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Draft GNSO Council minutes 24 February 2011
by Glen de Saint Géry March 2, 2011

March 2, 2011

Dear Council Members, Attached please find the draft GNSO Council minutes for the meeting on 24 February 2011. Please let me know if you would like any changes to be made. If no comments are received, these minutes will be published, as approved on the website on page: http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/index.html#feb on Friday, 11 March 2011. Thank you very much. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Cross community working groups
by Stéphane Van Gelder March 2, 2011

March 2, 2011

Councillors, As a reminder, during our previous meeting the subject of CWGs was discussed and that we had planned to put together a discussion group on this. So far, volunteers to the group are: Rosemary, Jaime, Bill, Tim, Jonathan, Jeff and Wendy. Has the group chosen a leader and if so, could you let the Council know who that is? Is it feasible to ask the discussion group to come back with a summary of discussions and possible positions that the Council could adopt on CWGs within 2 months? Thanks, Stéphane

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GNSO Council Meeting with Patrik Fältström 12 March 2011
by Julie Hedlund March 2, 2011

March 2, 2011

Dear GNSO Councilors, As you may recall, Patrik Fältström, the new Chair of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), is scheduled to meet briefly with the GNSO Council at its Saturday Working Session at the ICANN Silicon Valley meeting from 10:30 to 11:00 am on 12 March. For your reference in advance of this meeting, I have attached the presentation that Patrik will be providing to you. This will be a very brief presentation since the majority of the time will be reserved for discussion and questions. In particular, Patrik is interested in hearing your ideas on how the SSAC can help the GNSO and on practical areas to explore. For example, in the past, initial work by the SSAC has led to policy work in the GNSO, such as fast flux hosting and aspects of registration abuse relating to WHOIS. In addition, over the years GNSO working groups have considered recommendations from various SSAC reports. (See partial list below.) If you have any suggestions for topics for discussion that you would like me to convey to Patrik in advance of the meeting, please let me know. Thank you very much for your assistance. Best regards, Julie [SAC033]: Domain Name Registration Records and Directory Services (22 July 2008) [SAC037]: Display and usage of Internationalized Registration Data: Support for characters from local languages or scripts (21 April 2009) [SAC038]: Registrar Abuse Contacts (26 February 2009) [SAC040]: Measures to Protect Domain Registration Services Against Exploitation or Misuse (19 August 2009) [SAC041]: Recommendation to prohibit use of redirection and synthesized responses by new TLDs [SAC044]: A Registrant's Guide to Protecting Domain Name Registration Accounts (05 November 2010) [SAC045]: Invalid Top Level Domain Queries at the Root Level of the Domain Name System

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SF agenda
by Stéphane Van Gelder March 1, 2011

March 1, 2011

Olga, Glen, FYI, I have confirmation from Staff that there will not be a Council/Board social event in SF. Stéphane

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ICANN Revises 2011 Meeting Sponsorship Program
by Glen de Saint Géry March 1, 2011

March 1, 2011

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-24feb11-en.htm ICANN Revises 2011 Meeting Sponsorship Program 24 February 2011 Earlier this year, ICANN announced a new sponsorship program that introduced higher levels of support, as well as price increases for lower level sponsorship packages. Some of our supporters have found it difficult to purchase the sponsorship package that provides their preferred benefits at the new cost. We have listened to concerns expressed by our community and today are announcing a revised sponsorship program that reduces the cost for many of our lower level sponsorship packages while retaining some of the higher level opportunities. We have also created a 33% discount rate for non-profit organizations. Details of the new sponsorship program can be found at: http://meetings.icann.org/sponsorship Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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