October 2004 - council - lists.icann.org

Nominations open for GNSO Council chair
by GNSO SECRETARIAT 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

[To:council[at]gnso.icann.org] The GNSO Council, at its meeting on 21 October 2004, passed a motion to proceed with the election of chair for the GNSO Council and open nominations starting 21 October 2004 for a two week period, ending 4 November 2004 at 12 noon UTC. At the next GNSO Council meeting a vote will be held for the election of the chair. The term of office will be for one year. Please send nominations to the Council list. Thank you. GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org

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GNSO Council teleconf MP3 recording 21 October 2004
by GNSO SECRETARIAT 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

[To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org] [To: liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org; council[at]gnso.icann.org] Please find the MP3 recording of the GNSO Council teleconference, held on Thursday, 21 0ctober 2004 at: http://gnso-audio.icann.org/GNSO-Council-20041021.mp3 Happy listening! -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org

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Terms of reference for the Board's review of the GNSO Council
by Bruce Tonkin 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Hello All, Attached is paper that was discussed by the ICANN Board in its meeting of 18 Oct 2004. See http://www.icann.org/minutes/ The outcomes of this Board meeting should be available soon. Regards, Bruce

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Draft Schedule for GNSO meetings in Cape Town
by Bruce Tonkin 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Hello All, Here is the schedule so far for the meetings associated with the GNSO. Tuesday Nov. 30 * Afternoon - GNSO Council Planning Session Wednesday Dec. 1 * GNSO Task Force Meetings Thursday Dec. 2 * GNSO Council Breakfast * GNSO Constituency Meetings Friday Dec. 3 * GNSO Public Forum - 8:30 to 10:30 * GNSO Council Meeting - 10:30 to 12:30 I am expecting ICANN to release the full agenda shortly - but the above may assist GNSO Council members with their travel plans. Regards, Bruce Tonkin

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Staff Update Report from Paul Verhoef
by Bruce Tonkin 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Staff Update Report from Paul Verhoef to the GNSO Council meeting on 21 October 2004 1. The recruitment of the staff position relevant to the GNSO is progressing well. To date some one hundred applications have been received and the process of initial screening has started with the aim to create a shortlist for subsequent interviews. The goal is to try and finalise the recruitment during the first weeks of November and depending on the availability of the choses candidates, they should be able to commence early in 2005. The request for applications will be withdrawn from the ICANN website and the various job boards during these days. 2. The schedule for the Cape Town meeting is nearing finalisation. Kurt Pritz will provide detailed information on the topic during the Council meeting and inform the Council of the anticipated date of release of the draft schedule. 3. ICANN's first ever strategic plan is nearing internal completion. The ICANN staff fully realises the importance of releasing a credible, well though-out, and comprehensive plan which responds to the requests from the community to obtain a better insight in the planning of how ICANN's mission and mandate will be implemented on a longer-term basis, in order to set a proper bench-mark for future plans. The strategic plan is foreseen to be introduced shortly to the Board and then be posted within the next few weeks. 4. In the context of the New gTLD Strategy, the comment period on the draft strategy is now completed and staff is evaluating the comments received. The final version of the Strategy will be posted as soon as the comments have been processed and the Board has approved the final version. In parallel, staff held meetings with WIPO, IAB and IETF and urged them to provide as soon as possible their expert opinions on the issues involved with the introduction of new gTLD's. Staff foresees to have a meeting in the near future with entities representing consumer interests to review the feasibility of their expert opinion on the matter. As soon as these reports become available they will be posted. 5. At its meeting on 18 October, the ICANN Board has approved the Terms of Reference concerning the Review of the GNSO Council that were jointly developed between a number of Council members and the staff. ICANN staff will now proceed swithly with the search for an external consultant for the role specified in the TOR. Staff would be grateful to receive in the next days from Council members and members of the community further names of potential candidates for such an external consultancy role. 6. As already indicated by email by the Council Chair, staff is expected to finalise shortly the evaluation of the legal issues and operational feasibility of the proposals for the evaluation and implementation of new registry services. 7. As regards the report on the performance of the GNSO Council that Dr. Paul Twomey had retained a consultant, Dr. Liz Williams to prepare earlier this year, a public version of the report will be posted by the end of October. 8. As I will be travelling from Brussels to Marina del Rey at the time of the Council meeting, I would like to express my regrets for not being able to participate but Kurt, Barbara, and Glen will be available to provide any further information and/or assistance. With best regards Paul Verhoef

