GNSO Council Teleconference Agenda

Draft Agenda for GNSO Council meeting Thursday, June 2, 2005

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, 13:00 London, 14:00 Brussels, 22:00 Melbourne

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 12 May 2005

Item 2: Staff Report
- current areas of work - WHOIS, new gTLDs, transfers, IDNs
- update on .net agreement and new sponsored agreements
- update on strategic/operational planning process
- status on meeting agenda for Luxembourg

Item 3: Consideration of the final report from the WHOIS task force with respect to improving notification and consent for the use of contact data in the Whois system.
http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg00963.html

Item 4. Approval of new terms of reference for combined WHOIS task force, and approval of membership and voting rules

Item 5: Process for use by ICANN in considering requests for consent and related contractual amendments to allow changes in the architecture operation of a gTLD registry.
- update

Item 6: Transfer policy staff report
- update

Item 7: new gTLDs
- discuss next steps for staff to begin to develop issues reports

Item 8: Internationalised Domain Names
- update

Item 9: Comments on 2005/2006 budget operational plan

Item 10: Any other business

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