Mighty good summary. Thanks. The workshop early February is organized
by the GNSO, not ICANN. Not only council members but also other people
from constituencies can participate. If it is in Amsterdam, I will be
there, please God.

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, at 15:49 [=GMT-0800], Robin Gross wrote:

> I just wanted to briefly update the list on the discussion from today's
> GNSO policy council tele-conference.  Here are the main points:
>
> The Whois Task Force will "explore a 3-tier approach" for evaluating who
>   may access personal information of domain name registrants.
>
> The ICANN staff will be working to organize a series of tele-conference
> meetings with all the Constituencies in the coming weeks regarding the
> ICANN Strategic Plan.
>
> On Feb. 7-8, 2005, ICANN will hold a "consultative workshop" on its
> Strategic Plan (probably in Amsterdam).  Members of ICANN
> constituencies, liaisons, and counselors are invited to attend.
> Marilyn Cade said that there are opportunities to present different
> viewpoints on the Strategic Plan at this workshop.
>
> A resolution was passed to initiate an issues report on the "problems
> caused by contention for domain names made available by a gTLD
> registry", so that Council can subsequently decide if a policy
> development process is appropriate.
>
> Marc, please add to or correct this summary as you see fit.  Thanks!
>
> Robin
>