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[announce] NCtelecon 18 February 2000, results
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ICANN/DNSO
DNSO Names Council Teleconference on February 18th, 2000 - minutes
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February 18th, 2000.
Proposed agenda and related documents:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20000218.NCtelecon-agenda.html
Adopted agenda:
1. Election of Names Council Chair for next 6 month (until Yokohama
meeting)
2. Status report from WGB Co-Chairs (Kathy Kleinman/Philip Sheppard/Mike
Palage)
3. Status report from WGC Co-Chair (Jonathan Weinberg)
4. Status report from WGD Co-Chair (Theresa Swinehart)
5. Status report from WGE Co-Chair (Youn Jung Park)
6. Creation of .eu
7. Budget report
8. Agenda for the Cairo meeting
9. Berkman Center Proposal on Names Council Meetings -Process/Procedural
Rules
10. Status Report from GA Chairs
List of attendees:
Tony Harris ISPCP absent
Hirofumi Hotta ISPCP
Michael Schneider ISPCP
Philip Sheppard Business
Masanobu Katoh Business
Theresa Swinehart Business
Erica Roberts Registrars absent
Ken Stubbs Registrars
Don Telage gTLD absent, replaced by Chuck Gomes
Caroline Chicoine IP
Axel Aus der Muhlen IP absent
Guillermo Carey IP absent
Dennis Jennings ccTLD
Patricio Poblete ccTLD
Raul Echeberria NCDNH absent
Kathryn Kleiman NCDNH absent, replaced by Dany Vandromme
Youn Jung Park NCDNH
Louis Touton ICANN Legal Counselor
Andrew McLaughlin ICANN Senior Adviser
Roberto Gaetano GA Chair part time
Ben Edelman Harvard, webcasting
Elisabeth Porteneuve DNSO Secretariat
Chair Caroline Chicoine (IPC) until her plane departure, then Ken Stubbs
(Registrars)
Quorum present
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1. Election of Names Council Chair for next 6 month (until Yokohama
meeting)
It was resolved that until July Yokohama meeting Ken Stubbs (Registrars)
will act as the NC Chair, helped on the ad hoc basis
by Dennis Jennings (ccTLD) and Caroline Chicoine (IPC).
2. Status report from WGB Co-Chairs (Kathy Kleinman/Philip Sheppard/Mike
Palage)
Working Group B intends to have an interim report available for
consideration by the Names Council and the Board at the Cairo meeting.
Kathy Kleiman and Philip Sheppard have recently put together and posted
to WG B a document designed to refresh the path to consensus and reach
common ground on new gTLDs and the treatment of famous names.
The NC stressed out the importance to have all the Constituencies
represented in both WG B and WG C.
3. Status report from WGC Co-Chair (Jonathan Weinberg)
Jon Weinberg did a good job, and identified what are the problems.
However it was also felt than the same questions are discussed over and
over again since years, and whoever have any opinion voiced it. The
agressive outreach for participation has been made, and should be
documented. It is expected than after Cairo meeting an analysis of
results will be made and put forward. During Cairo meeting the NC will
elect the liaison co-chair for the WG-C.
4. .EU
Philip Sheppart reported on .EU subject discussed at European
Commission meeting held in Brussels on Feb 17th. A quite enthousiastic
support from citizens, companies and governments in favor of .EU
creation. .EU is on the ISO 3166 reserve list standing for the Euro
currency. The European Union want to use it as a TLD for the territory
of the European Union. The justification for this is that it is on a
list from which to date ccTLDs have been created. The six weeks
comments period is underway in Europe, and after the consultation the
Commission will proceed.
Dennis Jennings, recalling his neutral position to the .EU creation,
made objections with regards to the current lack of process for the
evalluation and creation of ccTLDs. Louis Touton recalled the current
policy with regards to the creation of new ccTLDs indeed exists and
follows the ICP-1 document.
The NC felt that there is nothing to debate about .EU at this stage, no
formal request being received at ICANN.
5. Budget
The status of payements for the DNSO expenses to ICANN show $US5000
collected.
The NC requests formally than the ICANN reimbourses the NC debt of $US
2600 to Berkman Center for webcasting.
The budget for DNSO services as estimated by the Secretariat to $US
250000 for a yearly services was debated.
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc03/msg00428.html
Whereas the budget was estimated very reasonable by Dennis Jennings, he
stressed that the difficulty remains in raising of the DNSO fundings
outside of the ICANN budget. Some are concerned that many ressources
are needed to deal with the big noise on the GA-ga list. Whereas
Constituencies are already big contributors to the ICANN budget, they
have difficulties to justify anything additionnal to the DNSO.
The small commitee including ICANN staff, Elisabeth Porteneuve, Dennis
Jennings, Philip Sheppard and somebody from Registrars shall revisit
the budget proposal in Cairo.
6. WGD
The WG-D report is being prepared for public comments, and will be
submitted shortly.
7. WGE
The WG-E prepared and published its report on the dnso.org website, the
group will hold a meeting in Cairo.
8. NC agenda for Cairo
o Chair report
o Budget report
o GA report
o ICANN staff summary
o Intake Commitee
o Report from working groups: WGD, WGB, WGE and WGC
9. Report from the GA Chair (Roberto Gaetano)
The first main concern of the GA Chair and Alternate was to establish
and adopt mailing rules for the GA-ga list. The next step is to
establish a discussion between GA-ga list and the GA body. There are
fears than the GA-ga list will never do anything except discussing
procedures. In fact hundreds are interested to discuss real domain
names matters, and the DNSO needs to find a way to do it. During
physical GA meeting in Cairo it is expected that Constituencies members
will attend the GA meeting, and than all forces will take
responsibility in GA life.
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