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<div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>A priori one would think that besides offering our own perspectives, one of the functions of the three GNSO reps ought to be to solicit views from NCUC members and convey the sense of the group within relevant GNSO discussions. I don't know what the practice and understanding was here previously, and would be interested to hear from people as to what model to follow.</div><div><br></div><div>Since Mary and I were added during Cairo, there's been a rather dauntingly high volume of traffic on the GNSO council list, a good deal of which pertains to possible decisions on immediate action items (see for example <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-action-list.pdf">http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-action-list.pdf</a>). One issue of presumably strong local interest concerns WHOIS and the recommendations advanced by the registries constituency, see below. Would people have some thoughts on this that Mary, Carlos and I should be conveying?</div><div><br></div><div>Should we as a matter of course pass along all similar requests for constituency views and such?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Glen de Saint Géry <<a href="mailto:Glen@icann.org">Glen@icann.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">November 23, 2008 2:36:57 PM GMT+01:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">"<a href="mailto:ntfy-gnso-council@icann.org">ntfy-gnso-council@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:ntfy-gnso-council@icann.org">ntfy-gnso-council@icann.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><b>Reminder:WHOIS discussion/next steps</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear Councillors,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Reminder, please respond if you have not already done so.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The Council agreed on Thursday 20 to schedule a WHOIS meeting.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Constituencies are requested to work on prioritization and view points on the proposed working model:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-whois-study-recommendations-ryc-29oct08.pdf">http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-whois-study-recommendations-ryc-29oct08.pdf</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">in preparation for the meeting.</div></blockquote><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">***********************************************************</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">William J. 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