashion the strategy was to develop a flexible process taking
into consideration the changing environment.<br>
A feature is to involve the GNSO at 2 places,<br>
- review of the strategy <a
href="http://www.icann.org/tlds/new-gtld-strategy.pdf">document</a><br>
- input </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">into the
implementation
of a procedure for the designation of gTLDs during 2005.<br>
</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <br>
</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Taking into account the
narrow time lines and the possibility that the GNSO Council might not be able
to provide input to the ICANN Board by January 2005, through a policy
development
process (pdp); <br>
</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bruce Tonkin
</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">proposed
inviting a group of GNSO Council volunteers to study the process, determine
where GNSO Council input should be provided, the timelines required, and the
best way for the process to work post 31 December 2004</font>.<font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Item 5: Update on WHOIS:</font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Marilyn Cade </font></b><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">reported
that Whois task force 1 & 2 were currently discussing 3 topics:<br>
1. Progress was being made on conspicuous notice, and it was being debated
whether
it should be conspicuous notice and consent. <br>
2. Procedure to deal with national conflicts <br>
3. Tiered access. <br>
Participation was reported to be fairly consistent except for the Business
constituency.<br>
</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Ken Stubbs </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">reported that
Whois task force 3 draft recommendations needed further work to attain the
necessary
level of consensus. </font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Bruce Tonkin </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">commented
that Whois task force 3 mailing list traffic indicated areas where the
Registrar
and the Intellectual Property Constituency representatives
disagreed</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">,
</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and that it would be
particularly
useful if the other constituencies would provide their input on the mailing
list.</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Barbara Roseman </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and
<b>Ross
Rader</b> reiterated the importance of all the constituencies contributing
input.<br>
<b>Barbara Roseman</b> added that the disagreeing parties might be able to
reach
agreement on language on a small issue, but on the much larger questions they
did not reflect a consensus building process. <br>
<b>Marilyn Cade</b> commented that consensus was determined by a vote at the
Council level. The job of the task forces was to provide a report, and most
task forces did vote to support the policy recommendations put forward<b>.<br>
Bruce Tonkin</b> urged constituency representatives on the task forces give
input on what they supported or did not support</font><b><font face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif">
</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and encouraged the task
force as a whole to identify where there was or was not
agreement.</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<br>
Bruce Tonkin </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">recommended
that for the Cape Town ICANN meeting, the Whois task forces 1/2 and 3: <br>
- attempt to provide recommendations with a reasonable degree of finality and
consensus which could be presented in a public forum to solicit public input.
<br>
- schedule task force meetings in Cape Town to focus on particular topics
where
ongoing work would be required.</font><br>
<b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Item 6: GNSO Council review by ICANN Board <br>
- Council to do self-review as input to external consultant <br>
Bruce Tonkin </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">reported
that
the ICANN</font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Board, on 18
October,
considered and approved the <a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/pdf00002.pdf">Terms
of Reference for the GNSO Council review</a> <br>
In summary:<br>
1. Policy achievements. <br>
Has the GNSO Council contributed to ICANN policy development?<br>
§ Analysis. List the policy achievements of the GNSO as administered by the
Council indicating in a tabular form: <br>
o what has been done <br>
o what is work in progress <br>
o how was this done (task force, committee of the whole etc) <br>
o what has resulted in change to the contracts of registries or registrars.
<br>
o what has resulted in other types of change (guidelines etc.) <br>
§ Do these policies have relevance for ICANN?<br>
<br>
2. Outreach, geographic diversity and transparency. <br>
Has the GNSO Council contributed to other ICANN core values such as outreach,
bottom-up consensus based policy development, geographical diversity and
transparency?<br>
<br>
3. PDP timelines. Are the timelines relevant?<br>
<br>
4. Staff support for policy development.<br>
Has there been effective ICANN staff support for policy development?<br>
<br>
5. Policy implementation and compliance. <br>
After the completion of policy development has policy implementation,
compliance
and outcome been effective?<br>
<br>
6. Demand-based raising of policy issues. <br>
Is the current mechanism of alerting the GNSO Council to new policy issues
effective?
