Dear Bruce I support your proposal. For the BC, this will also be helpful since one of our councilors is on vacation but due back very shortly. Thus, he will be available for the follow on substantive discussions. Thanks for your clarification on the question of 7 days on substantive documents. I know that "in extremis" situations do develop, and we can discuss, at a later time, how to enable the putting forward of a document in an urgent situation, but that is not the "typical" situation that we encounter. Regards Marilyn -----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:12 AM To: council@gnso.icann.org Subject: RE: [council] GNSO Review: Phase One Paper Hello All, Hello All, The document on terms of reference for the GNSO review document deserves more extensive discussion than will be available during the Council call this week. For the Council call (under agenda item 2) I have asked Liz to provide information on the timeline for when the terms of reference need to be completed so that the Board has sufficient time to consider them for decision at the meeting in Vancouver. This will help guide when we need to schedule meetings to discuss the terms of reference. I hope Council members will read the document and provide input via the mailing list as soon as possible. I will be recommending during the Council meeting that we schedule a separate Council call on the terms of reference so that we can give it the appropriate level of attention. We might like to do this as two meetings: (1) A GNSO Council meeting to get input from the GNSO Council members - we might also choose to invite the chairs (or even the exec committees) of the GNSO constituencies Followed by (2) A joint meeting between the GNSO Council and interested members of the ICANN Board In particular, I would hope that we can get input from the Board members that have been elected from each of the Supporting Organisations. The terms of reference for the GNSO review, should help form the basis for future reviews of the ASO and ccNSO. Regards, Bruce Tonkin