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[council] Request to fellow Councilors for input and suggestions to WHOIS Workshop Planning Committee



Dear fellow councilors

The WHOIS Workshop Planning committee, recently appointed by ICANN's 
President/CEO, (see below) held its first conf. call Saturday, to discuss 
planning for the Montreal workshops on WHOIS and related privacy and other 
issues, as requested by ICANN's President. The committee will host at least two 
more conference calls this week in order to plan the program for the two 1/2 
day workshops now scheduled for Montreal's meeting. We began to outline the 
approach for the workshops on our initial call. 

Although all on the Committee are acting in their individual capacity as 
appointees to the Planning Committee, the chair of the Program Committee and 
the chair of the Council have agreed that I might solicit input from fellow 
Councilors, and I welcome that opportunity to seek your input and suggestions.  

Your input and suggestions on areas to be addressed, possible experts for 
presentations, and ideas about existing reports or other materials that you 
might suggest as background to be provided to support and inform the workshops 
would be most welcomed. To be most useful, I will need input by Thursday, June 
12. Earlier suggestions will be helpful. 

You may post to me at mcade@xxxxxxx, or you may share your 
recommendations/input with the full Council, if you prefer.

In addition to suggesting topics or issues to be addressed, if you suggest a 
speaker, please provide email and telephone contact information, as well as a 
sentence or two regarding the nature of the topic you recommend that speaker 
for.  I will be provide all contributions to the rest of the committee as 
inputs for their consideration.  And, should a speaker be accepted by the 
Committee, it will expedite contact to have contact details already available.  

I apologize for the urgency of the request, but the Committee must move quickly 
to develop the workshops in order to issue invitations to speakers for the 
workshops.

Regards, 

Marilyn Cade








-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Tonkin [mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 4:09 AM
To: council@xxxxxxxx
Subject: [council] ICANN Announces Whois Workshop Planning Committee for
Montréal


AS requested by the GNSO Council in its teleconference on 22 May 2003:

ICANN Announces Whois Workshop Planning Committee for Montréal
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-05jun03.htm

Marina del Rey, California USA (5 June 2003): ICANN President and CEO Paul 
Twomey today announced the appointment of a Workshop Planning Committee to help 
coordinate a workshop on Whois and related issues at ICANN's meeting later this 
month in Montréal, Canada. The President's Whois Workshop Committee includes 
the following recognized leaders in this subject:

Elana Broitman 
Marilyn Cade 
Steve Crocker 
Sabine Dolderer 
Robin Layton 
Michael Palage 
George Papapavlou 
Mike Roberts (Chair) 
Thomas Roessler 
The Whois workshop is intended to initiate a period of discussion within the 
ICANN community on Whois and related privacy and other issues. The workshop is 
being held in response to a request from the GNSO Council, and in cooperation 
with the GAC's work program. Current plans call for a two-part workshop, 
scheduled for the mornings of Tuesday, 24 June 2003, and Wednesday, 25 June 
2003.

For additional details on the ICANN meetings in Montréal, Canada (22-26 June 
2003), please visit <http://www.icann.org/montreal/>. 

The meetings will be hosted by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority 
(CIRA). CIRA has posted additional information regarding the area, the meeting, 
and local hotels at <http://www.icannmontreal.ca/>.