summary report of the NCUC meeting

[Carlos Afonso]

ICANN Marrakech
NCUC 26-06-2006

Summary report of the meeting

1. Registry Contracts Task Force issues

Position of NCUC: agrees to the practice of "renewal expectancy": those 
who were originally assigned a top level domain should retain the 
assignment unless there is a significant problem, such as criminal 
activity, breach of contract, repeated failure to meet service 
standards, or serious noncompliance with applicable ICANN rules and 
policies. However, this must be contingent upon creation of an 
expeditious process for addition of new TLDs and new competitors in the 
registry market. Mawaki and Milton also need to add some language about 
other conditions that might give incumbent registries an incentive to 
improve service and lower price over time.

On rate controls, we favor extending the term length for registrations 
beyond 10 years, to 15 or 20. Aside from that we favor the existing 
price cap regime. But we also wish to raise the issue of whether ICANN 
should be responsible for rate regulation or whether this should be left 
to national governments. Perhaps we should propose a new PDP on that 
topic. Additional discussion needed on the use of registry data.

2. Whois Task Force and related issues

Position of NCUC:  We spent a lot of time on this issue.  Kathy outlined
where the Task Force is to date, and how several constituencies are 
trying to get the GNSO Council to go back, cancel the "Purpose of Whois" 
that the GNSO Council adopted in its vote, and pick a purpose that is 
better suited to their interests.

3. Planning the Whois conference in São Paulo

To be done in the course of the current ICANN meeting and through the
NCUC list.

4. NCUC strategic planning in S.Paulo -- proposed by Marcelo

A specific NCUC meeting in São Paulo during the ICANN meeting to 
brainstorm on the future of NCUC in particular and the presence of civil 
society in the ICANN system in general. We hope to plan for and discuss 
the guidelines of this meeting through our mailing list.

5. NCUC position regarding CIRA request to ICANN for a thorough review 
of procedures

NCUC has decided not to make any statement at this point.

6. Review of the situation regarding IDN's

A good debate on the issue was carried out on the basis of a paper by 
NCUC member Mawaki Chango, commenting the Issues Report on IDN, issued 
by the GNSO staff. This was carried out notably with the contribution of 
the constituency's members, Chun Eung Hwi and Avri Doria. The 
discussions have revealed some possible/potential misunderstanding of 
some issues raised by the GNSO Issues Report. It has been suggested that 
more clarification be sought to the GNSO staff and council colleagues 
during the discussions on the report.

7. ICANN Nominating Committee

A talk on the work of the Nominating Committee by George Sadowsky.

8. Visit of Ed Viltz (PIR)

Ed Viltz spoke about the relationship of NCUC and PIR regarding the 
promotion of the .org gTLD among civil society organizations. In the 
opportunity, Viltz delivered to NCUC a PIR contribution of US$14,000, as 
previously agreed.