Dear Councillors,

Attached please find the draft minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on 17 December 2009.

Please let me know if you would like any changes to be made. If no comments are received, these minutes will be published, as approved  on the website on page

http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/index.html#dec

on Thursday, 31 December 2009.

Please note the action items arising from the minutes:

Item 4 Action Item:
Discussion of the Issues Report regarding vertical separation of Registries and Registrars

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/vertical-integration/report-04dec09-en.pdf

Council members are encouraged to involve their stakeholder groups in discussing this issue and to provide input on the Council mailing list in preparation for the next Council meeting on 7 January 2010 and at a specially convened meeting for that purpose if it is decided to schedule such meeting.
Margie Milam's overview can be accessed at:

http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/issues-report-summary-17dec09-en.pdf

Item 6.2.4 Action Item:

Councilors are encouraged to solicit input from their stakeholder groups on the Final Report of the IDN Implementation Working Team

http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-implementation-working-team-report-final-03dec09-en.pdf

in preparation for discussion at the next Council meeting on Thursday, 7 January 2010.

Item 7.1 Action Item:

Chuck Gomes to send a message to the Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC) Policy Development Process (PDP) work team capturing the discussion and outcome of the request for a face to face meeting.

Item 7. 3 Action Item

Councilors are asked to forward the AGP Limits Policy - Implementation Report

http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-report-14dec09-en.pdf
to their stakeholder groups and be prepared to discuss the issue in the meeting on 7 January 2010.

Reminder: Following the new GNSO Council operating Procedures we no

longer will need to approve minutes in our live meeting but each Councilor will

individually be responsible for reviewing and commenting on the minutes.

GNSO Council operating Procedures

http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/gnso-operating-procedures-clean-12nov09-en.pdf

3.5 Procedure to Produce the Minutes

"Within 10 days of the meeting, the Chair and Vice Chairs will edit the draft

and request the Secretariat to circulate the draft summary to GNSO Council

members for comment and approval. All comments received will be accepted for

inclusion into the draft minutes unless there are objections. If no objections

are received within 10 days, the minutes will be deemed to have been approved

for posting.

All comments received from GNSO Council members will be incorporated in the

summary unless there are objections from other GNSO Council members."

Thank you.

Kind regards,

Glen de Saint Géry

GNSO Secretariat

gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org

http://gnso.icann.org