[council] GNSO Council draft minutes Mar del Plata meeting 6 April 2005

["GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[To: council[at]gnso.icann.org]

Dear Council Members,

Please find the draft minutes of the GNSO Council meeting held in Mar 
del Plata on 6 April 2005.
Please let me know if you would like any changes made.

Thank you.
Kind regards,

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org

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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">6 April  2005. </font> </p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proposed <a 
href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-gnso-06apr05.shtml";>agenda and 
documents
  </a></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>List of attendees:</b><br>
  Philip Sheppard - Commercial &amp; Business users C.<br>
  Marilyn Cade - Commercial &amp; Business users C.<br>
  Grant Forsyth - Commercial &amp; Business users C.- remote participation- 
proxy Marilyn Cade/Philip Sheppard <br>
  Greg Ruth - ISCPC <br>
  Antonio Harris - ISCPC <br>
  Tony Holmes - ISCPC <br>
  Thomas Keller- Registrars <br>
  Ross Rader - Registrars <br>
  Bruce Tonkin - Registrars <br>
  Ken Stubbs - gTLD registries<br>
  Philip Colebrook - gTLD registries - remote participation - proxy to Ken 
Stubbs <br>
  Cary Karp - gTLD registries - proxy to Philip Colebrook/Ken Stubbs <br>
  Lucy Nichols - Intellectual Property Interests C - absent apologies - proxy 
Niklas Lagergren <br>
  Niklas Lagergren - Intellectual Property Interests C  <br>
  Kiyoshi Tsuru - Intellectual Property Interests C. - absent apologies - proxy 
Niklas Lagergren  <br>
  Robin Gross- Non Commercial users C. <br>
  Marc Schneiders - Non Commercial users C. absent, apologies, proxy to Carlos 
Afonso <br>
  Carlos Afonso - Non Commercial users C. <br>
  Alick Wilson  -  remote participation - proxy to Maureen Cubberley <br>
  Maureen Cubberley </font><br>
  <br>
  <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">16 Council Members <br>
  <br>
 Bret Fausett - ALAC Liaison <br>
  <br>
  Olof Nordling -  ICANN Manager, Policy Development Coordination <br>
  Maria Farrell -ICANN Policy Officer<br>
  John Jeffrey - ICANN General Counsel<br>
  Paul Verhoef - 
  ICANN Vice President, Policy Development Support <br>
  Glen de Saint Géry - GNSO Secretariat<br>
  <br>
  <a 
href="http://www.icann.org/meetings/mardelplata/captioning-gnso-meeting-06apr05.htm";>Real
 Time Captioning </a><br>
  Quorum present at 10:30 CET,<br>
  <br>
  <b>Bruce Tonkin </b> chaired the meeting. <br>
  Item 1: Approval of <a 
href="http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-gnso-06apr05.shtml";>Agenda</a><br>
  <br>
Bruce Tonkin proposed the following additions to the agenda:<br>
Item 3(a) Registry services approval agreement <br>
Item 3 (b) <a 
href="http://www.icann.org/tlds/dotnet-reassignment/draft-net-agreement-9mar05.pdf";>.NET
 agreement <br>
</a><BR>
  Item 2: Approve the minutes of <BR>
GNSO Council teleconference<br>
  <b><a href="http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-17mar05.htm";>17 
March 2005 </a><br>
  Ken Stubbs</b>  moved the adoption of the <a 
href="http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-17mar05.htm";>17 March 
2005 minutes </a><br>
  <br>
  The motion was carried.  Philip Sheppard and Tom Keller abstained.<br>
  <br>
  <b>Decision 1: <a 
href="http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-17mar05.htm";>Minutes 
      of the teleconference held on March 17, 2005</a> adopted.<br>
      <br>
  </b><strong>Item 3: Ratify vote for ICANN Board seat #14 (currently held by 
Michael Palage)</strong><br>
  The Secretariat reported that all email ballots were received by the close of 
voting on March 31, 2005 and Michael Palage was unanimously re-elected.<br>
.<br>
  A <a 
href="http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg00872.html";>summary
 of the email ballot results</a> was posted to the council list on April 4, 
2005.<br>
  <br>
<strong>Bruce Tonkin</strong> proposed a  vote in favour of supporting the 
email ballot results as received by the Secretariat to ratify the 
vo</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">te.<br> 
<br>
  Unanimously in favour. (Proxy votes for Lucy Nichols, Kiyoshi Tsuru, Marc 
Schneiders and Cary Karp.)<br>
  <strong><br>
  Michael Palage</strong> thanked the Council for their vote of confidence and 
looked forward to having the opportunity of further serving not only the 
Council but also the ICANN community.<br>
  <br>
  <strong>Decision 2. The Council ratified the email vote unanimously in favour 
of Michael Palage being elected for a three year term, until 6 months after the 
annual general meeting 2007, for ICANN Board seat 14. <br>
  </strong><br>
  <strong>Item 3(a) Registry services approval agreement <br>
  Bruce Tonkin</strong> gave a summary of the registry services approval 
process  found in the draft dot net agreement as it related to the policy 
development process.  Olof Nordling has produced a<a 
href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/review-process-registry-change-requests25apr05.pdf";>
