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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