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RE: [council] Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday 21 October 2004
by Lucy.Nichols＠nokia.com 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hello All- One additional item that should be added to the updates from the Staff -- Status on the WIPO-2 AG's Report. Thanks! Lucy Nichols -----Original Message----- From: owner-council(a)gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org]On Behalf Of ext Cade,Marilyn S - LGCRP Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 5:16 AM To: Bruce Tonkin; council(a)gnso.icann.org; Glen at Secretariat (E-mail) Cc: Kurt Pritz (E-mail); Paul Verhoef (E-mail); John Jeffrey (E-mail); Barbara Roseman (E-mail); Paul Twomey-ICANN (E-mail); Nelle Connell - ICANN (E-mail) Subject: RE: [council] Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday 21 October 2004 Dear Bruce and fellow Councilors Thanks for your update to the agenda for Council. I believe we need a number of quick updates by Staff related to items that affect the work of the Council as well as a couple of items we just need to figure out how to proceed on... I propose that we add in for Staff Updates: Status on recruitment and interviewing schedule for filling policy support staff positions Update on schedule for meetings for Cape Town Status on posting of Strategic Plan Provision/posting of any documents from ICANN to external entities, including OECD, WIPO, any others requesting work/input to the Strategy for new gTLD Implementation as well as the actual responses and reports provided by the external entity. We also need to discuss further how to proceed with the development of criteria for liaisons to other Supporting Organizations in terms of expected roles and responsibilities. Once this is done, we can then proceed with selection of the liaisons. Perhaps this could be a work item for Council at Cape Town. 202-360-1196 c mcade(a)att.com -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Tonkin [mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au] Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 11:58 PM To: council(a)gnso.icann.org Subject: RE: [council] Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday 21 October 2004 Adding an item (8) - Update on planning for ICANN meeting in Cape Town Regards, Bruce > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-council(a)gnso.icann.org > [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin > Sent: Tuesday, 12 October 2004 4:43 PM > To: council(a)gnso.icann.org > Subject: [council] Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday > 21 October 2004 > > Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday 21 October 2004 > > 12:00 UTC (10pm Melbourne, 1pm London, 8am Washington, 5am > Los Angeles) > > Item 1: Approval of minutes of 9 September 2004 > > > Item 2: Draft initial report on procedure for use by ICANN in > considering requests for consent and related contractual amendments to > allow changes in the architecture operation of a gTLD registry. [20 > mins] > > Review latest draft from ICANN staff (not yet available) > > > Item 3: New gtld strategy implementation [20 mins] > See: http://www.icann.org/topics/gtld-strategy-area.html > > > Item 4: Update on WHOIS [20 mins] > > Item 5: GNSO Council review by ICANN Board [20 mins] > - Council to do self-review as input to external consultant > > Item 6: GNSO Council elections > - terms of some Council members expire at end of 2004 annual > general meeting > > Item 7: GNSO Council chair election > - Bruce Tonkin's term expires 20 Nov 2004 > - recommend start two week nomination period > - hold election at next Council meeting > > > > Regards, > Bruce Tonkin > > > > >

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ICANN Announcement: Universal Acceptance of all gTLD Names
by GNSO SECRETARIAT 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

[To: council[at]gnso.icann.org; ga[at]gnso.icann.org] [To: liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org] Please see ICANN's recent postings: http://www.icann.org/ 18 October 2004 Universal Acceptance of all gTLD Names Some TLD names (strings) are rejected by some service providers or applications because the strings exceed three characters in length (e.g. .museum or .aero) or do not meet some other formatting criteria. To facilitate and foster corporation among registry operators, ISPs, and other who deal with domain names on a regular basis, a discussion forum has been opened on this topic <http://forum.icann.org/lists/tld-acceptance/>. To join this discussion list, simply send a message to: <majordomo[at]icann.org> with the words "subscribe tld-acceptance" in the body of the message. Participation in this forum is open to any interested person. Kind regards, Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org

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RE: [council] Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday 21 October 2004
by Bruce Tonkin 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

