<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Community:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am pleased to forward you the email below. At-Large has now become the first advisory committee ever to request an Issues Report of the GNSO Council on an issue of policy.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The report is to be delivered to the GNSO Council by 24th May 2007.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The At-Large request was supported by other ICANN constituencies, thanks in large part to the hard work of ALAC GNSO Liaison Alan Greenberg. Having multiple constituencies supporting a request like this is very important to the next steps in the Policy Development Process. The supporting constituencies are:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Registry Constituency</DIV><DIV>Commercial and Business Constituency</DIV><DIV>Intellectual Property Constituency</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>For those of you who are not familiar with the process which the request for an Issues Report is part of, please review the Description of the GNSO and Policy Development Process documents available in 4 languages at: <A href="https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?lisbon_documents">https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?lisbon_documents</A><BR><DIV><BR><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Resent-From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Nick Ashton-Hart <nick.ashton-hart@icann.org></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">9 May 2007 05:11:08 BDT</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Resent-To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton@spamcop.net></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>[At-Large] Fwd: Request for Issues Report on Domain Tasting</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To: GNSO Council <council@gnso.icann.org></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From: Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject: Request for Issues Report on Domain Tasting</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear Council members,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The At-Large Advisory Committee is requesting that ICANN staff prepare an Issues Report on Domain Tasting. The formal request is attached.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">According to ICANN Bylaws, no action is required from Council at this time. Once the Issues Report is delivered to the GNSO, Council must then decide whether or not to initiate a PDP.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Alan</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>