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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">05 August 2004 </font> </p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proposed <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-gnso-05aug04.htm">agenda
and related documents</a><br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>List of attendees:</b><br>
Philip Sheppard - Commercial & Business users C.<br>
Marilyn Cade - Commercial & Business users C.<br>
Grant Forsyth - Commercial & Business users C. <br>
Greg Ruth - ISCPC - absent - apologies - proxy to Tony Harris<br>
Antonio Harris - ISCPC<br>
Tony Holmes - ISCPC - absent - apologies - proxy to Tony Harris<br>
Thomas Keller- Registrars - proxy to Alick Wilson for item 3 because of conflict
of interests<br>
Ross Rader - Registrars - proxy to Alick Wilson for item 3 because of conflict
of interests<br>
Bruce Tonkin - Registrars - proxy to Alick Wilson for item 3 because of conflict
of interests<br>
Ken Stubbs - gTLD registries<br>
Philip Colebrook - gTLD registries<br>
Cary Karp - gTLD registries<br>
Lucy Nichols - Intellectual Property Interests C - joined call late<br>
Niklas Lagergren - Intellectual Property Interests C - absent - apologies -
proxy to Lucy Nichols<br>
Kiyoshi Tsuru - Intellectual Property Interests C. <br>
Jisuk Woo - Non Commercial users C. - absent - apologies- proxy to Marc Schneiders<br>
Marc Schneiders - Non Commercial users C.<br>
Carlos Afonso - Non Commercial users C. - joined call late<br>
Alick Wilson <br>
Demi Getschko <br>
Amadeu Abril I Abril</font> - <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">proxy
to Alick Wilson for item 3 because of conflict of interests</font><br>
</p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">17 Council Members<br>
<br>
<a href="http://gnso.icann.org/council/old-procedures.shtml#Proxies">GNSO Council
Rule of Procedures</a> do not limit the number of proxies one person may hold.</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
All Council members confirmed their willingness to exercise the proxy votes
they held.<br>
<br>
Kurt Pritz - Vice President, Business Operations<br>
Tina Dam - Chief gTLD Registry Liaison <br>
Barbara Roseman - ICANN Staff Manager<br>
<br>
Thomas Roessler - ALAC Liaison</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Michael Palage - ICANN Board (GNSO
seat 14) - observer<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Paul Verhoef - Vice President, Policy
Development Support - absent - apologies<br>
Christopher Wilkinson - GAC Secretariat - absent - apologies<br>
Suzanne Sene - GAC Liaison - absent <br>
<br>
Glen de Saint Géry - GNSO Secretariat<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://gnso-audio.icann.org/GNSO-Council-20040805.mp3">MP3
Recording</a><br>
Quorum present at 12:05 UTC,<br>
<br>
<b>Bruce Tonkin </b>and <b>Philip Sheppard</b> chaired this teleconference.
<br>
<br>
<b>Item 1: Approval of Agenda </b><br>
<br>
Agenda approved <br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Item 2: Approval of the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-16jun04.htm">Minutes
of 16 June 2004</a> and <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-12jul04.htm">Minutes
of 12 July 2004</a><br>
<br>
Bruce Tonkin </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b>seconded
by<b> Ken Stubbs </b>moved the adoption of the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-16jun04.htm">Minutes
of 16 June 2004</a> and the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-12jul04.htm">Minutes
of 12 July 2004</a><br>
<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The motion carried unanimously<br>
<br>
<b>Decision 1: The <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-16jun04.htm">Minutes
of 16 June 2004</a> and the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-12jul04.htm">Minutes
of 12 July 2004</a> were adopted</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<b>Item 3: For decision: Criteria for designating a successor for the .net registry
<a href="http://www.gnso.icann.org/issues/dotnet/dotnet-reportv9.pdf">Version
9 (revised) </a><br>
<br>
Bruce Tonkin, </b><b> </b>in view of his <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg00536.html">conflict
of interest declaration</a> with respect to vote on .net criteria, handed the
chair to <b>Philip Sheppard</b>.<br>
<br>
<b>Philip Sheppard</b> asked whether there were other conflict of interest declarations.<br>
<a href="http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg00544.html">Thomas
Keller</a> , <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg00539.html">Amadeu
Abril lAbril, </a>and <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg00545.html">Ross
Rader</a> declared conflict of interests and gave their proxies with undirected
votes to <b>Alick Wilson</b>. <br>
<br>
<b>Philip Sheppard</b> read the proposed resolution before Council:<br>
<br>
"In response to the letter from Paul Verhoef on 31 March 2004 requesting that
the GNSO provide advice with a consensus statement defining the criteria to
be applied in the selection of a successor registry operator for .net, and in
accordance with section 5.2 and 4.3 of the .net registry agreement, the GNSO
recommends that the following criteria (as detailed in the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/issues/dotnet/dornet-reportv9.pdf">Final
report of the GNSO subcommittee </a>) </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">be
applied:<br>
<br>
- absolute criteria related to the targeting<br>
- absolute criteria related to continuity <br>
- absolute criteria related to policy compliance<br>
- absolute criteria related to stability, security, technical and financial
competence <br>
- relative criteria related to promotion of competition - relative criteria
relating to stability, security, technical and financial competence <br>
- relative criteria related to existing registry services, <br>
and provides the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/issues/dotnet/dotnet-reportv9.pdf">attached
written report</a> which includes all substantive submissions to the GNSO relating
to this recommendation, as required in section 4.3.1 of the .net agreement.
