As these minutes indicate, the Board determined to send the "domain reservation" issue to the GNSO Council for Council response. While several on the Board would have favored Board action, others felt it was more appropriate to get GNSO consensus before taking action. ALAC should now share its concerns with the GNSO Council, as input to their consideration. We can also make further requests to the Board, if we feel that stalemate within the GNSO is delaying what we still consider to require emergency action. Despite the lack of immediate Board action, I think it was useful for ALAC to send this request, as it put the issue on the Board's agenda and will no doubt lead to further discussion. Thanks, Danny, for initiating it. I'd recommend this approach for other items of registry or registrar activity that affect the at-large public. --Wendy Danny Younger wrote:
Board Meeting Minutes have been posted: http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-27mar08.htm
The section regarding the ALAC Letter to the Board is reproduced below:
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The Chair determined that emergency action is not required today but the matter will be referred to the GNSO for additional information or policy development if necessary, but not an emergency action.
-- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org 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/