[council] Status/report from ACSO meeting

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

Just got out of a ACSO meeting where the topic of the meeting for  
Seoul was discussed.

The GAC has suggested that the Seoul ACSO meeting focus on a topic  
from their letter to the Board Chair of 18 Aug 09. http://www.icann.org/correspondence/karklins-to-dengate-thrush-18aug09-en.pdf

Specially based on the following sentence:

"The GAC remains concerned that the threshold question has not been  
answered whether the introduction of new gTLDs provides potential  
benefits to consumers that will not be outweighed by the potential  
harms."

So the topic would be:

Whether the introduction of new gTLDs provides potential benefits to  
consumers that will not be outweighed by the potential harms

We have all been asked to get feedback from the various SOs and ACs  
before next week.

I have also reported this under the status section of the Agenda for  
this week.

a.