Proposed GNSO Council Agenda Thursday, February 19, 2004

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

Coordinated Universal Time UTC 19:00 - see below for local times
(11am Los Angeles, 2pm Washington DC, 7pm London, 6am (next day) 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 Agenda

Item 2: Approval of minutes of last meeting
- 22 January 2004
- Actions arising

Item 3: Approve timelines for WHOIS task forces (15 mins)
Receive an update from the WHOIS task force chairs: Brian Darville, Jeff Neuman, Jordyn Buchanan

Approve timelines for:
Submission of constituency statements - March 19, 2004
Distribute Preliminary Task Force Report - April 9, 2004
Public Comment Period Closes - April 29, 2004
Publish Final Report - May 20, 2004

Item 4: Discuss constituency statements 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 provide intput ot he Staff Manager to allow production of a Preliminary Report in time for the meeting in Rome

Item 5: Election process for ICANN Board seat #13 [15 mins]
- review nominations received
- confirm timeline for voting


Item 5: Update on planning for ICANN meetings in Rome[15 mins]
- proposed four PDP workshops
- Council breakfast and invitation to Board
- Council meeting and invitation to Board
- WSIS presentation

Item 6: Expectations on ICANN staff manager for GNSO policy support [15 mins]
- guidelines for producing issues report
- preliminary reports
- timelines for deliverables
- reporting structure Item

Item 7: GNSO Council and PDP review [15 mins]
- lessons learned
- how to improve [15 mins]

Item 8: Any other business

(11:00 LA, 14:00 New York, 20:00 Paris, 04:00 Japan/Korea, Friday 23 January, 06:00 Melbourne, Friday 23 January.
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Irving, Texas (CST) UTC-6+0DST 13:00
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Buenos Aires, Argentina UTC-3+0DST 16:00
Sao Paulo, Brazil UTC-3+1DST 17:00
London, United Kingdom UTC+0+0DST 19:00
Brussels, Belgium (CET) UTC+1+0DST 20:00
Barcelona, Spain (CET) UTC+1+0DST 20:00
Karlsruhe, Germany (CET) UTC+1+0DST 20:00
Stockholm, Sweden (CET) UTC+1+0DST 20:00
Paris, France (CET) UTC+1+0DST 20:00
Zeist, Netherlands (CET) UTC +1+0DST 20:00
Seoul, Korea UTC+9+0DST 04:00 Friday 23 January
Melbourne, Australia UTC+10+1DST 06:00 Friday 23 January
Auckland, Wellington, New Zealand UTC+12+1DST 08:00 Friday 23 January
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