[council] Request to fellow Councilors for input and suggestions to WHOIS Workshop Planning Committee

["Cade,Marilyn S - LGCRP" <mcade@att.com>]

Dear fellow councilors

The WHOIS Workshop Planning committee, recently appointed by ICANN's President/CEO, (see below) held its first conf. call Saturday, to discuss planning for the Montreal workshops on WHOIS and related privacy and other issues, as requested by ICANN's President. The committee will host at least two more conference calls this week in order to plan the program for the two 1/2 day workshops now scheduled for Montreal's meeting. We began to outline the approach for the workshops on our initial call. 

Although all on the Committee are acting in their individual capacity as appointees to the Planning Committee, the chair of the Program Committee and the chair of the Council have agreed that I might solicit input from fellow Councilors, and I welcome that opportunity to seek your input and suggestions.  

Your input and suggestions on areas to be addressed, possible experts for presentations, and ideas about existing reports or other materials that you might suggest as background to be provided to support and inform the workshops would be most welcomed. To be most useful, I will need input by Thursday, June 12. Earlier suggestions will be helpful. 

You may post to me at mcade@att.com, or you may share your recommendations/input with the full Council, if you prefer.

In addition to suggesting topics or issues to be addressed, if you suggest a speaker, please provide email and telephone contact information, as well as a sentence or two regarding the nature of the topic you recommend that speaker for.  I will be provide all contributions to the rest of the committee as inputs for their consideration.  And, should a speaker be accepted by the Committee, it will expedite contact to have contact details already available.  

I apologize for the urgency of the request, but the Committee must move quickly to develop the workshops in order to issue invitations to speakers for the workshops.

Regards, 

Marilyn Cade








-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Tonkin [mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 4:09 AM
To: council@dnso.org
Subject: [council] ICANN Announces Whois Workshop Planning Committee for
Montréal


AS requested by the GNSO Council in its teleconference on 22 May 2003:

ICANN Announces Whois Workshop Planning Committee for Montréal
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-05jun03.htm

Marina del Rey, California USA (5 June 2003): ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey today announced the appointment of a Workshop Planning Committee to help coordinate a workshop on Whois and related issues at ICANN's meeting later this month in Montréal, Canada. The President's Whois Workshop Committee includes the following recognized leaders in this subject:

Elana Broitman 
Marilyn Cade 
Steve Crocker 
Sabine Dolderer 
Robin Layton 
Michael Palage 
George Papapavlou 
Mike Roberts (Chair) 
Thomas Roessler 
The Whois workshop is intended to initiate a period of discussion within the ICANN community on Whois and related privacy and other issues. The workshop is being held in response to a request from the GNSO Council, and in cooperation with the GAC's work program. Current plans call for a two-part workshop, scheduled for the mornings of Tuesday, 24 June 2003, and Wednesday, 25 June 2003.

For additional details on the ICANN meetings in Montréal, Canada (22-26 June 2003), please visit <http://www.icann.org/montreal/>. 

The meetings will be hosted by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). CIRA has posted additional information regarding the area, the meeting, and local hotels at <http://www.icannmontreal.ca/>.