Minutes of the SC-cc on Thursday, July 9th
Participants:
Robert Gaetano
Javier Sola (AUI)
Ron Kawchuk (CAIP)
Mike Roberts (EDUCAUSE)
Werner Staub (ISOC)
Don Heath (ISOC)
Martin Burack (ISOC)
Michael Schneider (EuroISPA)
Anne-Kathrin Orth

joined later:
Tamar Frankel (BU)
Laina Green (APIA)
John Wood (CSSA, CBI, ICC)
Robert Shaw (ITU)
Siegfried Langenbach (DENIC)
Jim Dixon (EuroISPA)
Amadeu Abril i-Abril (FCR)
The following was discussed and agreed upon during the Conference:

After a short summary of the Brussels meeting on Tuesday, stating that Christopher Wilkinson slightly revised his former scepticism of IFWP, though he is still a little reserved in his attitude, the Geneva conference was the main issue.

It was stated that the Website should be put up within the next few hours, giving 24h time for comments before being made publicly available. To the question of who should set it up, all agreed that Michael Schneider would be the most neutral person available, as Jim Dixon's neutrality seemed in question to some.

Moreover, it was decided that ISOC, respectively Marty Burack, should edit the site, the URL of which will be: http://geneva.ifwp.org/

Once again, the importance of enforcing Geneva to be a mainly european, african and middle east conference was intensely discussed, resulting in the decision to have Michael Schneider set up and circle a list of invitations along with a draft invitation letter for any additions to be made, especially as far as african associations are concerned. Of course, all members of the steering committee are free to address their own members as well. Also, the possiblity of sponsoring some of the african participants was considered, with most aggreeing that help be given whereever possible.

As to the transparency and openness of the progress, all agreed that the financing should be included on the webpage as soon as relatively accurate data is made available by ISOC.

Robert Shaw agreed to set up a mailing list for the steering committee and one as a type of "discussion" list. To organize the Geneva conference, there will be a programme committee set up along side the steering committee, with an extra mailing list which Robert Shaw will also take care of (to be added, contact him at Robert.Shaw@itu.int)

As far as the agenda of the conference is concerned, various points were addressed. First of all, the chairing is still open, though will most probably be assigned to Dr. Frankel and Dr. Griessen. Speeches are to be held by Mr. Ira Magaziner about the White Paper, if possible by Christopher Wilkinson or another member of DG XIII about the European Conferences on the nIANA, by Michael Schneider about the european industry's view of the process up to date (he'll contact Wilkinson to avoid overlapping or contradictions) and by Tamar Frankel, giving a short summary of Reston - thus the list so far.

Saturday is to be made up of the breakout sessions, though it was left undecided whether there should be a "legal issues" session exclusively for lawyers Friday evening to clarify which realistic options actually are available, the results of which would be reported to the plenum by Laina before splitting up into the groups on Saturday, or whether it should first be plenarily decided how to organize the board and to then move on to the sessions, mainly consisting of the issues of the three different councils which are to be initiated.

It was stressed that the moderators must be absolutely neutral in the sense that they won't be candidating for a seat on the board of the nIANA or even can't be elected to it after having been moderator to one of the conferences. Ian Walden (UK) was suggested as a possibility, the suggestions of Dr. Frankel, both US, were seen as problematic and concerns were expressed to non-europeans moderating a european conference.

As there are still some issues of great importance left to discuss, the next Conference call was set to Monday, July 13th, at the same time: 2.00 pm BST for the steering committee and one hour later at 3.00 pm BST for the programme committee.