ICANN Marrakech NCUC 26-06-2006 Summary report of the meeting 1. Registry Contracts Task Force issues Position of NCUC: agrees to the practice of "renewal expectancy": those who were originally assigned a top level domain should retain the assignment unless there is a significant problem, such as criminal activity, breach of contract, repeated failure to meet service standards, or serious noncompliance with applicable ICANN rules and policies. However, this must be contingent upon creation of an expeditious process for addition of new TLDs and new competitors in the registry market. Mawaki and Milton also need to add some language about other conditions that might give incumbent registries an incentive to improve service and lower price over time. On rate controls, we favor extending the term length for registrations beyond 10 years, to 15 or 20. Aside from that we favor the existing price cap regime. But we also wish to raise the issue of whether ICANN should be responsible for rate regulation or whether this should be left to national governments. Perhaps we should propose a new PDP on that topic. Additional discussion needed on the use of registry data. 2. Whois Task Force and related issues Position of NCUC: We spent a lot of time on this issue. Kathy outlined where the Task Force is to date, and how several constituencies are trying to get the GNSO Council to go back, cancel the "Purpose of Whois" that the GNSO Council adopted in its vote, and pick a purpose that is better suited to their interests. 3. Planning the Whois conference in São Paulo To be done in the course of the current ICANN meeting and through the NCUC list. 4. NCUC strategic planning in S.Paulo -- proposed by Marcelo A specific NCUC meeting in São Paulo during the ICANN meeting to brainstorm on the future of NCUC in particular and the presence of civil society in the ICANN system in general. We hope to plan for and discuss the guidelines of this meeting through our mailing list. 5. NCUC position regarding CIRA request to ICANN for a thorough review of procedures NCUC has decided not to make any statement at this point. 6. Review of the situation regarding IDN's A good debate on the issue was carried out on the basis of a paper by NCUC member Mawaki Chango, commenting the Issues Report on IDN, issued by the GNSO staff. This was carried out notably with the contribution of the constituency's members, Chun Eung Hwi and Avri Doria. The discussions have revealed some possible/potential misunderstanding of some issues raised by the GNSO Issues Report. It has been suggested that more clarification be sought to the GNSO staff and council colleagues during the discussions on the report. 7. ICANN Nominating Committee A talk on the work of the Nominating Committee by George Sadowsky. 8. Visit of Ed Viltz (PIR) Ed Viltz spoke about the relationship of NCUC and PIR regarding the promotion of the .org gTLD among civil society organizations. In the opportunity, Viltz delivered to NCUC a PIR contribution of US$14,000, as previously agreed.