GNSO Council Teleconference Agenda

Proposed GNSO Council Agenda Thursday, October 19, 2006

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

Coordinated Universal Time UTC 12:00
(5:00 LA, 8:00 Washington DC, 9:00 Buenos Aires, 13:00 London, 14:00 Brussels, 19:00 Phnom Penh, 22:00 Melbourne, 01:00 Friday Auckland

Bruce Tonkin will be chairing the GNSO Council teleconference.
Scheduled time for meeting - 120 mins.

Dial-in number sent individually to each Council member

Approval of Agenda

Item 1: Update any statements of interest

Item 2: Approval of Minutes

- 28 September 2006
http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg02876.html

Item 3: Correspondence

- Letter sent to the Board regarding biz, info, org agreements
http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg02880.html

- Letter sent to the chair of the GAC regarding advice on new gTLDs

Item 4: Proposed bylaws amendment to improve transparency with respect
to contract approvals

- Jon Nevett and Alistair Dixon to provide proposed changes to the
wording supplied by the General Counsel
- Jon Nevett to be invited to attend

Item 5: Next steps with respect to IDNs
- Olof Nordling to identify issues that require resolution prior to
issuing a call for new gTLDs that use IDN domains, and propose a
possible new terms of reference

- Consider whether to address terms of reference via a separate PDP, or
initially use a working group approach

Note the GNSO Council did form a working group to review the issues
report in May 2006, see:
http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-18may06.shtml and this
working group could be re-formed to focus on a few issues in
collaboration with the ccNSO.

Item 6: Next steps for improving the GNSO structure and processes

- Possible approaches for working on PDP process, versus GNSO structure

Item 7: Update on planning for Sao Paulo

Item 8: Any other business

(5:00 LA, 8:00 New York, 14:00 Brussels, 22:00 Melbourne)
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