Dear ALAC members, FYI, below is a message received this morning from the GNSO Staff. I was the designated person from the ALAC to work on this committee. If and when the GNSO reinstates the drafting committee, let's review the ALAC position and appointment again as well. For the time being, we can consider the drafting committee work I was assigned to do for the ALAC closed. Bret Begin forwarded message: From: Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@icann.org> Date: June 25, 2008 7:18:15 AM PDT To: "mail=gnso-fr-dt@icann.org" <gnso-fr-dt@icann.org> Subject: [gnso-fr-dt] Front Running motion passed by the GNSO Council 25 June 2008 Dear All, The GNSO Council at its Open Meeting in Paris, today Wednesday, 25 June 2008, unanimously passed the following motion on Front Running: Motion proposed by Avri Doria and seconded by Chuck Gomes Whereas, On 17 March 2008, the ICANN board referred a question about Front Running to the GNSO council, and On 8 May 2008 created a drafting team to define a pre-issues research effort and asked the staff to prepare a response to the questions, and On 29 May 2008 ICANN staff prepared a response http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/front-running-staff-response-to-gnso-co... to the question asked during the 8 May Council meeting, and whereas this report recommended that more information was needed to proceed, and Information is needed to determine whether the changes recommended for the AGP will affect front running, Resolved: The Council puts the drafting team effort on hold until such time as current research efforts are completed. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org -- Bret Fausett (skype me at "lextext") smime.p7s is a digital signature http://www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html -------------------------------------