GNSO Council Teleconference Agenda

Proposed GNSO Council Agenda 7 May 2009

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

Coordinated Universal Time 14:00 UTC - see below for local times
(07:00 Los Angeles, 10:00 Washington DC, 15:00 London, 16:00 Brussels, 00:00 Melbourne next day)

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

Dial-in numbers sent individually to Council members.

Item 0: Roll call of Council members

Item 1: Update any statements of interest

Item 2: Review/amend agenda

Item 3: Approve GNSO Council minutes (Items 1-3 15 mins.)

GNSO Council minutes 16 April 2009

Item 4: Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Policy Development Process (PDP) decision (deferred from previous meeting) (20 mins.)

GNSO Issues Report on Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery

See motion on Wiki
https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?07_may_motions

Item 5: GAC Position Paper on Geographic Names (20 mins.)

GAC Response to Geographic Terms Protection

Item 6: Whois service requirements motion (10 mins.)

See motion on Wiki
https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?07_may_motions

Item 7: Preparation for the Sydney meetings (10 mins.)

Sydney Schedule

Item 8: Status Updates (20 mins)

8. 1 Board Update

Board Agenda 23 April 2009

Preliminary Report

8. 2 ccNSO Liaison update

8. 3 Geographical Region WG update

8. 4 Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) status update

Draft Report - Introduction: Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT)

Other references:

WIKI for Overarching Issues discussions:
https://st.icann.org/new-gtld-overarching-issues/index.cgi?new_gtld_overarching_issues

New gTLD Page:
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm

8. 5 Joint AC/SO Efforts

8. 5 . 1 Joint GNSO/ccNSO group to discuss coordination of timing for IDN TLDs (Avri Doria /Chris Disspain) update

8. 5. 2 Appointment of 2 GNSO Council representatives on the ccNSO PDP working group

8. 5. 3 RAA with ALAC

8. 6 Policy Items

8. 6. 1. Working Groups

8. 6. 1. 1. Fast Flux

8. 6. 1. 2. Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAPWG)

8. 6. 2. Drafting Teams

8. 6. 2. 1. Travel Policy Drafting Team - Travel Database for Sydney

8. 6. 2. 2. IDN gTLD Fast Track

8. 6. 3 GNSO Improvement Work Teams

8. 6. 3. 1 Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC) Policy Development Process (PDP) work team (WT)

8. 6. 3. 2. PPSC Working Group work team WGWT

8. 6. 3. 3. Operations Steering Committee (OSC) Communications coordination work team

8. 6. 3. 4. OSC Constituency operations work team

8. 6. 3. 5. OSC GNSO Council operations work team

8. 7. Restructuring group

http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-action-list.pdf

8. 7. 1. Status of By-Law discussions

Item 9: AOB

(07:00 Los Angeles, 10:00 Washington DC, 15:00 London, 1600 Brussels, 00:00 Melbourne next day)
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