WHOIS vote in the GNSO Council

[KathrynKL at AOL.COM]

A huge three cheers for our NCUC Council representatives -- Norbert, Robin
and Mawaki -- who led a successful fight (against many odds) to win today!  A
huge amount of work went on behind the scenes to educate and share ideas with
others on Council.  I have never been more pleased with ICANN.

Thank you!  Kathy

>
> Dear NCUC colleagues,
>
> just a short note after the GNSO Council teleconference (in which also
> Robin Gross and Mawaki Chango participated, the other two NCUC delegates):
>
> One agenda item was to handle the two WHOIS purpose drafts, where
> Formulation 1 had been preferred over Formulation 2 by us  (and those
> who had been pressing for Formulation 2  withdrew it in Wellington - we
> had a third text today, which was supposed to be an amendment replacing
> 1 and 2.
>
> First this "amendment" was voted down 17 to 9, and then the original
> Formulation 1 was voted in 18 to 9 - basically from the registries,
> registrars, the three Nomination Committee appointees, and our NCUC
> votes, while the Business, Intellectual Property, and ISP constituencies
> were in the minority during the vote.
>
> There were again several suggestions NOT to vote which would have led to
> a further delay as so often before - especially also an intervention
> from an observer/guest in the GNSO Council (I want to clarify the status
> later) of the US government representative on the GAC, who cautioned
> against a hasty vote (on an issue which is going on for 7 years already,
> and has been on the respective Task Force list and open for public
> comments at different stages).
>
>

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