Hello All,

"Council resolves to initiate a Policy Development Process in line with it's 17 January 2006 request for an issues report the intent of which was to address the broader policy issues raised."

Vote: 19 votes in favour, Marilyn Cade, Philip Sheppard, Grant Forsyth, (CBUC) Ute Decker, Kiyoshi Tsuru, (IPC) Tony Holmes, Tony Harris, Greg Ruth, (ISPCPC) Robin Gross (NCUC), Bruce Tonkin (2), Ross Rader (2), Tom Keller (2)(Registrars constituency), Maureen Cubberley, Sophia Bekele, Avri Doria (Nominating committee appointees), (18 votes) Kiyoshi Tsuru voted a proxy in favour for Lucy Nichols (IPC) who was absent.

6 votes against, Cary Karp (2), Ken Stubbs (2), June Seo (2)(gTLD registries constituency)

1 abstention Mawaki Chango (NCUC) 1 person was not on the call and did not provide a proxy, Norbert Klein (NCUC)

Please also note that for this motion to pass, it required a "a Supermajority Vote of the Council members present". "A Supermajority Vote means a vote of more than sixty-six (66) percent of the members present at a meeting of the applicable body." (for reference see section 3(c) and section 16 of Annex A to the ICANN bylaws) Qourom for a meeting is defined as "Members entitled to cast a majority of the total number of votes of GNSO Council members then in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business" There were a total of 19, out of a possible 21, Council members present at the meeting (Norbert Klein and Lucy Nichols were not present) representing a total of 25 votes out of a possible 27 votes. This met the requirement for quorum. The motion was carried with 18 votes from members present, which represented a SuperMajority Vote of the Council members present. Regards, Bruce Tonkin