January 2006 - council - lists.icann.org

Statement of Interests for Ross Rader
by Ross Rader 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

Statement of Interests I am the Director of Research and Innovation for Tucows Inc., an ICANN accredited registrar and internet services vendor. Tucows is a minority shareholder in Afilias LLC, with roughly an 8% shareholding. Neither Tucows, nor I, is in possession of, nor have access to Registry Sensitive or Registry Proprietary information as defined by any relevant registry operating contracts as a result of this relationship. Tucows provides consulting and application hosting services to other registrars and internet services providers. I am not an officer, director, consultant, or employee of any of these customer organizations nor am I specifically involved in providing services to them. The URL for this statement is: http://www.byte.org/blog/_WebPages/StatementofInterestsforRossRader.html -ross

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Regarding issues report on IDNs
by Bruce Tonkin 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hello Sophia, > I suppose the PDP public forum does not include the IDN at this point. Correct? We formally requested an issues report on IDN's in Vancouver. However we were informed that there was some other work going on via the President's committee and also work within the IAB that would help in the development of that report. I expect we should have the report for our meeting in Wellington, but as IDN's is a large and very specialised topic I don't see that being on the agenda for the meeting in Washington. Regards, Bruce

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Re: [council] GNSO Council meeting proposed dates
by Your Name 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

OK with me Tony Harris > Dear Councillors, > > These are proposed dates for Council meetings till the Vancouver meetings. > > Thursday 28 July 12:00 UTC > Thursday 18 August 12:00 UTC > Thursday 21 September 12:00 UTC > Thursday 20 October 12:00 UTC > Wednesday 16 November 19:00 UTC > > Please let me know if you have any questions. > > Thank you very much. > Kind regards, > > Glen > > -- > Glen de Saint Géry > GNSO Secretariat - ICANN > gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org > http://gnso.icann.org > > --

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VRSN Settlment Documents Posted for Public Comment
by GNSO.SECRETARIAT＠GNSO.ICANN.ORG 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

[To: liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org; council[at]gnso.icann.org] [To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org] Please be informed that ICANN Posts Revised Settlement Agreement http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-29jan06.htm ICANN today posted a newly revised proposed set of agreements http://icann.org/topics/verisign-settlement.htm#amended_agreements which, if approved, will settle all pending litigation with VeriSign. The proposed agreement documents are being posted for public comment in order to inform the Board's deliberations; the proposed settlement remains subject to final approval or disapproval of the ICANN Board. 29 January 2006. A full description of the history of the settlement negotiations, the settlement documents, and the issues raised in public fora can be found at http://www.icann.org/topics/verisign-settlement.htm . This summary includes clean and red-lined versions of the amended agreements. ICANN has also published a matrix summary of Revisions to the Settlement and Registry Agreements. http://www.icann.org/topics/vrsn-settlement/revision-matrix-29jan06.pdf Address to submit a comment regarding the revised agreements: revised-settlement(a)icann.org Comments regarding the revised agreements may be viewed at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/revised-settlement/ Comment period will close 20 February 2005, at 12:00 noon, UTC Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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RE: [council] Revised .com agreement
by Bruce Tonkin 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Hello Philip, I will invite Kurt Pritz and John Jeffrey. A good place to start is this document, which I have attached for convenience. From: http://www.icann.org/topics/vrsn-settlement/revision-matrix-29jan06.pdf The document identifies 8 issues, and describes the changes made to address those issues, as well as the rationale for the changes. Regards, Bruce Tonkin ________________________________ From: owner-council(a)gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Philip Sheppard Sent: Wednesday, 1 February 2006 1:15 AM To: council(a)gnso.icann.org Subject: [council] Revised .com agreement Bruce, could you invite the .com negotiating team (Kurt, JJ, ++ ) to do a Q and A for Council at the start of our call scheduled for Monday 6 February? This would help to inform Council about the changes and the rationale for the changes before we discuss those changes with our constituencies. Philip

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FW: New gTLD Response
by olof nordling 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Dear Council members, Please find attached the IPC Constituency statement regarding the new gTLDs PDP. Best regards Olof _____ From: Chicoine, Caroline G. [mailto:CCHICOINE@thompsoncoburn.com] Sent: den 31 januari 2006 18:26 To: olof.nordling(a)icann.org Cc: new-gtlds-pdp-comments(a)icann.org Subject: RE: New gTLD Response Dear Mr. Nordling, I am the current Vice President of the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) and the IPC wishes to submit our response to ICANN's requests for comments regarding new gTLDs, a copy of which is attached. Thank you for this opportunity to provide our input on this very important topic, and we look forward to working with ICANN as this process unfolds. Caroline G. Chicoine Thompson Coburn LLP One USBank Plaza St. Louis, MO 63101 (314) 552-6499 Fax: (314) 552-7499 cchicoine(a)thompsoncoburn.com

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Revised .com agreement
by Philip Sheppard 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Bruce, could you invite the .com negotiating team (Kurt, JJ, ++ ) to do a Q and A for Council at the start of our call scheduled for Monday 6 February? This would help to inform Council about the changes and the rationale for the changes before we discuss those changes with our constituencies. Philip

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FYI - January 30 Operational Plan of the GNSO
by Maria Farrell 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Dear all, Attached for your information is the updated version of the GNSO Operational Plan. It spans the GNSO's work from January 30th till April 30th. all the best, Maria

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Regarding availability of Council members for meeting/s later in February
by Bruce Tonkin 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Hello Glen, >From the recent postings by Council members, there seem to be several other international meetings being held in February that potentially would conflict with the possibility of holding a physical meeting. Please survey the members of Council to identify what dates they would be available either for a physical meeting or a pro-longed teleconference towards the second half of February/first half of March. This will help identify if we have a critical mass of participants, and form information for Council members to assist in making a decision under agenda item 4 of the next Council meeting. As mentioned earlier if a constituency is unable to have three Council members available for a committee meeting, than it would be possible to appoint alternates to represent them - but it would not be desirable for a constituency to need to entirely depend on non-Council members. Regards, Bruce Tonkin

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Clarification of the purpose of meeting later in February 2006
by Bruce Tonkin 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Hello All, Note that the recent email discussions regarding purpose, date, location, and agenda of the meeting in February all relate to agenda item 4 of the next GNSO Council meeting. The agenda is online at: http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-6feb06.shtml We had an already scheduled teleconference for 21 February, but given the amount of work we have on I thought that a physical meeting of longer duration (e.g 2 days) would be a more effective way of making progress on our current work items. It looks like 21 Feb will not work for most Council members, so we have been trying to identify an alternative date that might work. Any decision in this area will be made at the next Council call on 6 Feb. The current work item for meeting later in February is: - PDP on new gTLDs being undertaken by a committee of the whole Council Also on the agenda for the 6 Feb 2006, is a discussion on whether to initiate a PDP on any issues identified in an issues report requested at our last meeting. This is the topic of agenda item 2. Depending on the outcome of agenda item 2, this will have an impact on the agenda of any meeting later in February. I hope that clarifies things as there have been many subsequent threads of discussion since the draft agenda was posted on 20 Jan 2006. See: http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01821.html Regards, Bruce Tonkin

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