Dear Community:

I am pleased to forward you the email below. At-Large has now become the first advisory committee ever to request an Issues Report of the GNSO Council on an issue of policy.

The report is to be delivered to the GNSO Council by 24th May 2007.

The At-Large request was supported by other ICANN constituencies, thanks in large part to the hard work of ALAC GNSO Liaison Alan Greenberg. Having multiple constituencies supporting a request like this is very important to the next steps in the Policy Development Process. The supporting constituencies are:

Registry Constituency
Commercial and Business Constituency
Intellectual Property Constituency

For those of you who are not familiar with the process which the request for an Issues Report is part of, please review the Description of the GNSO and Policy Development Process documents available in 4 languages at: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?lisbon_documents

Begin forwarded message:

Resent-From: Nick Ashton-Hart <nick.ashton-hart@icann.org>
From: Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca>
Date: 9 May 2007 05:11:08 BDT
Resent-To: Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton@spamcop.net>
To: alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org
Subject: [At-Large] Fwd: Request for Issues Report on Domain Tasting


To: GNSO Council <council@gnso.icann.org>
From: Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca>
Subject: Request for Issues Report on Domain Tasting

Dear Council members,

The At-Large Advisory Committee is requesting that ICANN staff prepare an Issues Report on Domain Tasting. The formal request is attached.

According to ICANN Bylaws, no action is required from Council at this time. Once the Issues Report is delivered to the GNSO, Council must then decide whether or not to initiate a PDP.

Alan