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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