RE: [council] Motion on Whois studies

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My opinion: there is very minimal chance that 'we would be in position
to take a vote on a motion to request funding information on studies'.

As I shared in our 16 Oct meeting, the RyC is in the process of
finalizing a very detailed analysis with recommendations for studies to
pursue further and we plan to submit that to the Council on 29 October.
It is possible that other constituencies or advisory groups or
individuals will have submitted recommendations by that time as well.
So I think our time in Cairo will be focused on reviewing and discussing
those submissions and mapping out an approach for identifying studies
for which we want Staff to prepare cost estimates.  But I believe it
will be a fairly involved process that we will not be able to complete
until after Cairo.

I do agree with assigning 'prominence to the item on the schedule' but I
do not believe we will be ready to make a decision.

Chuck

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Avri Doria
> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 12:38 PM
> To: Council GNSO
> Subject: [council] Motion on Whois studies
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> While putting together the agenda for the Cairo week, I was 
> wondering whether there was any chance we would be in 
> position to take a vote on a motion to request funding 
> information on studies.
> 
> If so, we need to have a draft of the motion on the table as 
> soon as possible for people to consider and discuss with 
> their constituencies.  I know a lot of work is still ongoing 
> in some of the constituencies, but this activity has been 
> pending a while and we are overdue on our schedule.  At the 
> very least we need a definitive view of where we are in the 
> process and a clear schedule of when we will take the next step.
> 
> I have assigned some prominence to the item on the schedule 
> in the expectation that we work to do it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> a.
> 
>