What an excellent step forward. I was very pleased that we received several compliments, both publicly and privately, regarding our Public Comment Period. It is extremely helpful to me as a councilor to hear different views on topics of keen interest and current impact, as well as longer term concern to the affected stakeholders, and this is a unique opportunity for us to all engage in a dialogue on topics that are immediate to our following on meeting. Thus I was thinking that we could for the future even consider a sort of template to this so that we have topical headings, for those areas where we have posted an agenda, and then a separate heading for the "OPEN MIKE" session. That might provide a way to deal with this, since most of the comments on the posted topics will then be augmented/acted on/or not, within the Council meeting in terms of incorporating input into the rest of the output of the Council. It is my view that we may find open mike comments those that we would then need to decide what follow up is/even if it is "we can't help" on that, or we think we can at least include that point in further considerations. -----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 6:02 AM To: Maria Farrell Cc: council@gnso.icann.org; Glen De Saint Géry Subject: [council] Summary of public comments from GNSO public forum Hello Maria, Please have a go at summarising the public comments received during the GNSO public forum. Especially the open mike session. Hopefully the transcript of the session is available to assist. I think it is important that members of the GNSO Community see value in contributing public comments. The GNSO Council needs to take action in response to constructive suggestions, questions, and comments. I think the Council should formally review the comments received, and report on what action it has taken. The Council can forward an appropriate paper to the Board on the outcomes of the public forum. Regards, Bruce Tonkin