This ad hoc group is not limited to council members.  I specifically 
asked this question in the council meeting in San Juan and was told it 
would not be restricted to council members.

Thanks,
Robin


Milton L Mueller wrote:

> Can our Council members nominate Danny to participate in the tasting 
> WG on our behalf? Or is this restricted to Council members?
>  
> For the record, here's my initial perspective on domain tasting:
> -- The Pay per Click and domainer industries are not, in and of 
> themselves, big problems to NC users.
> -- The free 5-day grace period cannot be considered a right of 
> domainers; it was created for other purposes
> -- Insofar as the grace period encourages registrars to hold on to 
> domains that should drop into the common pool it is not a good thing
>  
> reactions to these talking points welcome.
> --MM
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Non-Commercial User Constituency on behalf of Danny Younger
> *Sent:* Mon 7/2/2007 8:06 AM
> *To:* Milton L Mueller; [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* [NCUC-DISCUSS] Domain Tasting
>
> In San Juan, the GNSO Council resolved:
>
> 1) To acknowledge the Issues Report on Domain Tasting;
>
>
> 2) To create a small, ad hoc group of GNSO
> representatives to direct and consider further
> research on domain tasting, including but not limited
> to the Questions posed by ICANN staff on page 30 of
> the Issues Report, and to draft terms of reference for
> a possible GNSO policy development process in a timely
> way;
>
> 3) To direct the ICANN staff to work with the ad hoc
> group to gather further information and data about the
> domain tasting issue and make further recommendations
> on effectively scoping a PDP;
>
> 4) To consider the further research and terms of
> reference, receive a status report on non-PDP
> mechanisms regarding domain tasting, and to consider
> whether to launch a policy development process on
> domain tasting at the  September 2007 GNSO Council
> meeting.
>
> I would appreciate the opportunity to be part of this
> "small, ad hoc group". 
>
> regards,
> Danny Younger
>
>
>
>
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