Wendy and all, The "Domain name reservation" issues has been around for at least 3 years now, and was originally brought up as an issue under the old DNSO. Personally I believe the more important issue that is related is the "Domain name warehousing" issue, especially in the cases of registries and registrars using "Domain name reservation" as a means by which the can have an unfair advantage over any registrant or any prospective future registrant in registering those Domain Names. I however can understand on several levels why the ICANN Board wants input from the GNSO council before rendering any decision in regards to the DNS, although there should be a mechnisim by which emergancy decisions need to be made from time to time. Seems to me, and our members that sense so many issues have been unaddressed for so long as Danny and many others have recognized and elaborated upon on multipul occasions over the past 5+ years, are now needing emergancy action. -----Original Message-----

From: Wendy Seltzer <wendy@seltzer.com> Sent: Apr 3, 2008 5:59 AM To: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@yahoo.com>, At-Large Worldwide <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [At-Large] Board Meeting Minutes

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:

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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.

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