[To council[at]gnso.icann.org] Dear Council Members, Please note the added volunteers to the GNSO working group: The registrar members are: - Bruce Tonkin, Melbourne IT - Werner Staub, CORE (registrar) and .cat - Yoav Keren, Domain The Net Technologies (registrar) - Paul Diaz, Network Solutions Sophia Bekele, CBS International, and Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO Council Avri Doria, Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO Council Ram Mohan, Afilias (operator for .info, .org, .mobi, and .in) Cary Karp, gTLD Registries representative to the GNSO Council June Seo, gTLD Registries representative to the GNSO Council Alistair Dixon, Telstra Clear Ltd., and CBUC representative to the GNSO Council + other CBUC participants not yet named. Marilyn Cade, CBUC representative to the GNSO Council Mawaki Chango, NCUC representative to the GNSO Council Charles Shaban, TALAL ABU-GHAZALEH & CO.International (TAGI) IPC representative. Please contact me if there are still names to add. We would like to confirm the list as soon as possible. Thank you very much, Kind regards. Glen Decision 4: That the GNSO Council forms a GNSO working group of volunteers, conversant with the IDN issues raised in the IDN issues report. The purpose of the working group would be to: (1) review the Issues Report, (2) prioritise the policy issues in the Issues Report for further work, (3) develop the terms of reference for an initial policy development process in the area of IDNs within the GNSO, (4) propose ways of interacting with ICANN groups such as the President's Advisory Committee on IDNs, the GAC, ALAC, SSAC and other related groups in ICANN, and (5) select three representatives to interact with the three ccNSO representatives to form a separate joint GNSO/ccNSO working group to: (5.1) agree on the priority issues and determine whether to examine the issues as a single "joint" PDP, or as two separate PDPs (5.2) provide a report to the GNSO and ccNSO Councils with recommendations for terms of reference of one or more PDPs, and the mechanisms for coordination with other parts of ICANN The group would aim to have recommendations completed by the end of July 2006. -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org