GNSO COUNCIL TELECONFERENCE 1 SEPTEMBER 2005 - EXTRACT FROM THE DRAFT MINUTES

1 September 2005

Proposed agenda and related documents

List of attendees:
Philip Sheppard - Commercial & Business Users C. - absent - apologies
Marilyn Cade - Commercial & Business Users C.
Grant Forsyth - Commercial & Business Users C
Greg Ruth - ISCPC
Antonio Harris - ISCPC
Tony Holmes - ISCPC
Thomas Keller- Registrars - absent - apologies proxy to Ross Rader/Bruce Tonkin
Ross Rader - Registrars
Bruce Tonkin - Registrars
Ken Stubbs - gTLD registries
Philip Colebrook - gTLD registries
Cary Karp - gTLD registries
Lucy Nichols - Intellectual Property Interests C - absent - apologies - proxy to Niklas Lagergren/Kiyoshi Tsuru
Niklas Lagergren - Intellectual Property Interests C
Kiyoshi Tsuru - Intellectual Property Interests C. - absent
Robin Gross - Non Commercial Users C. - absent
Norbert Klein - Non Commercial Users C. - absent
Alick Wilson - Nominating Committee appointee - absent - apologies - proxy to Bruce Tonkin
Maureen Cubberley - Nominating Committee appointee - absent - apologies
Avri Doria - Nominating Committee appointee

12 Council Members

ICANN Staff
Olof Nordling - Manager, Policy Development Coordination
Maria Farrell - ICANN GNSO Policy Support Officer - absent
Liz Williams - Senior Policy Counsellor
Glen de Saint G�ry - GNSO Secretariat


GNSO Council Liaisons
Suzanne Sene - GAC Liaison
Bret Fausett - acting ALAC Liaison - absent

Michael Palage - ICANN Board member

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MP3 Recording

Quorum present at 14:05 CET.

Bruce Tonkin chaired this teleconference.


Bruce Tonkin clarified that the outcome of the GNSO teleconference would be conveyed, as a response that had been requested via the CEO, Dr. Paul Twomey, to the ICANN Board. The following step would be to work on the detail of the proposed approach to moving forward with the development of policy for new gtlds and report the Council's progress to the Board.

Bruce Tonkin proposed seeking a high level decision that the GNSO Council would develop two policy development processes with the need to engage outside experts to assist in the two separate processes.

1. A policy development process which would look at the issues including
- whether to introduce gTLDs,
- the criteria for approving applications for new gTLDs
- the allocation method, assuming that there was a limit to how many gTLDs could be introduced at once
- the key contractual conditions for those TLDs which might include conditions such as: escrow policies, obligation to use an ICANN accredited registrar etc.

2. A policy development process to be undertaken in collaboration with the ccNSO for the introduction of IDNs at the root level.

3. The expectation that the evaluation of the previous round of new gTLDs would continue and the remaining work would be completed.

4. The GNSO will be seeking a budget to obtain expert advice to assist in these policy development initiatives.

Bruce Tonkin called for a decision and council unanimously decided, by voice to support the decision.

In discussion:
Marilyn Cade supported the approach with the caveat to the Board that additional resources, in the nature of expert advice, were needed.
Cary Karp cautioned in responding with regard to developments in the IDN components relating to the cc development. It should be emphasised that it was not only issues specific to the gTLD situation and thus a clear platform would be required as reference to provide advice to the entire situation as it would unfold across the TLD space in IDNs in a global situation.
Ross Rader suggested that a compilation of work on IDNs, similar to that which was done on new gTLDs should be undertaken.

Bruce Tonkin declared the GNSO meeting closed and thanked everybody for participating.
The meeting ended: 16: 00 CET.