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GNSO Council Teleconference Agenda

Date: 
08/18/2005

Draft Agenda for GNSO Council meeting Thursday, August 18, 2005

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

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

Dial-in number sent individually to each Council member

Item 1: Approval of minutes
- GNSO Council meeting in Luxembourg - 12 July 2005
- GNSO Council teleconference - 28 July 2005

Item 2: Staff action items
- list of current GNSO work items
- legal text for WHOIS recommendation
- updated paper on past decisions relating to new gtlds
- timeline for developing GNSO review terms of reference

Item 3: Consideration of revised consensus recommendation with respect
to improving notification and consent for the use of contact data in the
Whois system
(current version posted to Council on 27 July 2005)
http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01159.html

Proposed recommendation:

"1) Registrars must provide notice in the registration agreement with
the Registered Name Holder that is easy to find, clear, and conspicuous
within the registration agreement stating:

(a) The purposes of the WHOIS service, which consists of the provision
of an interactive web page and a port 43 Whois service providing free
public query-based access to up-to-date (i.e., updated at least daily)
data concerning all active Registered Names sponsored by the Registrar.
In addition the WHOIS service includes the provision of third-party bulk
access to the data.

(b) The purposes of the Registered Name Holder, technical, and
administrative contacts

(c) Which of the contact data in (b) will be made public via the WHOIS
service in (a).

(2) ICANN must provide on its website information on industry best
practice to meet the obligation in (1) above."

Item 4: IDNs
- Cary Karp to provide update on discussions at the IETF

Proposed motion:
The GNSO requests the ICANN staff to establish a working group to revise the IDN Guidelines (version 1.0, 20 June 2003) http://www.icann.org/general/idn-guidelines-20jun03.htm . The working group should comprise representatives from gtld registries, cctld registries, application developers (e.g WWW browsers, email clients), and other interested members of the ICANN community.

Item 5: Support for new gtlds in Internet applications

Proposed motion:
The GNSO requests that the ICANN staff create an information area on the ICANN website for developers of software applications that directly use domain names and IP addresses (e.g DNS resolvers etc). This area would contain contributions from the ICANN community on how best to support new TLDs, and IDNs in applications. Press releases for new TLDs should contain a direct link to this information area.

Item 6: Review compliance of registrars with current WHOIS accuracy
requirements

Proposed Motion:
The GNSO agrees to create a working group, with a representative group of volunteers from the GNSO, to work with the ICANN staff to review the effectiveness and compliance of the current contractual requirements with respect to WHOIS accuracy. The group will take as input
(1) the WDPRS report released on March 31st 2004,
(2) the WDRP report released on November 20th 2004, and
(3) the impact of ICANN's compliance plan.
The working group will be chaired by Niklas Lagergren.

Item 7: Next steps on new gtlds
- review of updated paper from Olof Nordling
- recommend next steps

Item 8: Discussion of proposed changes to ICANN bylaws to improve transparency with respect to contract approvals
- see
http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01224.html
- presentation from chair of registrars constituency and chair of registrar constituency subcommittee reviewing bylaws

Item 9: Fortnightly planning meetings
- see message from Marilyn Cade
http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01212.html

Item 10: Issues report on single letter second level and top level gtld domain names
- http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01220.html

Item 11: Proposed joint Council/Board meeting in Vancouver
- http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01223.htm
- see also item 8 above

Item 12: Any other business

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