[council] RE: ICANN Board agenda for 12 March 2010 in Nairobi

[Bruce Tonkin]

Hello Adrian,

> 
> Can you elaborate on what Item 5b. actually means?
> 
> Will the Board be voting on the acceptance of the EOI process so that
> it can be started?


From:
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-15feb10-en.htm

"The Board plans to decide whether to conduct an Expressions of Interest
(EOI) exercise for new gTLDs at the ICANN Meeting in Nairobi. The Board
and the community will have the opportunity to discuss the Expressions
of Interest and Pre-Registrations model, which takes into account the
community feedback during the two recent public comment periods. Besides
the background information and description of the current proposed
model, the Explanatory Memo also presents some discussion points about
costs and other implementation aspects.  

Here is the current Explanatory Memo - 

Discussion of the Expressions of Interest (EOI)/Pre-Registration Process
Model : 

http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/discussion-eoi-pre-registration
-process-model-15feb10-en.pdf "

The panel session on EOI will take place on Monday 8 March at 11am -
Nairobi time.

See: http://nbo.icann.org/node/8877

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin