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 > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. > Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html >