<br>
<br>
7. Voting pattern.<br>
Does the Council vote as a consensual body?<br>
<br>
8. Number of constituency representatives.<br>
Has the presence of three rather than two representatives per constituency
helped
or hindered the GNSO Council?<br>
<br>
9. Communication to the ICANN community. <br>
Are the enabling mechanisms for GNSO Council outreach effective?</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Bruce Tonkin</b> commented that
ICANN would appoint an external consultant to produce a report and suggested
that Council do a review of the 9 topics and make recommendations as input to
the consultants report.<br>
</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Item 8: GNSO Council chair election <br>
- Bruce Tonkin's term expires 20 November 2004 <br>
- recommend start two week nomination period <br>
- hold election at next Council meeting <br>
</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<b>Bruce Tonkin</b> responding to a comment by <b>Ken Stubbs</b>, referred to
the <a
href="http://www.icann.org/general/archive-bylaws/bylaws-13oct03.htm#X">ICANN
bylaws</a> Section 3. GNSO Council:<br>
7. The GNSO Council shall select the GNSO Chair, for a term the GNSO Council
specifies but not longer than one year, by written ballot or by action at a
meeting. Any such selection must have affirmative votes comprising a majority
of the votes of all the members of the GNSO Council. <br>
<br>
<b>Marilyn Cade</b>, seconded by<b> Cary Karp</b> proposed a procedural
motion:<br>
To proceed with the election of chair for the GNSO Council and open
nominations
starting 21 October 2004 for a two week period, ending 4 November 2004 at 12
noon UTC. <br>
At the next GNSO Council meeting a vote will be held for the election of the
chair. <br>
The term of office will be for one year. <br>
<br>
The procedural motion carried. 21 votes in favour, 4 people did not vote, 2
abstentions <br>
<br>
<b>Decision 2:<br>
To proceed with the election of chair for the GNSO Council and open
nominations
starting 21 October 2004 for a two week period, ending 4 November 2004 at 12
noon UTC. <br>
At the next GNSO Council meeting a vote will be held for the election of the
chair. <br>
The term of office will be for one year. </b><br>
<br>
<b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Item 7: GNSO Council elections
- terms of some Council members expire at end of 2004 annual general meeting
<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif">Bruce
Tonkin</font></font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
commented that <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif">Council
wished to stay with 3 representatives per constituency (see <a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-14aug03.shtml">GNSO
Council meeting, 14 August 2003</a>) and that it would be considered as part
of the review process.</font></font></font></font><b><font face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></b> <br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Bruce Tonkin</b> proposed
that volunteers from the Council draft a self review of Council, write their
own recommendations as an outcome of that review, and those recommendations
would be conveyed to the Board.<br>
<b><br>
Bruce Tonkin</b> clarified that according to the <a
href="http://www.icann.org/general/archive-bylaws/bylaws-13oct03.htm#X">ICANN
bylaws</a>, Section 4. Periodic Review of ICANN Structure and Operations, the
GNSO Council review should be complete by the Cape Town meeting.<br>
<b>Kurt Pritz </b>clarified that on 31 October 2003, in <a
href="http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-31oct03.htm">Tunisia
the ICANN Board</a> adopted the following resolution:<br>
Response to GNSO Council Request to Maintain Three Representatives per
Constituency
<br>
Whereas, the GNSO Council has requested on 14 August 2003, that the change to
the number of constituency representatives on the GNSO Council remain
unchanged
at three (3) representatives per constituency instead of two (2)
representatives
per constituency as is scheduled to occur at the end of this 2003 Annual
Meeting.
<br>
Whereas, the GNSO Council?s predecessor organization DNSO Names Council
requested
on 1 August 2002, that the GNSO Council be made up of three (3)
representatives
per constituency. <br>
Whereas, Article I, Section 2 (4) sets out as a core value that: -"Seeking
and
supporting broad, informed participation reflecting the functional,
geographic,
and cultural diversity of the Internet at all levels of policy development
and
decision-making.?<br>
Whereas, Article XX, Section 5 (8), in setting out the originally proposed
transition
that: "In the absence of further action on the topic by the New Board, each
of the GNSO constituencies shall select two representatives to the GNSO
Council?."
