At-Large may be interested in the preliminary minutes of the Jan. 23 Board meeting. <http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-23jan08.htm> In particular, note this resolution on the AGP, aimed at ending the abuses of domain tasting: "... Whereas, the Board believes that the withdrawal of ICANN's waiver of ICANN's non-refundable transaction fee to the deletion of names within the AGP will substantially end the practice of abusing the AGP; THEREFORE, the Board resolves (2008.01.04) to encourage ICANN's budgetary process to include fees for all domains added, including domains added during the AGP, and encourages community discussion involved in developing the ICANN budget,subject to both Board approval and registrar approval of this fee." In addition, an ALAC review Working Group was constituted and a contract is being negotiated with Westlake Consulting. You will see the Board also discussed IDN ccTLDs and gTLDs and new gTLDs and accepted the GNSO's recommendations on contractual conditions (PDP Feb-06) Thanks to board and staff for producing such prompt and descriptive minutes. --Wendy -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [alerts] ICANN News Alert -- Preliminary Report for the 23 January 2008 Special Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:47:13 -0800 From: ICANN News Alert <ICANN-Alerts@icann.org> Reply-To: ICANN-Alerts@icann.org To: <alerts@greenriver.icann.org> ICANN <http://www.icann.org/> News Alert http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-23jan08.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preliminary Report for the 23 January 2008 Special Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors Formal Minutes are still to be approved by the ICANN Board during its next Board Meeting 28 January 2008 ICANN has posted to its website a Preliminary Report <http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-23jan08.htm> of the Board meeting held on 23 January 2008. The Board will consider the Preliminary Report in adopting formal Minutes during its next board meeting. ICANN's Board meets regularly (approximately once per month). The Board is committed to being as transparent and accountable as possible. As soon as possible following each meeting, ICANN staff posts a preliminary report of the meeting. The report outlines detailed discussion from the board meeting and demonstrates how decisions are reached. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Sign up for ICANN's Monthly Magazine <http://www.icann.org/magazine/>* To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please visit http://www.icann.org/newsletter If you have questions or comments about this mailing list, send an email to ICANN-Alerts@icann.org <mailto:ICANN-Alerts@icann.org> -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org phone: +1.914.374.0613 // office: 617.373.7331 Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/