To all ISPCP members Below are the draft notes from yesterday's conference call. Comments are welcome for the next 7 days, following which the final version will be placed on the ISPCP web site. Please note the date for the next call - 11th May 2009 Regards Tony ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPCP Conference call held 15th April 2009-04-16 1. Update from GNSO Reform Working Groups Update on progress provided by ISPCP reps to the OSC, PPSC, GOT, PDPT teams. ISPCP representation on these committees does not currently align with the planned arrangements discussed at the ISPCP Constituency meeting in Mexico City. Details shown on the relevant Wiki sites are also out of alignment. Action: - Tony Holmes & Wolf-Ulrich Knoben to provide an updated participation list covering ISPCP participation and circulate to all members for comment and ratification. - Final agreed participation list to be forwarded to the GNSO secretariat with a request to update Wiki information. Concern expressed over the rate of progress within working groups and the need for improved coordination. It appears that having everything completed in order to seat the new GNSO Council at the Sydney meeting remains an unachievable target. A brief discussion took place over a paper recently received as an input from Ron Andruff to the OSC Ops team for their meeting later that day which proposed a set of high level operating principles. It was agreed the ISPCP reps should request more time to discuss this internally and no decision should be taken during today's meeting 2. ISPCP, BC & IP notification to the Board on GNSO Reform Attention was drawn to the background and formation of a Resolution (below) that had been passed to the Board expressing concern over lack of progress made within the Non-Commercial Stakeholder group covering requirements placed upon them during the discussions over a compromised solution on GNSO Reform. -------------------------------------------- Whereas the entire GNSO restructuring compromise of July 2008 was contingent on the replacement of the existing NCUC with a Non-Commercial and Individuals Stakeholder Group with the breadth, comprehensiveness and representativeness of the other three SGs; Whereas the creation of a Non-Commercial and Individuals Stakeholder Group with 6 seats on Council (a 100% increase from historic levels) was also contingent on a deep involvement from the at-large organisation in order to benefit from the years of work in building up the ALSs and RALOs as a credible way to solicit the input of individuals into GNSO policy making; Whereas none of the above has yet occurred; Whereas the BC, IPC and ISPCPs intentionally sacrificed 3 of their current 9 seats to make room for this broader non-commercial group and for the involvement of individuals via the at-large organisation in the belief that individuals and commercial users would share a commonality of purpose; The undersigned on behalf of their Constituencies request the Board: 1. To suspend the current timetable for GNSO structural reform until this change is seen to have taken place in the Non-Commercial & Individuals Stakeholder Group; 2. To direct staff to draw up by-law changes to reinstate 9 seats for the proposed Commercial Stakeholders Group and 3 seats for the Non-Commercial & Individuals Stakeholder Group should there be no positive development by 30 April 2009. For the BC, its Officers: Philip Sheppard Mike Rodenbaugh Zahid Jamil For the IPC: Steve Metalitz - President For the ISPCP: Tony Holmes - Chairman 3. New GNSO Constituencies Attention was drawn to the recent posting proposing a new Consumers Constituency, see http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-15apr09-en.htm Whilst not directly commenting on this proposal, the ISPCP remain concerned over an approach that enables new Constituencies to be created and dropped in a random fashion and the ability of individual's to form loose coalitions of like minds that have the potential to destabilise representation within stakeholder groups. 4. Formal communication between Constituencies and the Board Attention was drawn to information recently supplied by the GNSO policy staff showing examples that align with the temporary Board communication process which the Board set up in Cairo to formally submit Constituency resolutions to the Board. The aim is ensure timely and effective delivery of the message to all Board members and posting on their formal Board lists. The Board is still working on finalizing a long-term process for effectively delivering and circulating communications from community leaders and the public to the Board. 5. ICANN Board Review Wolf-Ulrich Knoben presented the initial input he had circulated to the ISPCP list and Jaime Wagner the comments he had submitted. Consensus was achieved on the point that the number of Board members shouldn't be reduced, but not on remuneration for Board members. Action: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben to produce draft ISPCP input and circulate for comment. 6. Date of next call The next ISPCP call will take place on Monday 11th May at 13.30 UTC.