Brief notes from the ISPCP conference call held on 13th January 2011 The call was held as preparation for the GNSO council meeting scheduled for the same day. 1. Joint Applicant support WG An original motion carried forward from the last meeting, proposed by Rafik Danmak was still on the table, proposing a charter extension in response to the ICANN Board resolution supporting applicants and calling for completion of a list of further work items. A counter motion opposing this extension had been tabled by Jeff Neuman, following which Wolf- Ulrich Knoben has attempted to find a compromise. However Wolf's proposal for a 'friendly amendment' has not been accepted by Geoff, therefore this will be voted on during the meeting. The ISPCP line will be to support Wolf-Ulrich's proposal, but if this fails the ISPs will offer support for Jeff Neumans proposal. 2. Registrar Accreditation Agreement A motion has been tabled to accept the report, but the Registrar's are unable to accept the proposal that requires the involvement of a third party in signing any agreement between ICANN and Registrars. The ISPs support this approach in principle but have issues over who the third party would be and how such an arrangement would be implemented. A final approach remains dependent upon the resolution of those concerns. 3. Status of Stakeholder Group and Constituency statements on Recommendation 6 The main issue concerns the ability of the Board to initiate further dialogue directly with the WG as this has the potential to short circuit the discussion and responsibility for this work with relevant Support Organizations. Working Group reports will all be submitted to relevant Support Organizations for ratification. The ISPCP view is that any WG report must not be filtered by the GNSO or any other S.O, although they are all entitled to either endorse or reject the outcome. Such a position must not inhibit any required further dialogue between the Board and any Constituency/part of the community. 4. Board Resolution on Consumer Choice, Competition and Innovation A briefing on this issue will be provided by Bruce Tonkin during the meeting. No voting is anticipated on this issue. Pending the outcome of this session ISPCP councilors will be seeking representative to engage in this work going forward. 5. Board Response to reconsideration requests This item is for discussion only, with no additional action required from ISP Councilors at this stage. 6. Operations Steering Committee (OSC) and Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC) and new Standing Committee. This item will consider actions required to take this work forward. The ISPCP will support the proposal to establish a new standing committee to oversee the implementation of the recommendations. The next ISPCP call will take place on Wednesday 26th January from 16.00 to 17.00 UTC with the following items included on the agenda; - Issue for the next GNSO meeting - ISPCP Charter - Arrangements for San Francisco - ISPCP website