I am currently at the GNSO Wrap-Up session and will join the ALAC Wrap-up part-way through the meeting. My Report ========= I has been a busy but relatively calm meeting, at least compared to the last one. In terms of immediate actions required, the proposed ALAC statement on the .com agreement is the only one. The most interesting session was a review of a number of GNSO issues with ICANN staff. It was a "jaw-dropping" session in that there were a number of issues that most of us in the room found outrageous. The two main issues were: - ICANN doing significant work related to the implementation of the Trademark Clearinghouse, including hiring a consultant to develop EPS (Extensible Provisioning Protocol - the mechanism used for communication the registries) extensions, all without any involvement of or communication with registries or registrars - the ones who are the experts in EPS and who will have to implement the results. - The URS, one of the key protections that ICANN has been claiming to provide security to trademark holders, has been found to be un-implementable at the specified cost. Although the URS was developed by a GNSO body (with involvement of ALAC), but the only notification of this problem was that there was a line in the proposed budget that ICANN was providing funds to hold "summits" to attempt to resolve the issue, all without any explicit involvement of the GNSO. - Digital Archery - well understood that the Board did not consult at all. There has been considerable discussion on issues related to the Red Cross/Red Crystal/International Olympic Committee, Intergovernmental Organizations and the wider non-governmental international organizations (and charities in particular). There are multiple activities going on and this is an issue that will continue for some time. It is quite controversial within At-Large and I would strongly suggest more ALAC/At0Large involvement as the processes go forward. A statement on the open Preliminary Issue Report will be drafted over the next few days (AG, EL, HR). I did not attend the bulk of the open GNSO session yesterday, as I was in the ALAC RoP meeting. I will review the records of the meeting and report on that on the agenda. Alan