<br>
Whereas, the Board wishes to take action in support of the GNSO Council and
in response to the GNSO Council?s request. <br>
Resolved [03.164] to change the transition article (Article XX) to allow
three
representatives per constituency on the GNSO Council until the end of the
ICANN
annual meeting 2004; <br>
Resolved [03.165] to perform a review of the GNSO Council in or around July
2004 which should include among other aspects of the review criteria, an
analysis
of the efficacy of having three representatives from each constituency on the
GNSO Council. <br>
<br>
<b>Kurt Pritz</b> commented on two points:<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">if something were presented
to the Board to consider before Cape Town it should be done with reference to
the resolution taken on <a
href="http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-31oct03.htm">31
October 2003</a> <br>
Board papers were generally due two weeks before the Board meeting, so the
due
date would be the first week in November<br>
<br>
<b>Bruce Tonkin</b> proposed that the GNSO create its own set of
recommendations,
which would include the 3 versus 2 representatives per constituency in
accordance
with Council's wish, and present those to the Board for the Cape Town
meeting.<br>
<br>
</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Item 9: Update on
planning
for ICANN meeting in Cape Town <br>
<br>
Kurt Pritz</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> and <b>Bruce
Tonkin</b> outlined the program</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif">:<br>
<br>
</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Tuesday 30 November
2004</b><br>
Board and ICANN staff meetings</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tuesday 30 November 2004 -
afternoon
<br>
- GNSO Review <br>
<br>
<b>Wednesday 1 December 2004</b><br>
WSIS <br>
Welcome <br>
- to define the projected outcome of the meetings <br>
-introductory remarks by ministers <br>
<br>
IDN workshop on African languages </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">GNSO task forces: <br>
WHOIS Task Forces <br>
Council group to consider the approval of new registry services<br>
<br>
<b>Thursday 2 December 2004</b><br>
7:30 - 9:00 GNSO breakfast<br>
Constituency Day <br>
Official reception <br>
<b><br>
Friday 3 December 2004 </b><br>
<br>
8:30 10:30 GNSO public forum to raise recommendations from Whois task forces
and Council group to solicit public feed back <br>
10:30 12:30 GNSO Council meeting<br>
<br>
Afternoon session: ICANN public forum<br>
<br>
<b>Saturday 4 December 2004</b><br>
Public Forum continuation<br>
<br>
<b>Sunday 5 December 2004 </b><br>
ICANN Board meeting<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>Suzanne Sene</b> suggested that the GAC working group meet with the
GNSO</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Council and Whois task
force chairs on Wednesday 1 December for a lunch meeting</font><b><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">.<br>
<br>
Item 10: AOB <br>
<br>
1. Update regarding WIPO II Report<br>
Lucy Nichols </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif">who</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">requested</font><b><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">an update regarding the
WIPO ll report</font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">articulated
her concern that WIPO had recommended to ICANN that</font><b><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> certain changes be made
to the UDRP as set out in WIPO ll</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif">.
</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The ICANN Board
directed
the General Counsel to investigate and analyze the legalities on the
relationship
between WIPO and ICANN. The working group issued a report indicating that
there
was no </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">consensus on the
recommendations
made by WIPO </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and sent it to
the President.</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Concern was
expressed that according to a Board resolution the President and the staff
are
supposed to give a recommendation to the Board before the Cape Town
meeting.<br>
<br>
Discussion indicated that the GNSO Council should make it clear that there
had
been no consensus on the WIPO ll recommendations and it would be difficult to
make any recommendation to the Board.<br>
<br>
<b>Bruce Tonkin</b> proposed sending a request from Council to the ICANN
staff,
Kurt Pritz and John Jeffrey to respond to issue. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>2. <a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg00597.html">Staff
Update Report</a></b><br>
<b>Bruce Tonkin</b> referred to the report <b>Paul Verhoef </b>communicated
in response to questions raised during the GNSO Council meeting on <a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-09sep04.htm">September
9, 2004</a>:<br>
<br>
<b>a. Staff recruitment</b></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The recruitment of the staff
position
relevant to the GNSO is progressing well. To date some one hundred
applications
have been received and the process of initial screening has started with the
aim to create a shortlist for subsequent interviews. The goal is to try and
finalize the recruitment during the first weeks of November and depending on
the availability of the chosen candidates, they should be able to commence
early
in 2005. The request for applications will be withdrawn from the ICANN
website
and the various job boards during these days. <br>
<b>Bruce Tonkin</b> reiterated that some Council members would like to be
involved
in the selection process.<br>
<br>
<b>b. Strategic Plan</b><br>
<br>
ICANN's first ever strategic plan is nearing internal completion. The ICANN
staff fully realizes the importance of releasing a credible, well though-out,
and comprehensive plan which responds to the requests from the community to
obtain a better insight in the planning of how ICANN's mission and mandate
will
be implemented on a longer-term basis, in order to set a proper bench-mark
for
future plans. The strategic plan is foreseen to be introduced shortly to the
Board and then be posted within the next few weeks. <br>
<b><br>
c. GNSO Review</b><br>
At its meeting on 18 October, the ICANN Board has approved the Terms of
Reference
concerning the Review of the GNSO Council that were jointly developed between
a number of Council members and the staff. ICANN staff will now proceed
swiftly
with the search for an external consultant for the role specified in the
Terms
of Reference. <br>
Bruce Tonkin requested Council members to come forward with names of of
potential
candidates for such an external consultancy role.<br>
<b><br>
d. Performance of the GNSO Council</b><br>
As regards the report on the performance of the GNSO Council that Dr. Paul
Twomey
had retained a consultant, Dr. Liz Williams to prepare earlier this year, a
public version of the report will be posted by the end of October. <br>
<b><br>
</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Bruce Tonkin</b> <b>declared
the
GNSO meeting closed and thanked everybody for participating.<br>
The meeting ended: 14:03 UTC.</b></font></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Next GNSO Council
teleconference
will be held on Thursday 18 November 2004 </b><b>at 19:00 </b><b>
UTC</b><br>
see: <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/">Calendar</a></font><br>
</li>
</ul>
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