[At-Large] Preliminary Report for the 23 January 2008 Special Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors

[Wendy Seltzer]

At-Large may be interested in the preliminary minutes of the Jan. 23 
Board meeting.  <http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-23jan08.htm>

In particular, note this resolution on the AGP, aimed at ending the 
abuses of domain tasting:

"...
Whereas, the Board believes that the withdrawal of ICANN's waiver of 
ICANN's non-refundable transaction fee to the deletion of names within 
the AGP will substantially end the practice of abusing the AGP;

THEREFORE, the Board resolves (2008.01.04) to encourage ICANN's 
budgetary process to include fees for all domains added, including 
domains added during the AGP, and encourages community discussion 
involved in developing the ICANN budget,subject to both Board approval 
and registrar approval of this fee."

In addition, an ALAC review Working Group was constituted and a contract 
is being negotiated with Westlake Consulting.

You will see the Board also discussed IDN ccTLDs and gTLDs and new gTLDs 
and accepted the GNSO's recommendations on contractual conditions (PDP 
Feb-06)

Thanks to board and staff for producing such prompt and descriptive 
minutes.

--Wendy


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Subject: 	[alerts] ICANN News Alert -- Preliminary Report for the 23
January 2008 Special Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors
Date: 	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:47:13 -0800
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     News Alert

http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-23jan08.htm

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     Preliminary Report for the 23 January 2008 Special Meeting of the
     ICANN Board of Directors

Formal Minutes are still to be approved by the ICANN Board during its
next Board Meeting

28 January 2008

ICANN has posted to its website a Preliminary Report
<http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-23jan08.htm> of the Board
meeting held on 23 January 2008. The Board will consider the Preliminary
Report in adopting formal Minutes during its next board meeting.

ICANN's Board meets regularly (approximately once per month). The Board
is committed to being as transparent and accountable as possible. As
soon as possible following each meeting, ICANN staff posts a preliminary
report of the meeting. The report outlines detailed discussion from the
board meeting and demonstrates how decisions are reached.

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-- 
Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.org
phone: +1.914.374.0613 // office: 617.373.7331
Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
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