I know you all have already received this message. I am forwarding it to the PSO-PC list, so that it stays in the archive. Livia -----Original Message----- From: Louis Touton [mailto:touton@icann.org] Sent: 29 September 2000 02:26 To: smb@research.att.com; Fabio.Bigi@itu.int; leslie@thinkingcat.com; ph@w3.org; bridget.cosgrave@etsi.fr; gerry.lawrence@marconi.com; brian@bwmc.demon.co.uk; djweitzner@w3.org Cc: Livia Rosu Subject: Preliminary Report on 25 September ICANN Board Meeting To the Protocol Council: I thought it might be useful to send you a quick summary of the actions taken by the ICANN Board at its teleconference on Monday, 25 September. The preliminary report is posted at <http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-25sep00.htm>. The Board acted on these matters: o ccTLD Delegations As you may know, ICANN recently received a query from the European Commission regarding the delegation of the "eu" alpha-2 code as a ccTLD. <http://www.icann.org/correspondence/liikanen-letter-06jul00.htm> Under existing ICANN/IANA policy <http://www.icann.org/icp/icp-1.htm>, ccTLD assignments are made on the basis of codes on the ISO 3166-1 list. While the "eu" code does not appear on that list, the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency has designated the "eu" code as approved for "all uses." Confronted with this situation, the IANA staff asked the Board for guidance. The Board's answer was that the code should be regarded as available for delegation under existing policy, and furthermore that no new TLDs should be established without a completed registry agreement between ICANN and the registry operator. See <http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-25sep00.htm#00.74> for the detailed resolutions. o Amendment to ASO MoU The Board authorized amendment of the ASO MoU to align the terms of Address Council members so that new members from the three RIR regions join simultaneously on January 1. The amendment appears at <http://www.icann.org/aso/aso-mou-amend1-25sep00.htm>. o Multilingual Domain Names - Verisign Registry Testbed In response to Verisign Global Registry's recent announcement about its multilingual domain name testbed, the Board called on Verisign to "consult closely with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board concerning the design and implementation of the testbed, with the goal that the testbed should promote, rather than complicate, technical standardization efforts in this area." The Board also: called on Verisign to provide equivalent testbed access to all accredited registrars; called on the participating registrars to protect the interests and expectations of domain-name holders and affected third parties; and asked the ICANN staff to consider what measures might be needed "to facilitate the operation of the testbed in a manner that protects those interests and expectations, including provisions that facilitate evolution of the testbed to match evolving standardization efforts within the IETF." o March 2001 Meetings - Melbourne Finally, the Board agreed with the staff's decision to accept a well-supported proposal from local hosts to hold the Spring 2001 ICANN Board meetings in Melbourne, Australia, from 10-13 March. As always, the SOs are invited to hold a meeting (if you wish) in conjunction with the ICANN Board meetings. Louis Touton ICANN Secretary =========================================================================