Dear Team, FYI - please see Liz Gasster's note below regarding the GNSO Council's vote to delay the thick Whois PDP until the end of the year. Regards, Denise Denise Michel ICANN Advisor to the President & CEO denise.michel@icann.org +1.408.429.3072 mobile +1.310.578.8632 direct ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Liz Gasster <liz.gasster@icann.org> Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:34 PM Subject: FW: REVISED motion to delay the 'thick' Whois Policy Development Process To: Denise Michel <denise.michel@icann.org> Hi Denise,**** ** ** The WHOIS Review Team may be interested in the following resolution that the GNSO Council passed at its meeting last Thursday. The GNSO Council voted to delay the start of a PDP on the issue of “thick” WHOIS until the first meeting following 30 November, 2012. Note the following “Whereas” clause which speaks to the delay: “taking into account the current workload of the GNSO community, the GNSO Council voiced support for a delay in the start of the PDP until both ICANN staff and GNSO resources are available to deal with this”.**** ** ** To be clear, the transcript will reflect that ICANN staff resources would have been made available had the Council opted to proceed.**** ** ** Best regards, Liz**** ** ** *From:* owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] *On Behalf Of *Glen de Saint Géry *Sent:* Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:51 AM *To:* council@gnso.icann.org *Subject:* [council] REVISED motion to delay the 'thick' Whois Policy Development Process **** ** ** ** ** Dear All,**** ** ** Apologies, below is the correct amended motion to delay the ‘thick’ Whois Policy Development Process that the Council voted on and which carried unanimously by voice vote.**** ** ** *Motion to delay the ‘thick’ Whois Policy Development Process * ** ** Whereas the GNSO Council requested an Issue Report on ‘thick’ Whois at its meeting on 22 September 2011 (see http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#201109);**** ** ** Whereas a Preliminary Issue Report on ‘thick’ Whois was prepared by staff and posted on 21 November 2011 for public comment (see http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-21nov11-en.htm);**** ** ** Whereas a Final Issue Report on ‘thick’ Whois was published on 2 February 2012 (see http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/final-report-thick-whois-02feb12-en.pdf);... ** ** Whereas the Final Issue Report recommends that the GNSO Council proceed with a Policy Development Process limited to consideration of the issues discussed in this report, and the General Counsel of ICANN has indicated the topic is properly within the scope of the ICANN policy process and within the scope of the GNSO;**** ** ** Whereas the GNSO Council initiated a Policy Development Process at its meeting of 14 March 2012 (see http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#20120314-1);**** ** ** Whereas at its wrap up session on 15 March, taking into account the current workload of the GNSO community, the GNSO Council voiced support for a delay in the start of the PDP until both ICANN staff and GNSO resources are available to deal with this. **** ** ** THEREFORE BE IT:**** Resolved, the next step (creating a drafting team to develop a charter) of the ‘thick’ Whois PDP will be delayed until the first GNSO Council meeting after 30 November 2012.**** ** ** A recording of the meeting is available at:**** http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-council-20120412-en.mp3 Apologies for the confusion.**** ** ** Thank you. **** ** ** Kind regards,**** ** ** Glen**** ** ** ** ** Glen de Saint Géry**** GNSO Secretariat**** gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org**** http://gnso.icann.org**** ** **