[council] Board letter to GNSO Council

[Andrei Kolesnikov]

Glen, please subscribe me to the list. Very important subject.

--andrei

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-
> council at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Glen de Saint Gery
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 11:06 AM
> To: Avri Doria; Council GNSO
> Subject: RE: [council] Board letter to GNSO Council
> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> the mailing list is up and working:
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> 
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> Avri Doria, Chuck Gomes and Jeff Neuman are subscribed to the list.
> Please let me know who else would like to join the drafting team and be
> added to the list.
> 
> Thank you.
> Kind regards,
> 
> Glen
> 
> 
> From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-
> council at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Avri Doria
> 
> 
> On 15 Oct 2009, at 14:23, Stéphane Van Gelder wrote:
> 
> > If we do decide to go for a DT,
> 
> I think this is a good idea as a way to start and fits patterns that
> have proven successful in taking the first steps in recent efforts.
> 
> I do not want to wipe the weekend end schedule for this, however, as
> we have a published agenda for the weekend and have people committed
> to those tasks who are planing to come to Seoul in time or those
> meetings.
> 
> This does not minimize the importance of starting on the Board letter
> on Specific Trademark Issues (STI) and DAGv3 and that is why I think
> the suggestion about forming a DT a good idea.  Because of the press
> of time, we cannot wait for a meeting to do this.  So I am suggesting
> we start now.
> 
> I propose forming a DT composed of participants each SG and the active
> Liaison groups who are willing to focus their time next week (perhaps
> even finding time for a teleconference) and  on the weekend to come up
> with a plan and start the work for the council to discuss/accept at
> the Wednesday open meeting and at the Thursday meeting.
> 
> Unless there is strong objection from the members of the council, I
> ask each SG to name 2-3 members and the active ACSO liaison groups to
> name 1 representative each for the STI-DT  and ask Glen (or some
> member of staff who is not traveling at the moment) to set up a
> mailing list, with open archive, for that team immediately.  I think
> it is a good suggestion for those SGs that have members who were on
> the IRT as either members or observers to consider including them
> among the 2-3 volunteers.  I think the SGs should find people in the
> SG, not necessarily council members to populate these meeting - and
> recommend that the people doing this find alternatives to replace (at
> least temporarily) them in other other ongoing ICANN tasks (except of
> course for council membership).
> 
> We do have some unused meting room space on Saturday (11am on), so I
> suggest we schedule this group consider an open meeting during this
> opne time.
> 
> The topic has already been scheduled for the Wednesday open meeting
> (https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?agenda_28_oct_2009
> ), and has already been spoken of as the main topic for the Thursday
> meeting (https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?
> agenda_29_oct_2009).
> 
> a.
>