Hello Chuck,
Thanks Bruce. It is surprising to me that GNSO Improvement is not on the agenda. What is the status? In planning for our work in New Delhi, it would be very helpful to have some idea about next steps and estimated timing of those steps. The GNSO meetings in New Delhi could provide a good opportunity to work on GNSO improvement and it would be ashamed to have to wait until June to do that.
From the preliminary minutes of the Board meeting last week:
From: http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-18dec07.htm "Roberto Gaetano, as BGC Chair, advised that the next step is with the GNSO working group. Substantial comments were received from different constituencies at the deadline and these are to be incorporated into the document, however, because the comments are substantial and diverge from the current draft a teleconference of the working group is proposed between 27 and 31 December to assist with the process. A new draft agreement will pass to BGC for discussion at that level and it is unlikely to come before the Board until February. This would be a reasonable timeline to enable discussion and approval at Delhi. " Regards, Bruce Tonkin