GNSO Council Teleconference Agenda

Proposed GNSO Council Agenda 6 March 2008

This agenda was established according to the Rules of Procedure for the GNSO Council

Coordinated Universal Time UTC 19:00 - see below for local times
(11:00 Los Angeles, 14:00 Washington DC, 19:00 London, 20:00 Brussels, 06:00 Melbourne, next day)

Avri Doria will be chairing the GNSO Council meeting
Scheduled time for meeting 120 minutes.

Dial-in numbers sent individually to Council members.

Item 0: Roll call of Council members (5 mins)

Item 1: Update any statements of interest (5 mins)

Item 2: Review/amend agenda (5 mins)

Item 3: Update from Denise Michel on Board activities (15 mins)

Item 4: IDNC update - Edmon Chung (10 mins)

Item 5: Report from Domain Name Tasting Design Team (20 mins)
- motion to be posted on Wiki

Item 6: Discuss Report on Public Suggestions on Further Studies of WHOIS (20 mins)
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04732.html

Item 7: Proposed motion requesting an Issues Report on "fast flux DNS" changes - Mike Rodenbaugh (10 mins)

Whereas, "fast flux" DNS changes are increasingly being used to commit crime and frustrate law enforcement efforts to combat crime, with criminals rapidly modifying IP addresses and/or nameservers in effort to evade
detection and shutdown of their criminal website;

Whereas, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee has reported on this trend in its Advisory SAC 025, dated January 2008:
http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac025.pdf/

Whereas, the SSAC Advisory describes the technical aspects of fast flux hosting, explains how DNS is being exploited to abet criminal activities, discusses current and possible methods of mitigating this activity, and
recommends that appropriate bodies consider policies that would make practical mitigation methods universally available to all registrants, ISPs, registrars and registries,

Whereas, the GNSO is likely an appropriate party to consider such policies

The GNSO Council RESOLVES:

ICANN Staff shall prepare an Issues Report with respect to "fast flux" DNS changes, for deliberation by the GNSO Council. Specifically the Staff shall consider the SAC Advisory, and shall outline potential next steps for GNSO policy development designed to mitigate the current ability for criminals to exploit the DNS via "fast flux" IP or nameserver changes.

Item 8: Update on Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy PDP (5 mins)

Item 9: Update on Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy future PDPs (5 mins)

Item 10: Discuss status of draft Bylaws amendment on absentee voting (5 mins) http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/absentee-voting-bylaw-amendment-15feb08.pdf

Item 11: Action Item Review (5 mins)
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-action-list.pdf

Item 12: AOB

(11:00 Los Angeles, 14:00 Washington DC, 19:00 London, 20:00 Brussels, 06:00 Melbourne, next day)
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