Absolute criteria are thresholds which an applicant is expected to meet, and
relative criteria become relevant once absolute criteria are met and are recommended
as a basis for comparison and evaluation of competing applications." <br>
<br>
<b>Alick Wilson</b> commented that he had been entrusted with 4 proxies, that
the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/issues/dotnet/dotnet-reportv9.pdf">report</a>
before Council had the unanimous supported of the GNSO Council .net subcommittee,
that there had been comprehensive opportunity for outreach, that the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/issues/dotnet/dotnet-reportv9.pdf">report</a>
had been open to two public comment periods and that the GNSO Constituencies
were all consulted. <br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Voting: 21 Votes in favour, 1 vote
against (counting for 2), 1 abstention (counting for 2), 2 councillors absent.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The resolution was passed by the
GNSO Council</font>.<br>
<b><br>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Decision 2: The resolution (as above)
on Designating a successor operator for the .net registry was approved as a
consensus statement, having a greater than two-thirds majority vote.<br>
<br>
Ken Stubbs, </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">supported by</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
Marilyn Cade </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and</font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
Cary Karp </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">proposed that
the statement crafted at the suggestion of the gTLD registry constituency members
at their constituency meeting on August 4 2004, be included as a covering letter
to the report.<br>
<br>
<b>Bruce Tonkin</b> proposed voting by name on the text and proxy votes were
reconfirmed. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"The GNSO believes that all
material provisions of the new .net Agreement should be made known to the public
in the draft and final RFPs. This includes, but is not limited to, any information
regarding the proposed fee structure to be paid by the subsequent .net registry
operator to ICANN. Only with such information can an applicant truly propose
a realistic, viable, and appropriate business, technical and financial model.
In addition, such information known in advance by the applicants will also help
in ensuring a smooth negotiation process with the successor operator after its
selection." <br>
<br>
Voting: 24 votes in favour, 3 abstentions.<br>
<br>
The motion was approved by the GNSO Council.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Decision 3: "The GNSO believes
that all material provisions of the new .net Agreement should be made known
to the public in the draft and final RFPs. This includes, but is not limited
to, any information regarding the proposed fee structure to be paid by the subsequent
.net registry operator to ICANN. Only with such information can an applicant
truly propose a realistic, viable, and appropriate business, technical and financial
model. In addition, such information known in advance by the applicants will
also help in ensuring a smooth negotiation process with the successor operator
after its selection." <br>
<br>
Philip Sheppard </b>seconded by<b> Ken Stubbs </b>moved a motion:</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Whereas, the GNSO Council .net subcommittee
had completed its work, the subcommittee be formally dissolved.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The motion was unanimously approved
by the GNSO Council. <br>
<br>
<b>Decision 4: Whereas, the GNSO Council .net subcommittee had completed its
work, the subcommittee be formally dissolved.<br>
<br>
Philip Sheppard </b>formally handed the chair back to<b> Bruce Tonkin.<br>
<br>
Item 4: Any Other Business.<br>
<br>
Bruce Tonkin </b>reported that the <a href="http://www.icann.org/tlds/gtld-initialreport-registryapproval.pdf">draft
initial report</a>, on the Procedure for use by ICANN in considering requests
for consent and related contractual amendments to allow changes in the architecture
or operation of a gTLD Registry, published on July 15 2004, brought to Council's
attention during the GNSO Council meeting in Kuala Lumpur on July 20, 2004 had
not received any comment. He proposed a GNSO Council teleconference on August
19, 2004 to discuss the report and approve putting the report out for a 20 day
public comment period.<br>
<br>
<b>Marilyn Cade </b>proposed adding to the next meeting agenda, the process
as related to new gTLDs.<br>
<br>
<b>Grant Forsyth</b> reminded Council that the ICANN Nominating Committee had
<a href="http://www.icann.org/announcement-02aug04.htm">extended the deadline
</a>for Statements of Interest to 25 August 2004 and urged councillors to participate
in the NomCom process in actively seeking qualified candidates for key positions
within ICANN.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<b>Bruce Tonkin</b> <b>declared GNSO meeting closed and thanked everybody for
participating.<br>
The meeting ended: 13:05 UTC.</b></font></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Next GNSO Council teleconference
will be held on Thursday 19 August 2004 </b><b>at 12:00 </b><b> UTC</b><br>
see: <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/">Calendar</a></font><br>
</li>
</ul>
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