GNSO Council Teleconference Agenda

Proposed GNSO Council Agenda Monday 6 February 2006

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 am Los Angeles, 14:00 Washington DC, 19:00 London, 6:00 am (next day) Melbourne, 8:00am Wellington next day 7 February 2006)


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

Dial-in number sent individually to each Council member.

Approval of Agenda

Item 1: Approval of minutes
- GNSO Council teleconference minutes 17 January 2006

Item 2: Issues Report on policy issues raised in the proposed .com
agreement
- consider the issues report (due 1 February 2006)
- decide whether to initiate the PDP
(see "Initiation of PDP" in section 3, Annex A, of the ICANN bylaws)
"3. Initiation of PDP
The Council shall initiate the PDP as follows:

a. Issue Raised by the Board. If the Board directs the Council to initiate the PDP, then the Council shall meet and do so within fifteen (15) calendar days after receipt of the Issue Report, with no intermediate vote of the Council.

b. Issue Raised by Other than by the Board. If a policy issue is presented to the Council for consideration via an Issue Report, then the Council shall meet within fifteen (15) calendar days after receipt of such Report to vote on whether to initiate the PDP. Such meeting may be convened in any manner deemed appropriate by the Council, including in person, via conference call or via electronic mail.

c. Vote of the Council. A vote of more than 33% of the Council members present in favor of initiating the PDP will suffice to initiate the PDP; unless the Staff Recommendation stated that the issue is not properly within the scope of the ICANN policy process or the GNSO, in which case a Supermajority Vote of the Council members present in favor of initiating the PDP will be required to initiate the PDP."

Item 3: Initial Report on new gTLDs
- consider constituency statements and public comments (due 31 January
2006)
- discuss content of Initial Report (due on 15 February 2006)
(see section 8 (c), Annex A, of the ICANN bylaws)

"c. The Staff Manager will take all Constituency Statements, Public Comment Statements, and other information and compile (and post on the Comment Site) an Initial Report within fifty (50) calendar days after initiation of the PDP. Thereafter, the PDP shall follow the provisions of Item 9 below in creating a Final Report."

Item 4: Next meeting - 21 February 2006
- Consider holding a two day physical meeting around 21 February 2006 in
Washington, DC to advance the work on policy issues in items 2 and 3
above
- note the Final Report on new gTLDs is due on 15 March 2006
(see section 9 (c), Annex A, of the ICANN bylaws)

c. The Staff Manager shall prepare the Final Report and submit it to the Council chair within ten (10) calendar days after the end of the public comment period."

Item 5: Statements of Interest

Item 6: Discussion of latest IAB draft on IDNs
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-idn-nextsteps-02.txt

Item 7: Any other business

(11:00 LA, 14:00 Washington DC, 20:00 Brussels, 06:00 Melbourne, Tuesday 7 February 2006.
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