[council] GNSO Council extract from draft minutes 1 September 2005

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Dear Council Members,

Please find an extract of the draft GNSO Council minutes of the
teleconference held on 1 September 2005 which notes the decision taken
by Council with respect to an approach for considering the development 
of a comprehensive policy for new gTLDs.
Please let me know if there are any changes you would like made.
Thank you very much.

Kind regards,
Glen


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

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<p><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">GNSO COUNCIL 
TELECONFERENCE 1 SEPTEMBER 2005 - EXTRACT FROM THE DRAFT MINUTES 
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1 September 2005 </font> </p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proposed <a 
href="http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-gnso-1sep05.htm";>agenda and 
related documents</a> </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>List of attendees:</b><br>
  Philip Sheppard - Commercial &amp; Business Users C. - absent - apologies<br>
  Marilyn Cade - Commercial &amp; Business Users C. <br>
  Grant Forsyth - Commercial &amp; Business Users C<br>
  Greg Ruth - ISCPC <br>
  Antonio Harris - ISCPC   <br>
  Tony Holmes - ISCPC<br>
  Thomas Keller- Registrars - absent - apologies proxy to Ross Rader/Bruce 
Tonkin <br>
  Ross Rader - Registrars   <br>
  Bruce Tonkin - Registrars <br>
  Ken Stubbs - gTLD registries <br>
  Philip Colebrook - gTLD registries <br>
  Cary Karp - gTLD registries <br>
  Lucy Nichols - Intellectual Property Interests C - absent - apologies - proxy 
to Niklas Lagergren/Kiyoshi Tsuru <br>
  Niklas Lagergren - Intellectual Property Interests C<br>
  Kiyoshi Tsuru - Intellectual Property Interests C. - absent <br>
  Robin Gross - Non Commercial Users C. - absent <br>
  Norbert Klein - Non Commercial Users C. - absent <br>
  Alick Wilson   </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- Nominating 
Committee appointee - absent  - apologies - proxy to Bruce Tonkin <br>
  Maureen Cubberley - Nominating Committee appointee  - absent - apologies  <br>
  Avri Doria -  Nominating Committee appointee 
  </font></p>
<p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 12 Council Members<br>
  <br>
  <b>ICANN Staff</b><br>
  Olof Nordling - Manager, Policy Development Coordination  <br>
  Maria Farrell - ICANN GNSO Policy Support Officer - absent <br>
  Liz Williams - Senior Policy Counsellor <br>
  Glen de Saint Géry - GNSO Secretariat <br>
  <br>
  <br>
  <b>GNSO Council Liaisons</b><br>
 Suzanne Sene - GAC Liaison <br>
 Bret Fausett - acting ALAC Liaison - absent<br>
 <br>
  Michael Palage - ICANN Board member <br>
  <br>
  <strong>I</strong></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
  <a href="http://gnso-audio.icann.org/GNSO-Council-20050109.mp3";>MP3 Recording
  </a></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Quorum present at 14:05 CET.<br>
  <br>
  <b>Bruce Tonkin</b> chaired this teleconference. <br>
  <br>
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<strong>Bruce Tonkin </strong>clarified that  the outcome of the GNSO 
teleconference would be conveyed, as a response that had been requested  via 
the</font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">CEO, Dr. Paul Twomey, to 
the ICANN Board. The following step would be to work on the detail of the 
proposed approach to moving forward with the development of policy for new 
gtlds and report  the Council's progress to the Board.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Bruce Tonkin</strong> 
proposed seeking a high level decision that the GNSO Council would develop  two 
policy development processes  with the need to engage outside experts to assist 
in the two separate processes.<br>
  <br>
  1. A policy development process which would look at the issues including 
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  - whether to introduce gTLDs, <br>
  - the criteria for approving applications for new gTLDs <br>
  - the allocation method, assuming that there was a limit to how many gTLDs 
could be introduced at once <br>
  - the key contractual conditions for those TLDs which might include 
conditions such as: escrow policies, obligation to use an ICANN accredited 
registrar  etc. <br>
  <br>
  2. A  policy development process to be undertaken in collaboration with the 
ccNSO for the introduction of IDNs at the root level.<br>
  <br>
  3. The expectation that the evaluation of the previous round of new gTLDs 
would continue and the remaining work would be completed.<br>
  <br>
  4. The GNSO will be seeking a budget to obtain expert advice to assist in 
these policy development initiatives.<br>
  <strong><br>
  Bruce Tonkin</strong> called for a decision and council unanimously decided, 
by voice to support the decision. <br>
  <br>
  <strong>In discussion:</strong>  <br>
  <strong>Marilyn Cade </strong>supported the approach with the caveat to the 
Board that additional resources, in the nature of expert advice, were 
needed.<br>
  <strong>Cary Karp</strong> cautioned in responding with regard to 
developments in the IDN components relating to the cc
development. It should be emphasised that it was not only issues specific to 
the gTLD situation and thus a clear platform would be required as reference to 
provide advice to the entire situation as it would unfold across the TLD space 
in IDNs in a global situation.<br>
<strong>Ross Rader</strong> suggested that a compilation of work on IDNs, 
similar to that which was done on new gTLDs should be undertaken. <br>
<br> 
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<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: 16: 00 CET. </b></font></p>
<ul>
  <li> 
    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Next GNSO Council 
</b><strong>Teleconference Thursday 8 September 2005 at 12:00 UTC. </strong><br>
      see: <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/";>Calendar</a></font><br>
  </li>
</ul>
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