Hello Marc, > > Could we get these staff updates, Marilyn requests (and > others), per email before the conference? I always aim to try to get documents out at least 7 days prior to a call - but this is not always possible. I will attempt to get responses to your questions in advance. With respect to the item on the Agenda relating to the approval process for changes to the registry agreements, I have been advised that a revised document will not be available from the ICANN staff in time for the call. The ICANN General Counsel and ICANN staff are still reviewing the document to ensure that the recommendations are implementable in practice. I hope to receive a revised document in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully we can release a version for public comment prior to the ICANN meeting in Cape Town, and also use the Cape Town event to solicit further comments from the public. Regards, Bruce Tonkin

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RE: [council] Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday 21 October 2004
by Cade,Marilyn S - LGCRP 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

Dear Bruce and fellow Councilors Thanks for your update to the agenda for Council. I believe we need a number of quick updates by Staff related to items that affect the work of the Council as well as a couple of items we just need to figure out how to proceed on... I propose that we add in for Staff Updates: Status on recruitment and interviewing schedule for filling policy support staff positions Update on schedule for meetings for Cape Town Status on posting of Strategic Plan Provision/posting of any documents from ICANN to external entities, including OECD, WIPO, any others requesting work/input to the Strategy for new gTLD Implementation as well as the actual responses and reports provided by the external entity. We also need to discuss further how to proceed with the development of criteria for liaisons to other Supporting Organizations in terms of expected roles and responsibilities. Once this is done, we can then proceed with selection of the liaisons. Perhaps this could be a work item for Council at Cape Town. 202-360-1196 c mcade(a)att.com -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Tonkin [mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au] Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 11:58 PM To: council(a)gnso.icann.org Subject: RE: [council] Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday 21 October 2004 Adding an item (8) - Update on planning for ICANN meeting in Cape Town Regards, Bruce > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-council(a)gnso.icann.org > [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin > Sent: Tuesday, 12 October 2004 4:43 PM > To: council(a)gnso.icann.org > Subject: [council] Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday > 21 October 2004 > > Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday 21 October 2004 > > 12:00 UTC (10pm Melbourne, 1pm London, 8am Washington, 5am > Los Angeles) > > Item 1: Approval of minutes of 9 September 2004 > > > Item 2: Draft initial report on procedure for use by ICANN in > considering requests for consent and related contractual amendments to > allow changes in the architecture operation of a gTLD registry. [20 > mins] > > Review latest draft from ICANN staff (not yet available) > > > Item 3: New gtld strategy implementation [20 mins] > See: http://www.icann.org/topics/gtld-strategy-area.html > > > Item 4: Update on WHOIS [20 mins] > > Item 5: GNSO Council review by ICANN Board [20 mins] > - Council to do self-review as input to external consultant > > Item 6: GNSO Council elections > - terms of some Council members expire at end of 2004 annual > general meeting > > Item 7: GNSO Council chair election > - Bruce Tonkin's term expires 20 Nov 2004 > - recommend start two week nomination period > - hold election at next Council meeting > > > > Regards, > Bruce Tonkin > > > > >

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RE: [council] Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday 21 October 2004
by Bruce Tonkin 17 Oct '04

17 Oct '04

Adding an item (8) - Update on planning for ICANN meeting in Cape Town Regards, Bruce > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-council(a)gnso.icann.org > [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin > Sent: Tuesday, 12 October 2004 4:43 PM > To: council(a)gnso.icann.org > Subject: [council] Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday > 21 October 2004 > > Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday 21 October 2004 > > 12:00 UTC (10pm Melbourne, 1pm London, 8am Washington, 5am > Los Angeles) > > Item 1: Approval of minutes of 9 September 2004 > > > Item 2: Draft initial report on procedure for use by ICANN in > considering requests for consent and related contractual amendments to > allow changes in the architecture operation of a gTLD registry. [20 > mins] > > Review latest draft from ICANN staff (not yet available) > > > Item 3: New gtld strategy implementation [20 mins] > See: http://www.icann.org/topics/gtld-strategy-area.html > > > Item 4: Update on WHOIS [20 mins] > > Item 5: GNSO Council review by ICANN Board [20 mins] > - Council to do self-review as input to external consultant > > Item 6: GNSO Council elections > - terms of some Council members expire at end of 2004 annual > general meeting > > Item 7: GNSO Council chair election > - Bruce Tonkin's term expires 20 Nov 2004 > - recommend start two week nomination period > - hold election at next Council meeting > > > > Regards, > Bruce Tonkin > > > > >

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