Re: [council] Issues Report on specified Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy issues

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

This thread brings up the fact hat we did receive the Issue report on  
19 October and given our resolve to meet the time limits in the by- 
laws, we should be discussing the issues report and voting on whether  
to commence a PDP on the issues in the report no later then 3 Nov 2007.
Our schedule is already full for Wednesday and there is nothing on  
that schedule I would feel comfortable either shortening the time on,  
or moving to a later meeting.  We do have a meeting scheduled for  
Thursday 1400-1700 which is slated for an open discussion of input  
from the meetings.  I would like to spend 30 minutes of this 3 hour  
time slot to discuss the issues report and decide on whether to  
initiate the PDP process; i.e. to vote on two motions:
1. Whether to initiate a PDP process as recommended by Staff on page  
22 of the issues report:
> 6.1 Staff has confirmed that the proposed issues are within the  
> scope of
> the policy development process and the GNSO.  It is reasonable from
> the staff’s perspective to expect that greater precision and certainty
> around the terms of the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy would be
> beneficial to the community generally, particularly for  
> registrants, as
> well as those parties (gTLD registries and registrars) who are  
> obligated
> to comply with the policy provisions.  Staff therefore recommends that
> the GNSO Council proceed with a policy development process limited
> to consideration of the issues discussed in this report.
2. Whether to create a Task Force for this purpose.


In the spirit of trying to met the timelines as outlined in the by- 
laws, and as supported by the council in our last meting, I hope  
there is not a strong objection to allowing this vote to occur as  
part of the Thursday meeting.  If there is strong objection, then I  
believe we will need to vote on a specific delay as part of the  
Wednesday meeting.
thanks

a.