65. The Chairperson recalled that the Council had agreed, at its meeting in April, to continue its substantive discussions on electronic commerce at the present meeting and to request the International Bureau of WIPO to present to the Council the results of the WIPO domain name process and information about any other relevant developments in WIPO's work of relevance to issues of electronic commerce. Papers on the matter received from the European Communities and their member States and from Australia had been circulated in documents IP/C/W/140 and 144 respectively. Papers announced by Japan, India and the United States would be circulated in documents IP/C/W/145, 147 and 149 respectively. He also referred to an informal note, No. 3359 of 14 June 1999, which he had circulated and which had been discussed with Members in informal consultations.
