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The Names Council's Transfer Task Force has made its WLS report available. The report recommends that the Wait Listing Service suggested by Verisign Registry and SnapNames should be rejected; the Intellectual Property and gTLD registry constituencies objected. (The results of the Task Force's vote on the individual recommendations are also available separately.) The report will be discussed at today's Names Council telephone conference, and will then be forwarded to the ICANN board.

Today's Names Council telephone conference recording is now available for download. George Kirikos has listened to it and has posted a summary of the part of the call concerning the Wait Listing Service. Also, some additional material for the Task Force's report is available. This includes a statement from the IPC, a statement from the gTLDs, and a collection of supporting material.

Update: Jeff Neumann (the gTLD registry constituency's chair, but not a member of the council) has posted a follow-up in which he states that the Names Council's vote was a recognition that the report adequatley represents the view of those that participated in the Task Force. It was not approval for the substance contained within the report. I can offer no clarification on this myself since I did not participate in the conference call (other obligations took priority), and have not found the time to listen to the recording. It seems like we'll have to wait for the call's official minutes.