Evan, Jacqueline, John, Veronica and José, Thanks for the kind words. It was a lot of work and I take some pride in being part of it, but the effort involved a great cooperative effort from a number of people, including those from the Registrar and Registry Constituencies who were made out to be the devils during a lot of this process. And I have to note that the Registry Constituency, which strongly objected to the process followed by the GNSO group that drafted and presented this motion, ultimately supported the motion based on its merits (with all three of its votes). See below regarding John's question. At 19/04/2008 12:54 PM, John L wrote:
appended below. It was passed with a supermajority (greater than 2/3), so the Board must adopt it as a Consensus Policy unless a supermajority of the Board oppose it (highly unlikely).
Congrats. This is actually quite a reasonable outcome.
Do we know when the board must adopt it? History suggests that they will drag their feet as long as they can.
Well, I don't have the history with ICANN that you do, but a lot of GNSO and ICANN staff folks moved heaven and earth (for non-English speakers, see http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/move+heaven+and+earth) to get this motion passed in sufficient time to get it to the Board for their June meeting in Paris. And I have no doubt that Wendy will do what she can to be sure it happens. Alan