[To: council[at]gnso.icann.org] Dear Council Members, Ahead of the complete minutes, please find the resolution that the GNSO Council unanimously passed at its meeting on 20 September 2007. i) Whereas the GNSO Working Group on Inter-registrar Domain Transfers Policy Review (Transfers WG) has completed its work, and; ii) Whereas, the Transfers WG has provided a series of reports to the GNSO Council for its consideration, Be it resolved that; i) The GNSO Council will issue the working group report entitled "Advisory Concerning Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy" (see: http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/Transfer-Advisory-23aug07.pdf) for constituency and community review and comment for a period of no less than 14 days, and; i.a) pursuant to this comment period, all material commentary will be summarized and reviewed by Council i.b) pursuant to the review by Council that the current, or an amended form of this report be provided to Staff for posting to the ICANN web site as a community advisory. ii) Pursuant to section 1.b of Annex A of ICANN's Bylaws, that the GNSO Council initiate the formal GNSO Policy Development Process by requesting the creation of an issues report evaluating issues raised by the working group document "Points of Clarification Inter-Registrar TransferPolicy". see: (http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/Transfer-Denial-Clarifications-23aug07.pdf) iii). That the GNSO Council form a short-term planning group to analyse and prioritize the policy issues raised in the report "Communication to GNSO on Policy Issues Arising from Transfer Review" (see: http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/Transfer-Policy-Issues-23aug07.pdf) before the Council further considers a PDP on any of the work discussed in the report." Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org