Hello All, For those that have recently joined the GNSO Council, the following provides some background to the recently released staff report on transfers. As part of the new transfers policy developed by the GNSO (see http://www.icann.org/gnso/transfers-tf/report-12feb03.htm ), the GNSO Council required that the ICANN Staff analyse and report to the GNSO Council at three, six and twelve month intervals after implementation with the goal of determining; i. How effectively and to what extent the policies have been implemented and adopted by Registrars, Registries and Registrants, ii. Whether or not modifications to these policies should be considered by the GNSO as a result of the experiences gained during the implementation and monitoring stages, iii. The effectiveness of the dispute resolution processes and a summary of the filings that have been resolved through the process. The new policy at (http://www.icann.org/transfers/policy-12jul04.htm ) went into effect on 12 November 2004. The three monthly review has just been published by the ICANN staff at: http://www.icann.org/transfers/transfer-report-14apr05.pdf We are now due for the 6 monthly review. The Council will need to decide whether any refinements are necessary to the transfers policy. I encourage Council members to advise their constituencies of the transfers report, and discuss whether changes are warranted. Regards, Bruce Tonkin