Attendees:
Steve Metalitz – IIPA
Jane Mutimear –AIPPI
J. Scott Evans – INTA
George Moo – Bejing Chaoyang Law Firm
Tae Chang Cho – ARAM International Law & Patent
Laurence Djolakion – MPAA
David Taylor – Lovells
Lucy Nichols – Nokia Corporation
Vicente Landim – Brazilian Internet Steering Committee
Xinmin Cui – ADNDRC
Antony Van Couvering – VeriSign Digital Branding
Ken Taylor – Marksmen Inc.
Iris Wong – HKIAC/ADNDRC
Christopher To – HKIAC/ADNRC
Stafford Guest – Internet Nine
James Suh – KDDRC
MoonChul Chang – KDDRC
Joon Kook Park – Shin & Kim
Li Chengixi – ISC (Internet Society of China)
Charles Sha’ Ban – AGIP
Adam Weiss – SnapNames
Li Dongtao
Li Hu –ADNDRC
Michael Heller
Ben Goodger – Rouse & Co.
HyanVoon Kwon – KRMC
 

At 3:35 PM, the meeting was called to order with a round of introduction from the attendees.

1. Administrative Matters
   1. Membership Committee: Reported that 7 new applications received. 1 corporation and 6 individuals. This information was posted to the IPC and comments were requested. Having received no objections from the list serve, the committee recommended that we accept the new members. All members were accepted by unanimous vote.
   2. Treasurer’s Report: We are in good stead financially. A copy of the Treasurer’s Report is attached hereto. The Max Plank Institute has been paid. Given the reforms taking place, we are unsure of our obligations to DNSO in 2003. It is suspected that this obligation may be reduced.
   3. New Officers: Have been elected and will take over on Nov. 1. The new officers are: Jane Mutimear – President; Steve Metalitz – Executive VP; Kyoshi Tsuru – VP; Mark Bohannon – Treasurer; Michael Heltzer – Secretary.
2. ICANN Restructuring

   Review of State of Play: IPC has routinely filed comments during process. Most recent comments raised 3 or 4 core concerns. These were:

   1. GNSO voting distribution – dominated discussion in the Cross-constituency meeting. Impression was that ERC cannot be persuaded from this proposal.
   2. Structure of At-Large Advisory Committee – 5 delegates to Nominating Committee. However, there is no clear guidance as to who will make up the At-Large Advisory Committee? This is a looming open question. Mr. Metalitz recommends we clarify this issue. Our position is that the initial delegates to the Nomcomm should be appointed by current Board.
   3. We are not satisfied with the By-law provision limiting membership to only one constituency. During Cross-constituency meeting, Joe Sims indicated this provision was to prevent capture of process. This is not really a problem for IPC. We suggested maybe should be “voting” not “active” member of more than one constituency group.
3. Transfers Task Force: Ms. Mutimear reported on the outreach forum held by the Transfers Task Force. During meeting, six registrars submitted letter saying that they are in disagreement with many of the possible recommendation listed in the Interim Report. Comment period is open until November 8, 2002.
4. Deletes Task Force has been formed and Jane Mutimear will serve as the IPC representative. This new TF is going to proceed under new Policy Development Process.
5. Other Anticipated Public Forum Issue
   1. Go Daddy, Inc. has started new registration by proxy. Steve Metalitz is scheduled to confer with their representatives following the Shanghai meeting and will report.
   2. Dot org – we received word from one of the losing bidders that the ISOC proposal has a WHOIS cloaking process; however, a look at this proposal says that ISOC will not institute without consultation with IPC.
   3. Lynn proposal on new TLDs. Lynn is suggesting that ICANN may wish to move forward with 3 new sponsored TLDs. This movement ties into the New gTLD Evaluation Process TF’s “parallel” processing. Lynn’s proposal asks 3 questions. The most important for IPC is: “Have the new sponsored TLDs become havens for cybersquatters?” In this regard, it is incumbent upon the IPC to reach out to its membership to investigate this issue.
6. Other Business
7. GNR change to WHOIS policy: Mr. Metalitz reported that a letter was sent to Vint Cerf regarding the points that we believe need to be addressed before Board allows GNR to revise its current WHOIS access policy. There was a discussion that the model being developed by GNR may be used in those jurisdictions where privacy concerns dominate the political environment.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:15 PM.

Treasurer’s Report

As of 22-Oct-02*