NCUC meeting minutes, July 19, 2004 3:00 - 5:00 Attending: Hassan Research division of PTT Iran Horacio Cadiz, PHNet, EC member for Asia Pacific region [HC] Milton Mueller, Syracuse U., NCUC Chair [MM] Norbert Klein, Cambodia [NK] Marc Rotenberg, EPIC, USA Ed Viltz, PIR, USA Alejandro Pisanty, ICANN Board Angela Kuga Thas, Malaysia APC 1. Whois Due to late arrival, MM's opportunity to address registrars missed. Will meet with Registrar constituency chair on Wednesday, other NCUC members interested in Whois invited to join. Also a meeting of the Council and TF members will happen tomorrow. General consensus is that TF 1 and 2 will be consolidated, and that TF 3 is not ready for prime time. But no specific action plans can be made until after Tuesday's meeting. 2. Upcoming elections Iliya will be asked to handle balloting again. Must hold elections for two of the Council seats. MM will run for Chair again if there is no one else willing to do it. HC will run for AP region again. Group makes a determination now that Frannie will replace Chris Chiu as NA's EC member, and see if there are any objections. A formal election for Chris's position now makes no sense in that new elections will be held in October. 3. Budget planning and the PIR grant PIR funding requires annual report. Send annual PIR report to the membership, it can double as a financial report. 4. Iliya's plan of action 4a. Chat meetings. Advantages of using chat for synchronous meetings noted: cheaper, easier for those for whom English is not a first language, generates a log/record. Discussion of problems we have had using chat client software. Klein notes that Yahoo chat reputed to be the best. MM will investigate Yahoo; HC offers to set up a chat server if needed. Klein also mentions Skype – VoIP system. 4b Website Assoc. for Progressive Communication has an "action application" system that handles website updating and project management. HC will talk to APC about whether NCUC can use it. 4c Reports Iliya's suggestion that beneficiaries of NCUC funding write a report is considered and approved, while recognizing that it is extra work. HC: will do a report; these and other reports will be saved for annual PIR report. 4d NCUC brochure Considered a good idea. MM will adapt website and other content to this purpose, and work with Iliya to produce a brochure for NCUC 4e Charter revision. Will be done at this Fall's elections. Use Adam Peake's suggestions, add a procedure to replacing resigning EC members. 5. WSIS and meeting with Markus Kummer NCUC members will meet privately with Markus Kummer, Tuesday eve. Also met with him in connection with the joint ALAC meeting. Discussion of hostility of some governments to ICANN. HC was on advisory board for National Telecommunications Commission, of Ministry, lobbied to take a look at the ccTLD manager. Acts as ISP, registry, registrar. Government wants to separate registries and registrars. 6. Joint meeting with ALAC. Announced, will meet at 5:30 7. sTLDs General discussion of .asia, .jobs, and OECD report. While NCUC views new TLDs favorably, .asia's status as a sponsored TLD questioned.