A huge three cheers for our NCUC Council representatives -- Norbert, Robin 
and Mawaki -- who led a successful fight (against many odds) to win today!  A 
huge amount of work went on behind the scenes to educate and share ideas with 
others on Council.  I have never been more pleased with ICANN.

Thank you!  Kathy

> 
> Dear NCUC colleagues,
> 
> just a short note after the GNSO Council teleconference (in which also 
> Robin Gross and Mawaki Chango participated, the other two NCUC delegates):
> 
> One agenda item was to handle the two WHOIS purpose drafts, where 
> Formulation 1 had been preferred over Formulation 2 by us  (and those 
> who had been pressing for Formulation 2  withdrew it in Wellington - we 
> had a third text today, which was supposed to be an amendment replacing 
> 1 and 2.
> 
> First this "amendment" was voted down 17 to 9, and then the original 
> Formulation 1 was voted in 18 to 9 - basically from the registries, 
> registrars, the three Nomination Committee appointees, and our NCUC 
> votes, while the Business, Intellectual Property, and ISP constituencies 
> were in the minority during the vote.
> 
> There were again several suggestions NOT to vote which would have led to 
> a further delay as so often before - especially also an intervention 
> from an observer/guest in the GNSO Council (I want to clarify the status 
> later) of the US government representative on the GAC, who cautioned 
> against a hasty vote (on an issue which is going on for 7 years already, 
> and has been on the respective Task Force list and open for public 
> comments at different stages).
> 
>