[council] Draft Agenda for GNSO Council teleconference - Thursday 17 Feb 2005

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday 17 February 2005

Coordinated Universal Time UTC 19:00

(11am Los Angeles, 2pm Washington DC, 7pm London, 6am (next day)
Melbourne ) 

Item 1: Approval of minutes

Item 2: Report on Amsterdam Consultation on the ICANN Strategic Plan 7-8
February 2005

Item 3: Update on procedure for use by ICANN in considering requests for
consent and related contractual amendments to
allow changes in the architecture and operation of a gTLD registry.   

Item 4: Update on WHOIS task forces


Item 5: Election for ICANN Board seat #14 (currently held by Michael
Palage)
- the GNSO Council must affirm the vote of Board Seat #14 no later than
5 May 2005
- the elected Board member takes up seat #14 on 5 June 2005
- Proposed process:

-- Call for nominations: Friday 11 March 2005 
Call to be sent out on Council list.
(only Council members, based on consultation with their constituencies,
can nominate) 
-- End of nominations: Friday 25 March 2005
-- hold election in person at the GNSO Council meeting in Mar del Plata,
6 April 2005
(note a majority of the Council votes must be in favour of the
successful candidate - this may require multiple rounds of voting)


Item 6: Report from ICANN staff on current complaints raised by Internet
users and registrants

Item 7: Update from ICANN staff on new appointments, and plans for
issues report on re-registration of recently deleted names

Item 8: Any other business