[At-Large] GNSO Liaison Report

[Alan Greenberg]

The GNSO and sub-groups have been quite active in the last month, and 
there will be a Council meeting on Thursday, October 11 addressing 
several issues.

The major one from the ALAC's perspective is the Domain tasting issue 
which was undertaken at our request. A working group has been looking 
at what next steps should be taken and a report has been made to the 
GNSO Council 
(http://www.gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-domain-tasting-adhoc-outcomes-report-final.pdf). 
My hope (and expectation) is that the Council will decide to start a 
Policy Development Process (PDP) to address Domain Tasting with a 
relatively short time-line (reporting back prior to the New Delhi 
meeting in February 2008).

In late September, ICANN Staff on a Draft IGO Domain Name Dispute 
Resolution Procedure (IGO = International Governmental Organizations) 
-  http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-igo-drp-report-v2-28sep07.pdf. 
This is primarily aimed at how to handle disputed related related to 
new gTLDs which will be approved over the next years. For background 
on the IGO issue, see 
http://www.gnso.icann.org/issues/igo-names/issues-report-igo-drp-15jun07.pdf.

In September the GNOS decided to form a short-term planning group to 
analyse and prioritize the policy issues raised in the report 
"Communication to GNSO on Policy Issues Arising from Transfer Review" 
before the Council further considers a PDP on any of the work 
discussed in the report. Council will decide how to proceed. For 
background on this, see the GNSO Review of Inter-Registrar Transfer 
Policy section of http://www.icann.org/transfers/. Since this is an 
issue relevant to domain registrants, and particularly to individual 
users, it will bear careful watching. Note that working group 
predates the RegisterFly problems.

Alan

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