Dear Council Members: Given the topic of discussion today regarding IDN TLD policy, I thought the council might find the following excerpt from the proposed ITU guidelines in connection with .INT rather interesting, see http://www.itu.int/md/meetingdoc.asp?type=mitems&lang=e&parent=T05-SG02- 051206-TD-GEN-0106 8.2 Internationalized top-level domain name When policies regarding internationalized top-level domain names are established, the applicant shall have the right to register domain names under internationalized top-level domains corresponding to the characters "int" in Arabic, Chinese and Russian, these being the official languages of the United Nations in which "int" is not rendered as an IRA string, as well as other non-IRA strings corresponding to "int" in other languages as appropriate. Best regards, Michael D. Palage

Two agenda items for our upcoming Council call: 1) Can we invite an update on the litigation and .com agreements for the upcoming Council meeting? 2) Also, it seems to me that the topic of how we are planning to address the identified policy issues mentioned in our motion must be a priority of the Council discussion. I see four possible elements to address via policy, or "advice" at a minimum for this discussion: "automatic/perpetual assumption of renewals" Approach to funding model changes Ceilings on registry prices Adherence to consensus policy in negotiated agreements [e.g. the failure to rely on the consensus policy for new registry services in the proposed .com agreement] Obviously, there is a timeliness issue which must be addressed, in terms of how Council will deliver a short turn around on policy guidance/consensus policy on the areas it agrees to address, per the motion approved, and sent to the Board. And, if this is my first email to any of you out there, Happy 2006! Regards, Marilyn -----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:02 AM To: council@gnso.icann.org Subject: [council] FW: Motion from GNSO Council regarding the proposed .com agreement -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Tonkin Sent: Thursday, 22 December 2005 4:01 PM Subject: Motion from GNSO Council regarding the proposed .com agreement To: Chair, ICANN Board From: Chair, GNSO Council Hello Vint, Please pass onto the Board the following motion passed by the GNSO Council in its meeting in Vancouver on Friday 2 Dec 2005. "Whereas the GNSO constituencies participated in a review of the proposed settlement and have detailed statements on issues of concern; Whereas the GNSO Council supports the conclusion of the litigation between ICANN and Verisign; Whereas the GNSO Council does not support all articles within this proposed settlement; Whereas the GNSO Council believes that there are broader questions raised in the proposed settlement that need to be first addressed by the GNSO; The GNSO Council resolves: That the ICANN Board should postpone adoption of the proposed settlement while the Council fully investigates the policy issues raised by the proposed changes." Regards, Bruce Tonkin