Proposed GNSO Council Agenda Thursday , December 18, 2003

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

Coordinated Universal Time UTC 12:00 - see below for local times

Bruce Tonkin will be chairing the GNSO Council teleconference.
Scheduled time for meeting - 180 mins.

Dial-in number sent individually to each Council member.

Item 1: Approval of Agenda

Item 2: Approval of minutes of last 2 meetings
- 20 Nov 2003
- 2 Dec 2003

Item 3: Update from WHOIS task forces (45 mins)
- report on appointments of chairs and timelines for work program
Task force 1: Restricting access to WHOIS data for marketing purposes
- chair - Jeff Neuman
Task force 2: Review of data collected and displayed
- chair - Jordyn Buchanan
Task Force 3: Improving Accuracy of collected data
- chair - Brian Darville

Item 4: Preliminary views from constituencies on the Procedure for use by ICANN in considering requests for consent and related contractual amendments to allow changes in the architecture or operation of a gTLD registry [45 mins]
- the intent of this discussion is to share any preliminary views from constiteuncies as they develop their constituency statements

Item 5: Any other business

(04 :00 LA, 07:00 New York, 13:00 Paris, 21:00 Japan/Korea, 23:00 Melbourne
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California, USA UTC-8+0DST 04:00
Mexico City, Mexico UTC-6+0DST 06:00
Washington DC, USA (EST) UTC-5+0DST 07:00
Toronto, Canada (EST) UTC-5+0DST 07:00
Buenos Aires, Argentina UTC-3+0DST 09:00
Sao Paulo, Brazil UTC-3+1DST 10:00
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil UTC-3+1DST 10:00
London, United Kingdom UTC+0+0DST 12:00 noon
Brussels, Belgium (CET) UTC+1+0DST 13:00
Barcelona, Spain (CET) UTC+1+0DST 13:00
Karlsruhe, Germany (CET) UTC+1+0DST 13:00
Stockholm, Sweden (CET) UTC+1+0DST 13:00
Paris, France (CET) UTC+1+0DST 13:00
Zeist, Netherlands (CET) UTC +1+0DST 13:00
Jerusalem, Israel UTC+2+0DST 14:00
Seoul, Korea UTC+9+0DST 21:00
Melbourne, Australia UTC+10+1DST 23:00
Auckland, Wellington, New Zealand UTC+12+1DST 01:00 Friday 19 December
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