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Draft Agenda for Council meeting - Wednesday 28 March 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
by Bruce Tonkin April 5, 2007

April 5, 2007

Draft Agenda for Council meeting - Wednesday 28 March 2007, Lisbon, Portugal Item 0: Roll call of Council members present physically or available via teleconference Item 1: Update any statements of interest Item 2: Approval of Minutes - 15 March 2007 Item 3: actions arising from input in the GNSO public forum Item 4: WHOIS PDP - summarise outcome of meeting with the GAC - next steps - consider forming an implementation working group to resolve implementation details of concern to some constituencies around OPoC Item 5: Reserved names Working Group - identify what to include in new gTLDs report, and what further work to initiate Item 6: IDN working group - identify what material to include in new gTLDs report, and what will require further work Item 7: new gTLDs PDP - identify timeline for completion of work Item 8: any other business

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Review of Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy
by Bruce Tonkin April 5, 2007

April 5, 2007

Hello All, The attached documents have been prepared by Karen Lentz at ICANN with respect to the review of the transfers policy. Note that little progress has been made on this as most of the people involved in the original transfers task force have been heavily involved in either or both of the new gTLDs work or WHOIS. I think it is worthwhile the Council considering the current status and next steps. Regards, Bruce Tonkin -----Original Message----- From: Karen Lentz [mailto:lentz@icann.org] Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2007 3:53 PM Subject: FW: Review of Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Following up on this, there are now 3 documents, attached. 1) is the draft advisory, unchanged from last message in January. <Draft-Transfer-Advisory-24jan07.doc> 2) is some notes on possible tighter wording/clarifications to the existing policy. This consists of 4 points taken out of the previous "policy issues" list--all of these had to do with the reasons for denial section. <DenialClarifications-28mar07.doc> 3) is a revised list of policy issues with the above-mentioned items taken out. <Draft-TransfersPolicyList-28mar07> Best regards, Karen

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Recommendation to the GNSO Council Regarding Policy Work on Protection of IGO Names and Abbreviations in line with WIPO 2
by Bruce Tonkin April 5, 2007

April 5, 2007

Hello All, Attached is a recommendation prepared by the intellectual property constituency regarding next steps with respect to the request from WIPO for ICANN to consider Protection of IGO Names and Abbreviations in line with WIPO 2 . The constituency recommends that: "The GNSO Council should request an Issues Report from ICANN staff to further explore the issues involved in introducing a separate dispute resolution procedure (DRP) specifically for addressing disputes involving IGO names and abbreviations. Based on this Issues Report, the GNSO Council may then consider launching a PDP on the topic. " Note there is a stream of correspondence available at: http://www.icann.org/correspondence/ on this topic. A more recent letter is dated 31 January 2006: http://www.icann.org/correspondence/twomey-to-tarmizi-13mar06.pdf And 15 June 2006: http://www.icann.org/correspondence/tarmizi-to-twomey-15jun06.pdf Note this is relevant in the context of some of the GAC principles relating to new gTLDs. Regards, Bruce Tonkin

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