[At-Large] Board liaison report

[Vittorio Bertola]

All,

The Board met by teleconference on September 11. A detailed report is 
available at http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-11sep07.htm .

The main decisions at the meeting were:
- draft terms of reference for the Board review were put up for public 
comment;
- Hagen Hultzsch, former Board member from Germany, was appointed as new 
Nomcom Chair for 2008; the Board also confirmed Mr. Ribeiro Filho from 
Brazil as Nomcom representative for academic institutions;
- Delhi was chosen as host for the ICANN meeting in February 2008, while 
Dubai was recommended for a regional meeting in 2008;
- .kp (North Korea) was delegated;
- .me and .rs (Montenegro and Serbia) were delegated, on the basis that 
.yu should be discontinued in a reasonable period of time;
- there was some discussion on some gTLD contracts, particularly .aero 
and .post, which present some open issues;
- there was some discussion on Whois, where staff reported that support 
for OPOC is vanishing and the GNSO policy process is likely to end up in 
nothing.

Discussion on the Board list, apart from general chat, was mostly 
focused on the issue of succession to Vint. The matter was deferred to a 
special meeting held on October 4 in Frankfurt, including the new Board 
members for 2008, in which the new Chairman was to be picked, even if 
informally. Wendy attended that meeting for the ALAC, so she will 
supplement this report with hers.

Regards,
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