Bruce, Thanks for asking. I would suggest that there be time/date allocated for policy development meetings on IDNs. I presume there will be workshops and presentations viz IDNs during Marrakesh. I have also discussed with relevant staff to allot some time/date to give opportunities for indiginous African companies to do presentations on similar subjects. regards, Sophia p.s do u have an online ref to the WSJ media coverage on WHOIS? On 28/04/06, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au> wrote:
Hello All,
The Marrakech, Morocco meeting is scheduled for:
Monday 26 June 2006 to Friday 30 June 2006.
We should start to give some consideration to what policy development meetings we should have.
We have the option of booking meeting room space for the Saturday 24/Sunday 25 June prior to the start of the Marrakech meeting.
I am hoping that the PDP-Dec05 work on new gTLDs will be in a public comment phase on a comprehensive initial report, so we probably don't need substantial policy development time for that PDP.
The two other PDPs underway are the WHOIS PDP, and the PDP-Feb06 on contractual conditions for existing gTLDs. The Brussels meeting should be good preparation for PDP-Feb06, so it might be useful to spend one or days on advancing that work.
The WHOIS work seems to be inching along as ever - I think it might also be useful to schedule a 1-2 day workshop in parallel with the work on PDP-Feb06 to really see if we can get a proposal for the community to consider on terms of reference 3:
"Determine what data collected should be available for public access in the context of the purpose of WHOIS. Determine how to access data that is not available for public access."
I note that it appears that the WHOIS policy discussion is now being handled by the media (e.g see recent Wall Street Journal article). I have seen some unsupported conclusions for a future service coming out of the recent vote on WHOIS purpose. The only way to address this seems to be to create a concrete proposal for possible changes to the WHOIS service for providing public access to some of the data that is collected by registrars that can be discussed more rationally with the wider community.
I am interested in the views of Council members, and also task force members on how best to use the time in Marrakech.
Regards, Bruce Tonkin Chair, GNSO Council