ICANN Board set to approve .biz/info/org agreements before Sao Paulo?

[George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

According to the agenda for the November 22, 2006 Board meeting:

http://www.icann.org/minutes/

It includes the following items:

* Proposed Approval of new .BIZ Registry Agreement
* Proposed Approval of new .INFO Registry Agreement
* Proposed Approval of new .ORG Registry Agreement

This appears to ignore the GNSO Council resolution from September:

http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#200609

"To request the Board to delay any decision on the .biz .info and .org
agreements until the ICANN Board meeting after the Sao Paolo ICANN
meetings 2006 and to take into account the current outcome of the
PDPFeb06 task force at that time."

And as I noted in a prior message:

http://forum.icann.org/lists/revised-biz-info-org-agreements/msg00013.html

it ignores the Bylaws that mention "an in-person public forum shall
also be held for discussion of any proposed policies as described in
Section 6(1)(b) of this Article, prior to any final Board action." and
that "in those cases where the policy action affects public policy
concerns, to request the opinion of the Governmental Advisory
Committee". 

Can the Board provide any good reason why they are rushing through
approval of these badly conceived contracts, despite the overwhelming
opposition of the public? This illustrates why folks are cynical about
ICANN. Unless these contracts are defeated, to reflect the bottom up
consensus, any remaining shred of credibility that ICANN's Board might
have had will be lost.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.kirikos.com/