ISPCP Participating in Sydney ICANN Meetings
22 June 2009
ISPs are meeting in Sydney, Australia with the broader ICANN community. This meeting has included the ISPCP regular meeting and a meeting between the ISPs and the Business and Intellectual Property constituencies. More information is coming on the "upcoming Meetings" pages for the ISPCP.
The ISPCP has posted Mark McFadden's presentation from the ISPCP meeting on the topic of understanding the current state of signing the root of the Domain Name System. We have also posted a presentation by J. Scott Evans on the IRT. The slides that Tony Holmes used to introduce the meeting and provide background to gNSO reform have also been posted.
Some details on the meeting are available on the ICANN web site. For further information please contact the ISPCP Secretariat.
ISPCP Membership Contributing to gNSO Reform Workgroups
6 May 2009
The ISP community is contributing volunteer staff to ICANN's gNSO Reform workgroups. This effort includes the GNSO Implementation Planning Team (IPT), the Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC), and the Operations Steering Committee (OSC). For further information on which ISPs are volunteering for this important work, please contact the : ISPCP Secretariat.
ISPCP Makes Statement on Travel Support at ICANN
14 April 2009
The ISP Constituency has published a statement on ICANN community support for travel for key members of the community. The ICANN draft guidelines for travel support have been published for comment and the ISPCP paper is a comment on that set of guidelines. The current set (2009) of travel procedures for the ICANN community has also been published.s Steering Committee (OSC). For further information on the ICANN travel policy and how it affects the ISPCP constituency, please contact the : ISPCP Secretariat.
Cross Constituency Statement on IP Issues
8 March 2009
The ISP Constituency has joined with the Business Constituency and the Intellectual Property Constituency in a statement to the ICANN Board of Directors on the topics of gNSO Reform and Trademark Protection. The Constituencies support the immediate establishment of an expert panel, comprised principally of persons and representatives of organizations and companies that put forth proposed solutions in the public comment period on the first draft of the New gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook. The panel would develop proposed rights protection mechanism solutions suitable for inclusion in the guidebook for consideration by the Board before the Sydney meeting. The expert panel would begin its work by examining the proposed solutions set forth in those comments. For further information on the this joint statement by these three comstituencies, please contact the : ISPCP Secretariat.
ISPCP Statement on whois Staff Overview Report
12 October 2007
The ISP Constituency has prepared a statement on the recently released whois Staff Overview Report.
The ISPCP has followed the debate on WHOIS, throughout the proceedings involving both the WHOIS Task Force and the WHOIS Working group, with close interest and active participation. The issues that have been debated and re-debated over several years tend to expose some rather inevitable conclusions. The ISPCP statement details those conclusions and reiterates that the ISPCP believes that promoting a GNSO resolution to move OPOC to an implementation phase is not appropriate and fails to consider the very broad set of concerns raised by the community at large.
A public copy of the ISPCP statement is available here. The Staff Report on whois is available here. The ISPCP has published its comments in the whois comment forum.
The Staff Implementation notes for the WHOIS working group report are also available: http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-whoiswg-report-staff-implementation-notes-11oct07.pdf.
For further information please contact the ISPCP Secretariat.
Notes on ISPCP Concerns Regarding ICANN Strategic Plan
25 September 2007
A meeting was held between ICANN Management and the ISP Constituency to discuss the current ICANN Strategic Plan. The ISPCP was represented by Mark McFadden and Tony Holmes. ICANN staff has prepared a short summary of the ISPCP concerns.
The notes from that conference call are available here.
For further information please contact the ISPCP Secretariat.
ICANN Meetings Completed in Lisbon
10 April 2007
ISPs met in Lisbon, Portugal for the regular, face-to-face ICANN meeting. Reform of the gNSO, whois, and Internationalized Domain Names were high on the list of topics for the meeting. The ISPCP constituency also hosted a breakfast meeting with the ICANN Board of Directors as well as a Cross Constituency meeting with the Business Constituency and the Intellectual Property Interests Constituency.
Notes from the meetings will soon be available on the ISPCP web site. For further information please contact the ISPCP Secretariat.
ISPCP Statement on LSE Recommendations
23 March 2007
The ISPCP has published its statement on the LSE recommendations for reform of the gNSO. The full ISP statement can be found amongst the public Constituency statements, or directly at this link.ICANN Meetings in Sao Paulo
08 December 2006
The ICANN meetings in Sao Paulo have just concluded with a great deal of success for people working in the ISPCP constituency. Our constituency meeting worked through issues relating to the current gNSO policy development processes and the gNSO review. Minutes for the meeting will be posted shortly for the ISPCP meeting as well as notes from the IDN workshop held on Wednesday.
The ISPCP Constituency participated in a breakfast meeting with the Board during the Cross Constituency meeting and also met with the Business and Intellectual Property Constituencies at the Cross-Constituency meeting on Tuesday.
Election Completed
25 November 2006
Elections for the two vacant seats on the GNSO Council have been completed for the ISPCP. The ISPCP Secretariat is happy to announce that Tony Harris of CABASE and Greg Ruth of Verizon have been elected to two year terms beginning at the ICANN Annual Meeting in Sao Paulo.
The current GNSO Council members for the ISPCP are Tony Holmes of BT (UK), Tony Harris of CABASE (Argentina) and Greg Ruth of Verizon (US). Details and information about the election are available from the ISPCP Secretariat.
GNSO IDN Committee
24 November 2006
The GNSO has re-instated the GNSO IDN Working Group which was originally created in May 2006. The new charter for the working group is available at the GNSO web site and the working group is due to report at the ICANN meeting in Portugal.
ISPCP members wishing to join should be contact the ISPCP Secretariat.
The ISPCP Constituency has nominated four members to participate in the work of the GNSO IDN Task Force. Those members are:
Greg Ruth, Verizon (US)
Maggie
If you would like further details about the ISPCP activities