27 September 2002.

Proposed agenda and related documents
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020926.NCteleconf-agenda.html

List of attendees:

MP3 recording of the meeting by the Secretariat:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/mp3/20020926.NCteleconf.mp3

• Item 1. Approval of agenda:
  
  http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020926.NCteleconf-agenda.html

• Item 2: Confirm the voting results of the ICANN Board election
  
  http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020926.DNSO-ICANN-election-result.html
  

  The Secretary read the list of names and the vote of each member.
  Alejandro Pisanty 15 votes, YJ Park 2 votes, 2 abstentions, 1 ballot not received at close of vote.
  Ken Stubbs proposed the motion:
  that the votes be ratified by the Names Council that Alejandro Pisanty is elected as ICANN Board Member
  seconded by Elisabeth Porteneuve.

  A formal notification would be sent to the ICANN Board, announcing the results.

  The vote was unanimously ratified by the Council.

  Decision 1: Approval of the Names Council vote: Alejandro Pisanty elected as ICANN Board Member.

• Item 3. Brief discussion of resolutions up for vote on 27 September 2002
  

  http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020926.NCresolutions-on-Reform-vote.html
  

  Ken Stubbs expressed concern that 2 of the 3 resolutions involved the structure and policy of the Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO) and felt that it was inappropriate for the ccTLDs to cast votes for a Supporting Organisation that they would not be part of in the future.
  

  Elisabeth Porteneuve drew the Council's attention to the fact that the ccTLDs were still part of the DNSO and had just taken part in the ICANN Board elections. Similar comments were made by Marilyn Cade and Grant Forsyth who said that the contribution of each constituency was important in the present structure.
  

  Bruce Tonkin noted that we were currently operating under the Rules of Procedure for the Names Council.
  

  Bruce Tonkin summarized resolution: Geographic diversity needs to be a reality, sufficient council members are needed to share the workload and while the Evolution and Reform Committee has allowed 3 representatives per constituency for the transition year the situation should be reviewed after 12 months so that an intelligent decision based on the merits of competing arguments and experience can be made.
  Discussion on the resolution highlighted fears that the Board would become too big if additional constituencies were added later, it was felt that the number issue is a flawed assumption, and that the nature of each constituency is different
  

  Philip Sheppard agreed to amend the resolution saying a further review may also be necessary should new constituencies be created.

  Ellen Shankman had to leave the call and gave her proxy to J.Scott Evans.

  Bruce Tonkin summarized resolution 2 addressing stakeholder representation the basis of which today is having equal votes, and that any variation, 4+4+3 votes, would be unacceptable to the Council. The reason behind the shift of power is to achieve a balance between contracted parties and users.
  Discussion on the resolution raised the point that it could be seen as a self-interested resolution if it came to pass It is a high level principle of ICANN that has been changed and in an amended form merits support with competition being removed. Philip Sheppard agreed to amend and present a shorter resolution.

  Philip Sheppard had to leave the call and gave his proxy to Marilyn Cade..

  Bruce Tonkin summarized Elisabeth Porteneuve's resolutions, the first draft having provoked some discussion and letters from Vint Cerf and Stuart Lynn to the Names Council acknowledging that there were questions arising in the IANA practice of obtaining and reviewing zone files and that the objectives of the practice should be re-examined by the Security Committee. The resolution addressed stability of the Internet, important in the White Paper, a recent Carrier bankruptcy that needed secondary Name Servers to be removed and updated in the IANA database, some of the ccTLD manager's dissatisfaction with IANA functions, while it resolved that there was an emergency situation related to Name Servers, that updates should be processed immediately as well as the updating of day to day data, and the protection of overall data accuracy.
  

  
  Marilyn Cade said that it addressed an issue that was of broad concern to the Names Council, accuracy of data in data bases, however she felt it should be edited to get an upper level resolution that would be supported. This was echoed by other members and Cary Karp felt it should be separated into 2 motions.

  Bruce Tonkin suggested separating the resolution from the response to Vint Cerf and Stuart Lynn's letter and said that the Names Council was the appropriate place to handle the matter. Elisabeth was asked to redraft the resolution.

• Item 4: AOB

  Harold Feld suggested that the Names Council replies to the Department of Commerce's renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding and the fundamental points that have already been discussed in the Names Council and not taken into account, should be revisited.

  Marilyn Cade suggested that there be a discussion on the Role of Governments saying that there was a shift of some governments about the role of Government.

  Bruce Tonkin requested that Harold Feld and Marilyn Cade create discussion documents and post to the council list prior to discussion at the names council meeting in Shanghai.

Bruce Tonkin thanked everyone for their participation.

Next NC teleconference will be on Thursday October 3, 2002, 15:00 Paris time, 13:00 UTC/GMT

See all past agendas and minutes at http://www.dnso.org/dnso/2002calendardnso.html
and calendar of the NC meetings at http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2002.NC-calendar.html