[council] ICANN Board Resolutions Regarding New TLDs

[Louis Touton <touton@icann.org>]

To the Names Council:

At its 10 March 2000 meeting in Cairo, the ICANN Board passed a set
of resolutions (copied below) pertaining to the work the Names Council
has assigned to working groups B and C.  As you will note, the 
resolutions request that the Names Council submit recommendations on 
the topic of the introduction of new generic top-level domains, taking 
into account protection of globally famous trademarks, no later than 
April 20, 2000.  The ICANN Board also indicated its intent to act
on these issues at the mid-July ICANN meeting in Yokohama.

Louis Touton
ICANN Secretary

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New Top-Level Domains

Whereas, on April 30, 1999, the World Intellectual Property Organization 
submitted a report to the ICANN Board containing recommendations 
regarding the protection of globally famous trademarks and the 
introduction of new generic top-level domains;

Whereas, in resolution 99.48, the Board referred those recommendations 
to the Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO) for its
recommendations 
on these topics, to be submitted to the ICANN Board at the earliest 
practicable time after the Board's August 1999 meeting in Santiago, 
Chile;

Whereas, the Names Counsel of the DNSO created working groups B and C 
to study and report on these topics in July 1999;

Whereas, those working groups have discussed these topics for over 
eight months;

Whereas, on March 8, 2000, the Names Council requested that reports 
from these working groups be submitted to it for comment within ten 
days and declared its intention to submit the reports for public 
comment for a period of four weeks, after which the Names Council 
will promptly review and make recommendations on the reports;

Resolved that the Names Council is requested to submit 
recommendations on the topic of the introduction of new generic 
top-level domains, taking into account protection of globally famous 
trademarks, no later than April 20, 2000;

Resolved that the staff is authorized and instructed to prepare, 
taking into account any working group reports and Names Council 
recommendations received and based on consultation with the Names 
Council, draft policies, draft implementation documents, commentary, 
and statements of issues on these topics, to be posted for public 
comment on the ICANN web site in advance of the Board's meeting 
in Yokohama on July 15-16, 2000; and

Resolved that the Board notes its intention to act on these topics 
at the Yokohama meeting.

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