Dear GNSO Council Members: As part of my candidate statement, I recommitted to providing more effective representative of the GNSO's views, as well as fulfilling my broader responsibilities as a board member, during my second term. I would like to share some occasion insight into my contributions to the Board . This way you may get a better idea of how I am representing stakeholder perspectives and concerns at the Board level. I know it remains very important to understand that board members do not actually represent the bodies that elect them, since they assume a broader responsibility for the organization once elected, however, I believe it is possible to balance that responsibility and also be in touch with the broad concerns of stakeholders within the GNSO. Recognizing how busy you all are, and that you may not have time to follow all information sites continuously, I published the Board agenda to the Council list last week, and will continue to do so in the future. In conjunction with some recent dialog in connection with gTLDs and the expanse of the name space I made the following post to the Board list. I will not show the distribution list since this would violate the privacy of my fellow Board members. However, I wanted to share the general message with the GNSO because it is directly relevant to your role and responsibility. <BEGIN EMAIL EXCERPT> Section II.C.8 of Amendment 6 to the MoU (http://www.icann.org/general/amend6-jpamou-17sep03.htm) required the following deliverables from ICANN . Specifically, to "define and implement a predictable strategy for selecting new TLDs using straightforward, transparent, and objective procedures that preserve the stability of the Internet (strategy development to be completed by September 30, 2004 and implementation to commence by December 31, 2004). Currently staff through Olof Nordling is working on (sic) this gTLD process. Unfortunately, at no time during the past two years to my knowledge has ICANN Board and/or staff made a formal request to the GNSO on this issue, notwithstanding the fact that Article X of the ICANN bylaws state that the "Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), ... shall be responsible for developing and recommending to the ICANN Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains." <END EMAIL EXCERPT> I am very interested in feedback from the Council on your views on the best way for Council to begin to address policy development in this important area. Best regards, Michael P.S. I am also working on a summary of yesterday's Board teleconference which included a resolution in connection with ICANN's Strategic Plan. It was also decided yesterday that the Board should have another teleconference in approximately two weeks time. When this agenda is made available, I will publish it to the list again.