[council] Draft GNSO Council Agenda for Thursday 19 October 2006

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

Draft Agenda for Council meeting - Thursday 19 October 2006

Coordinated Universal Time UTC 12:00

(5:00am Los Angeles, 8:00am Washington DC, 9:00am Buenos Aires, 13:00
London, 14:00 Brussels, 19:00 Phnom Penh, 22:00 Melbourne, 00:00
Auckland)

Item 1: Update any statements of interest


Item 2: Approval of Minutes

- 28 September 2006
http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg02876.html


Item 3: Correspondence

- Letter sent to the Board regarding biz, info, org agreements
http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg02880.html 

- Letter sent to the chair of the GAC regarding advice on new gTLDs



Item 4: Proposed bylaws amendment to improve transparency with respect
to contract approvals

- Jon Nevett and Alistair Dixon to provide proposed changes to the
wording supplied by the General Counsel
- Jon Nevett to be invited to attend



Item 5: Next steps with respect to IDNs
- Olof Nordling to identify issues that require resolution prior to
issuing a call for new gTLDs that use IDN domains, and propose a
possible new terms of reference

- Consider whether to address terms of reference via a separate PDP, or
initially use a working group approach

Note the GNSO Council did form a working group to review the issues
report in May 2006, see:
http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-18may06.shtml and this
working group could be re-formed to focus on a few issues in
collaboration with the ccNSO.



Item 6: Next steps for improving the GNSO structure and processes

- Possible approaches for working on PDP process, versus GNSO structure


Item 7:  Update on planning for Sao Paulo

Item 8: Any other business

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin