17 March 2005
Proposed agenda
and related documents
List of attendees:
Philip Sheppard - Commercial & Business Users C. - absent - apologies, proxy
to Grant Forsyth/Marilyn Cade
Marilyn Cade - Commercial & Business Users C.
Grant Forsyth - Commercial & Business Users C. - absent - apologies, proxy
to Marilyn Cade
Greg Ruth - ISCPC
Antonio Harris - ISCPC
Tony Holmes - ISCPC
Thomas Keller- Registrars - absent
Ross Rader - Registrars
Bruce Tonkin - Registrars
Ken Stubbs - gTLD registries
Philip Colebrook - gTLD registries
Cary Karp - gTLD registries
Lucy Nichols - Intellectual Property Interests C
Niklas Lagergren - Intellectual Property Interests C - absent - apologies -
proxy to Lucy Nichols/Kiyoshi Tsuru
Kiyoshi Tsuru - Intellectual Property Interests C. - absent
Robin Gross - Non Commercial Users C.
Marc Schneiders - Non Commercial Users C.
Carlos Afonso - Non Commercial Users C. - absent - apologies - proxy to Marc
Schneiders
Alick Wilson - proxy to Maureen Cubberly if necessary
Maureen Cubberley
15 Council Members
ICANN Staff
Paul Verhoef - Vice President, Policy Development Support
Kurt Pritz - Vice President, Business Operations
Olof Nordling - Manager of Policy Development Coordination
Glen de Saint G�ry - GNSO Secretariat
GNSO Council Liaisons
Bret Fausett - ALAC Liaison
Suzanne Sene - GAC Liaison
Michael Palage - ICANN Board member - observer
Jordyn Buchanan - Co - chair Whois task force
MP3 Recording:
Quorum present at 20:09
Bruce Tonkin chaired this teleconference.
Item 1: Approval
of Agenda
Item 2: Approval of the
Minutes
of 17 February 2005
Ken Stubbs moved the adoption of the Minutes
of 17 February 2005
The motion carried unanimously
Decision 1: The minutes of 17
February 2005 were adopted
Item 3: Progress report on Election for ICANN Board seat #14 (currently held
by Michael Palage)
Glen de Saint Géry gave a summary of the nominations.
Nominations closed on March 11, 2005, there was one nomination by Tom Keller
for Michael Palage, seconded
by Cary Karp and Robin Gross. The email voting instructions have been
sent out.
Bruce Tonkin referred to an e-mail
to the Council from Maureen Cubberly regarding a potential candidate
that had requested an extension in the nomination period. An email response
from Lucy Nichols on the Council list stated that notice had been given to the
ICANN community on the timelines for nominations, and the nomination process
should only be re-opened under exceptional circumstances.
The Council did not consider this particular request as an exceptional circumstance,
and there was no motion put forward to vary the nomination process. Other Councillors
had expressed on the mailing list an interest in conducting the vote for this
accruing during the meeting. Councillors that were absent did not have the opportunity
to provide voting instructions to their proxys. Thus the Council decided to
proceed with the elections as notified by the GNSO Secretariat. The email voting
process was opened on 17 March at 00:00 and was due to close on 31 March
2005.
Bruce Tonkin invited Michael Palage to make a statement and be available
to answer any questions on his candidacy.
Michael Palage referred to his conflict
of interest and candidate statement and added that he had been involved
in the ICANN process since its inception. He considered the strategic plan of
paramount importance in the short term. ICANN had developed from an 8 million
dollar to a 16 million dollar organization and needed to work with the community
for it to be supportive of the organization engaging in new endeavours. He applauded
the Amsterdam initiative as being a catalyst in engaging in important discussions
on the topic.
Bruce Tonkin commented that the first iteration of the Strategic plan
process was presented to public in late 2004 and looking at the process to evolve
that plan in coming years, asked Michael what process elements would be important
to get sufficient stakeholder buy in.
Michael Palage responded that
the plan needed to be in keeping with the bottom-up, open transparent policies
that are the foundations of ICANN. He considered an important outcome of the
Amsterdam consultation was the idea of segregating the strategic plan from the
operational plan and following the proposed timelines. A series of checks and
balances were needed and he quoted the current registrar contracts in
place with the gTLDs where there were mechanisms for registrars to decide how
they would be invoiced for ICANN fees and the approval process that required
those registrars paying at least 66% of the fees to approve. He felt that not
only should providers have some control over the budget the but there should
be a broader consultation process.
There were no further questions.
Bruce Tonkin thanked Michael Palage for his statements and taking
the time to address the Council.
Item 4: Update on WHOIS task force
Jordyn Buchanan reported that since the last Council call on 17 February
2005 the Whois task force 1/2 had had one call, and task force 1/2 combined
with the Whois task force 3 had had 2 calls. As part of data gathering there
were six presenters on an open combined task force call, 3 registrars who offered
privacy services to registrants and 3 registries .ca .name and .de which provided
or planned to provide differentiated access to Whois data.
There was a call with 7 members of the ICANN staff and the combined task forces
to discuss the concern that staff expressed on going forward with the task force
recommendation 2 . Good progress was made in developing an understanding
of staff concerns and how to move forward.
Staff was developing a report on all the work undertaken by the Whois task forces.
It was planned to pick up on the accuracy topic.
The combined task forces planned to have a meeting with the GNSO Council
members in Mar del Plata on Sunday 3 April 2005.
Item 5: Planning for ICANN meetings in Mar Del Plata
- meeting with GAC gTLD working group - 9:00 - 10:00
- GNSO operational and strategic planning
- input to ICANN public forums on strategic plan
- GNSO public forum
- Joint GNSO Council/WHOIS task force meeting
Bruce Tonkin reported that the specifically GNSO orientated meetings would
be:
Sunday 3 April
- meeting with GAC gTLD working group - 9:00 - 10:00
- GNSO operational and strategic planning
Monday 4 April
It was suggested that the GNSO Breakfast with the Board be arranged with
multiple round tables or a single horseshoe table, rather than a single long
table to make it easier to converse with ICANN Board members.
Wednesday 6
GNSO Public Forum 8:30 - 10:00
GNSO Council 10:00 - 12:00
Deleted Names workshop proposed but no timeslot.
Tony Harris suggested that the secretariat should liaise with him on
the Mar del Plata arrangements.
Bruce Tonkin encouraged Council members to arrive in time for the Sunday
meetings to prepare for the different meetings.
Marilyn Cade suggested that in future there should be a liaison from the
GNSO Council with ICANN staff to plan the meeting schedules.
Item 6: Update from ICANN staff on new appointments (introduce Olof Nordling)
Paul Verhoef introduced Olof Nordling, a Swedish national, appointed
as manager of Policy Development Coordination who would be spending time on
the new gTLD policy , in parallel getting acquainted with the ccNSO, Addressing
Supporting Organization (ASO) and Government Advisory Committee issues
Olof Nordling gave a short resume of his background, stating that immediately
before starting with ICANN, he was Head of the TeliaSonera, the Swedish/Finnish
Telecommunications group�s Brussels office, where he was responsible for relations
to the EU institutions for Telecommunications policy matters. Prior positions
were Counsellor and Head of the Science and Technology office at the Swedish
Embassy in Paris, Deputy Trade Commissioner for Sweden based in Los Angeles,
Systems Analyst for Honeywell Bull in Paris and he started out as a patent attorney
in Sweden after his M.Sc. from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
Item 6: Any other business
1. Proposed change to the ICANN bylaws on the number of constituency representatives
Paul Verhoef reported that the Board
submission regarding the proposed change to the ICANN bylaws to support the
three versus two representatives per constituency on the GNSO Council would
be published for public comment and was scheduled to be on the Board agenda
in Mar del Plata
2. Strategic Plan
Kurt Pritz reported on the developments in the Strategic Plan from the staff
perspective . Dr. Twomey and Barbara Roseman were working in cooperation with
Patrick Sharry on transforming the input from the Amsterdam Consultation and
other input received into an amended and final version of the Strategic Plan.
This plan will be published before the Mar del Plata meetings.
The scheduled open meetings would have dial in facilities.
Kurt Pritz mentioned the detail that has been added on the ICANN website
with regard to the three Strategic Plan meetings:
1.
Public Discussion to Provide Input into the ICANN Operational Plan and Budget
for July 2005 to June 2006
17:00 � 19:00, Monday, 4 April 2005
2.
Public Discussion on Revised draft of ICANN Strategic Plan
16:30 � 18:30, Tuesday, 5 April 2005
3.Public
Discussion on Development of Process of Consultation for Ongoing Strategic and
Operational Planning Cycles
16:30 � 18:00, Monday, 4 April 2005
3. Susanne Sene commented that the GNSO Council and GAC meetings facilitated
a regular routine method of exchanging views and information. Although the format
was not settled, it was useful for the GAC to hear directly from the GNSO community
what the issues were and what input was being sought from the GAC.
4. WISIS workshop on Tuesday afternoon 5 April from 13:00 to 16:00
Bruce Tonkin declared
the GNSO meeting closed and thanked everybody for participating.
The meeting ended: 21:40 UTC.
Next GNSO Council meeting
in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on Wednesday 6 April 2005, at 10:00 local time.
see: Calendar