[council] Draft Agenda for GNSO Council teleconference on Wednesday 16 November 2005

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

Draft Agenda for Council meeting Wednesday 16 November 2005

Coordinated Universal Time UTC 19:00

(11:00 LA, 14:00 Washington, 19:00 UTC, 20:00 Brussels, 8:00 Wellington
next day 17 November)


Item 1: Approval of minutes
- Council teleconference - 13 October 2005
- Council teleconference - 20 October 2005


Item 2: Staff action items
- list of current GNSO work items
- update from Glen on Vancouver meeting schedule

Item 3: Election of GNSO Council chair
- Bruce Tonkin has been nominated and seconded
- term from 18 Nov 2005 until one month after 2005 AGM (4 Jan 2006)


Item 4: Evaluation of new gtlds (.biz, .info etc as well as .travel,
.jobs. .mobi etc)
- update on questions to structure the evaluation


Item 5: Policy Development Process for new gtlds
- discuss issues report
- decide whether to commence a PDP

Item 6: Policy development for IDNs
- discuss background document
- decide whether to formally request an issues report


Item 7: WHOIS: Final Recommendation regarding handling conflicts between
a registrar/registry's legal obligations under privacy laws and their
contractual obligations to ICANN
- vote on final recommendation as completed by the WHOIS task force on
19 Oct

Item 8: WHOIS task force
- progress on purpose and definitions of contacts

Item 9: Update on GNSO strategic plan

Item 10: Update on GNSO operational plan

Item 11: Any other business