Dear All:

Attached are brief summaries of a number of Internet policy issues that are being addressed in the ICANN community's bottom-up policy development structure. This update is provided by ICANN's Policy Staff in response to community requests for periodic summaries of ICANN's policy work. Links to additional information are included in the attached document, and we encourage you to go beyond these brief staff summaries and learn more about the ICANN community's work. Our goal is to maximize transparency and broad community participation in ICANN's policy development activities. We continue to investigate more effective and efficient ways to communicate the relevance, importance and status of ongoing issues to the ICANN community. Comments and suggestions on how we can improve these efforts are most welcome and should be sent to policy-staff@icann.org. This update will be posted on ICANN's website.

Regards,
Denise

Denise Michel
ICANN VP, Policy

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ICANN POLICY UPDATE – 11 February 2008

CONTENTS:

1.   GNSO -- IMPROVEMENTS
2.   GNSO -- DOMAIN NAME TASTING
3.   GNSO -- WHOIS
4.   GNSO -- INTER-REGISTRY TRANSFER POLICY
5.   GNSO -- LEADERSHIP/ELECTION
6.   MULTIPLE ENTITIES -- IDN ccTLDs
7.   CCNSO -- IANA WORKING GROUP
8.   CCNSO -- PARTICIPATION WORKING GROUP
9.   CCNSO -- WORK PLAN
10. CCNSO -- PHISHING SURVEY
11. SSAC -- REPORTS AND STATEMENTS FOR NEW DELHI
12. AT-LARGE -- APRALO PRIORITIES
13. AT-LARGE -- NEW DELHI POLICY AGENDA
14. AT-LARGE -- PARTICIPATION