Proposed agenda and related documents http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020617.NCteleconf-agenda.html

List of attendees:

MP3 recording of the meeting by the Secretariat: http://www.dnso.org/dnso/mp3/20020801.NCteleconf.mp3

Quorum present at 15:10 (all times reported are CET which is UTC + 2 during summer time in the northern hemisphere).

Philip Sheppard chaired this NC teleconference.

Item 2. Summary of last meeting:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020724.NCteleconf-minutes.html

Item 4. ICANN Reform - discussion and vote on revised NC resolution on the composition of the new GNSO Council
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020726.NCresolution-Reformv3.htm

Philip Sheppard introduced a revised NC resolution on Reform saying that after the Board's conditional adoption of the Blueprint (subject to geographic diversity and a bottom up process), and following input received from Council members, he proposed Council focus on one issue, namely, the number of constituency representatives on the proposed GNSO council.
 
Marilyn Cade proposed a friendly amendment to make it clear the NC may have future resolutions. This was agreed.  Support for the motion was expressed by Marilyn Cade, Ken Stubbs, Tony Harris, Tony Holmes and Elisabeth Porteneuve, all of whom felt that 3 representatives would both better manage the workload and assure better geographic diversity. 

Friendly amendments were made by Bruce Tonkin, Marilyn Cade, Ken Stubbs and Tony Harris which emphasised in particular the workload of Council and the importance of three representatives to share that workload.

Philip Sheppard proposed voting on the full resolution as amended. This was seconded by Bruce Tonkin.

Whereas the Names Council has produced a set of recommendations for ICANN evolution and reform;

Whereas, the ICANN Board at its Bucharest meeting in June 2002 resolved that the Board endorses the Evolution and Reform Committee (ERC) Blueprint for Reform, and described it as being broad outlines;

Whereas the Board instructed the ERC to oversee implementation with the participation of the ICANN community;

Whereas the Board resolved that further opportunities for strengthening ICANN's capacity to fulfill its mission should be utilized;

Whereas the Board instructed the ERC to take due account of certain fundamental issues: 
- geographic and cultural diversity in all parts of ICANN structure, 
- a policy development processes that enhances and promotes a transparent bottom-up process.

GNSO council.
The Blueprint's proposed two representatives per Constituency fails the Board's test of geographic and cultural diversity within the constituency. With three representatives per constituency, the majority of ICANN regions ARE represented. With two, the majority of ICANN regions are NOT adequately represented.

The Blueprint's proposed two representatives per Constituency fails the Board's test of a bottom-up process. Experience has shown that three representatives improves the constituencies ability to share the workload of a council member, to be able to participate in task forces of the council, and to outreach to multiple regions, thus enhancing and promoting a transparent bottom-up process.

Without prejudice to future NC commentary in this area, the Names Council resolves therefore to recommend the following implementation of the Blueprint, without which ICANN will fail to take account of the above fundamental issues:

there should be three representatives per Constituency on the GNSO council.

11 voted in favour, 1 abstention (gTLD), no vote was recorded for Roger Cochetti or Philipp Grabensee.
The motion was carried.
Decision 2: motion adopted.

Commentary on preliminary report of Evolution Reform Committee policy development task force
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020726.NCresolution-Reformv3.htm

Marilyn Cade commented that much had been learnt about policy development over the last few years but this learning was not being reflected in the output of the ERC TF on policy development. 

Bruce Tonkin, a member of the Names Policy Development Process Assistance Group (NPDPAG), said that there had been a marked shift in procedure from the first call of the ERC TF which sought wide participation to the second which appeared to be driven from the top. Harold Feld emphasised the maturing process of the Names Council and that restructuring should look at the good work in particular of the last 6 months, to which Bruce Tonkin added that this maturing process also benefited from new documented procedures that the Names Council now had.  

(Discussion continued after a break to handle the admin items below). 
Philip Sheppard said that any general or particular input to the Evolution Reform committee policy development group could be transmitted to the committee by Bruce Tonkin or himself.
Tony Harris quoting section 6 from the present ICANN bylaws on the structure of the board of directors that requires international representation. "One citizen of a country situated in each geographical region can serve as an At-Large director on the Board" asked whether the same bylaws would be applied or what policy would be implemented to replace it with regard to the eight directors elected from the nominating committee.
Alexander Svensson, GA alternate chair, asked the members of the task force to consider the role of the GA as it would be disadvantageous to tag on a role at the end or allow the GA to become a mere mailing list.  He drew attention to a document, "Reforming the GA", authored by Thomas Roessler and himself.
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc10/pdf00002.pdf
Philip Sheppard said that the definition in the blueprint of the GA is narrow but that the current outreach role of the GA beyond constituencies was a part of the work of the task force on public outreach chaired by Becky Burr.

Ken Stubbs proposed Council set a provisional date for a meeting in August. The Chair proposed August 29, 2002.
Decision 3: motion adopted

Item 3: Administrative items.

a) Approval timetable NC chair elections
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/200208.NCchair-elections.htm
Decision 4: timetable approved.

b) Election by the task force of J.Scott Evans as chairman of the UDRP Task Force.
Decision 5: elected UDRP chair confirmed.

c) Board Elections.
The time has come to elect a DNSO representative on the Board, at present filled by Alejandro Pisanty.
ICANN has given no response to a request for clarification on this point in view of the current Reform process.

Ken Stubbs commented that the Names Council is still operating and has administrative responsibilities as an on-going concern which should not be stopped. Elisabeth Porteneuve said that another supporting organisations had proceeded with an election to replace a board member. 

The teleconference ended at 16:00