Minutes | Special Meeting of the Board 16 August 2005

The meeting was called to order by Vinton Cerf at 2:08 PM, Pacific Daylight Time on 16 August 2005. Chairman Vinton G. Cerf presided over the entire meeting. The following other Board Directors participated in all or part of the meeting: Raimundo Beca, Mouhamet Diop, Demi Getschko, Hagen Hultzsch, Joichi Ito, Veni Markovski, Thomas Niles, Alejandro Pisanty, Hualin Qian, Njeri Rionge, Vanda Scartezini, Peter Dengate Thrush, and Paul Twomey. The following Board Members did not participate in the Meeting: Michael D. Palage. The following Board Liaisons participated in all or part of the meeting: Steve Crocker, Security and Stability Advisory Committee Liaison; Roberto Gaetano, At Large Advisory Committee Liaison; Thomas Narten, IETF Liaison; Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi, Governmental Advisory Committee Liaison; Richard Thwaites, Technical Liaison Group Liaison and Suzanne Woolf, RSSAC Liaison. John Jeffrey, General Counsel and Board Secretary also participated in the meeting. Other Staff making presentations or participating in the meeting included: Kurt Pritz, Vice President of Business Operations; Olof Nordling, Manager, Policy Development Coordination; Barbara Roseman, IANA Operations Manager; and, Theresa Swinehart, General Manager, Global Partnerships.

A Transcript of the Board votes on resolutions is attached to these minutes. The board discussed and in some cased approved resolutions on the following topics:

Development of Global Policy Proposal on IPv6

Whereas, ICANN has been advised that a Global Policy Proposal on IPv6 is in development in the addressing community.

Whereas, the Board's Review Procedures for Global Internet Number Resource Policies <http://www.icann.org/general/review-procedures-pgp.html> provide that the Board is responsible for directing the President to monitor and report to the Board on such global addressing policies as such policies are under development.

Resolved (05.72), the ICANN President is directed to assign staff for the purpose of reporting on development of the Global Policy Proposal on IPv6 in accordance with Article 1 of the Board's Review Procedures for Global Internet Number Resource Policies, and instructs the ICANN President to assign staff for the purposes of informing ICANN's Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees; establishing an ICANN web page to be kept up-to-date, and compiling a background report to be kept up-to-date on the global policy development. This status will be recorded in the monthly report to the ICANN Board by the ICANN President.

The board approved the resolution by a unanimous vote of the Board Members present, 14-0.

Approval of Minutes for the 28 July 2005 Special Meeting of the Board

Resolved [05.71], the minutes of the meeting of the Board on 28 July 2005, are hereby approved and adopted by the Board.

The board approved the resolution by a voice vote of 13-0, with one abstention from Alejandro Pisanty. Mr. Pisanty abstained because he was not present for the subject meeting.

Other Matters

The ICANN Board of Directors discussed and then deferred consideration of the .CAT and .XXX sTLD requests until the 15 September 2005 Meeting.

.CAT was deferred to allow for further clarification of the terms of the agreement.

.XXX was deferred in response to requests from the applicant ICM, the Chairman of ICANN's Government Advisory Committee and the US Department of Commerce to allow for additional time for comments by interested parties.

The Meeting was adjourned at 4:22 PM, Pacific Daylight Time.