 diagram</a> of the process in the dot net agreement. Bruce urged Council 
members to read the actual <a 
href="http://www.icann.org/tlds/dotnet-reassignment/draft-net-agreement-9mar05.pdf";>dot
 net agreement text</a> and submit comments via the <a 
href="http://www.icann.org/tlds/net-rfp/net-rfp-public-comments.htm";>public 
comment list</a>. The dot net agreement defined security and stability and 
provided a legal structure which could serve as a base for further work by the 
Council on the approval of new registry services. <br>
  It was agreed to put the issue on the next Council meeting agenda and to work 
with the staff in developing an initial report. <br>
  <strong><br>
  Item 3 (b)<a 
href="http://www.icann.org/tlds/dotnet-reassignment/draft-net-agreement-9mar05.pdf";>
 .NET AGREEMENT</a></strong><br>
  <strong>Philip Sheppard</strong> informed the Council he felt it would be 
inappropriate to propose a formal resolution regarding the concerns he raised 
on the dot net procedure, posted to the <a 
href="http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg00851.html";>council
 list</a> and the <a 
href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/net-rfp-general/msg00039.html";>public 
comment list,</a> as there was currently a bidding process in operation. 
Members of the ICANN community can respond directly via the public comment list 
established by ICANN for comments on the .net process. <br>
  <BR>
  <strong>Item 4. Strategic Plan for ICANN</strong><BR>
  <strong>Marilyn Cade </strong>thanked Council for the supporting the 
Amsterdam consultation and proposed that council should develop a strategic 
plan of its own and work with the other supporting organizations on a bottom up 
process to provide  input to ICANN for the  Strategic Plan. <br>
  <strong>Bruce Tonkin</strong> agreed and ascertained a high level of 
agreement by the council with a show of hands.
  <br>
  <br>
  <strong>Item 5. Operating plan for ICANN<BR>
  Bruce Tonkin</strong> commented that council  needed a process of planning 
for policy development. Some of the important issues, which council agreed on 
that should be considered during  the next two years, were Whois, new TLDs, the 
Strategic Plan, the Registry service process, transfers and options for deleted 
names.<br>
  <strong>Philip Sheppard</strong> commented that <a 
href="http://icann.org/presentations/gnso-proposal-deleting-names-MdP-06apr05.pdf";>options
 for the deleted names</a> had been presented during the <a 
href="http://www.icann.org/meetings/mardelplata/captioning-gnso-forum-06apr05.htm";>GNSO
 public Forum </a>and that council had formally requested an issues report from 
staff at the <a 
href="http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-13jan05.htm";>January 13, 
2005</a>, meeting.<br>
  In response to the public comment received from Danny Younger in the GNSO 
Public Forum,  <strong>Bruce Tonkin</strong> proposed that ICANN staff provide 
an update on whether registrars are meeting the escrow provisions of the 
registrar accreditation agreement. <br>
  <br> 
  <strong>Item 6. Proposed process for developing future strategic and 
operating plans</strong><BR>
  <strong>Marilyn Cade</strong> raised the issue of liaison appointments as 
part of the future strategic planning.<br>
  <strong>Ken Stubbs</strong> added that a regular reporting format about the 
activities of the other organizations should be developed. <br>
  <strong>Bruce Tonkin</strong> commented that the functioning of the  
supporting organization structure across ICANN should be part of the strategic 
planning.<br>
  <strong>Maureen Cubberley</strong> commented that there should be overlap in 
liaison functions so that some people who might choose to get involved with the 
strategic planning process would bring their expertise to other specific areas 
to form a core  of representatives from each of the groups. <br>
  <strong>Bruce Tonkin</strong> commented on the nominating committee process 
and that looking at the organizational structure in the broader sense, it was 
useful for the council to have people who had played a range of different roles 
which helped to link the different organizations.<br>
  <BR>
  <strong>Item 7. Any other business</strong></font>       <font face="Arial, 
Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br>
  Bruce Tonkin</b> thanked <strong>Tony Harris</strong> in particular as a 
Council member involved in the organization of the Mar del Plata, for all that 
he had done to make the meeting a success.<br>
  <br>
  <b>Bruce Tonkin</b> <b>declared GNSO Council meeting closed, thanked 
everybody for attending 
    as well as Grant Forsyth, Phil Colebrook and Alick Wilson for their remote 
participation.</b><br>
    <b><br>
The meeting ended: 11:54 ( local time)</b></font> </p>
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    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Next GNSO Council 
teleconference 
      May 12, 2005 at 12:00 UTC. </b><br>
      see: <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/";>Calendar</a></font><br>
    
  </li>
</ul>
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