All

Following the failure to hold the planned conference call yesterday and difficulties in rearranging, in order to advance the work of the Constituency discussions have taken place between Wolf-Ulrich Knoben, Tony Harris and myself and I would like to propose the following way forward on the issues that were on the agenda for yesterday.

· New gTLds Rec 6 – public comment on WG report.

The ISPCP will support the draft Board Resolution.

· Vertical Integration

As the WG are unable to reach consensus at the moment the ISPCP will support the Board in their resolution taken during their Trondheim meeting, for this round of gTLDs, on the basis that further delays to the programme are untenable. However the ISPCP will offer support for the continuation of the WG with the aim of resolving this issue in a satisfactory manner before any further rounds of new gTLDs. For this round it is the view of the ISPCP that the status quo situation should remain.

· JAS (support for gTLD applicants).

Accepting that some parties within the GNSO cannot support the Board resolution that financial support will not be available to applicants for this round of new gTLDs, the ISPCP will support the Board resolution for this round. For future rounds the ISPCP would support further discussions on this point, particularly as ICANN would have then gained additional revenue that could be considered as a means of addressing some of those needs.

· GNSO Chair and Vice Chair elections

The ISPCP view discussion over the timetable and process for these elections as urgent and will raise this matter within the CSG. Discussions within the Constituency will take place prior to the Cartagena meeting.

· FY10 plan for enhancing SSR

Wolf-Ulrich will prepare a draft Constituency response and circulate for comment before submission (cut off date to respond is 3^rd November).

· CSG special meeting in Washington (12^th October)

Those people from the ISPCP attending this meeting by phone or in person should look to ensure that the CSG Charter;

- Does not specify that the CSG will speak for the CSG Constituencies on issues where there is not full consensus

- Does not take away the ability of any Constituency to act independently on issues where consensus does not exist

- Does not impose rigid constraints or limit flexibility to determine working, financial, or process arrangements of any Constituency.

The ISPCP will also propose an additional agenda item for this meting; GNSO Chair/Vice Chair elections is added.

Unless major concern is expressed over any of the above points the proposal to hold a rearranged ISPCP call on Thursday 7^th will be withdrawn.

Please respond ASAP if you wish to raise any issues.

Regards

Tony