[council] Draft Agenda for Council meeting - Thursday 1 February 2007

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

Note I have replaced the terminology of "sunrise processes" with the
more neutral terminology borrowed from the most recent new gTLD round
"Protecting the rights of others".   At the request of ICANN staff, I
have also added an agenda item 4 to agree the process for selecting
ICANN Board Seat #13.
 


Draft Agenda for Council meeting - Thursday 1 February 2007


11:00 LA, 14:00 Washington DC, 19:00 UTC, 20:00 Brussels, 6:00 Melbourne
next day 2 February 2007


Item 0: Roll call of Council members on the call

Item 1: Update any statements of interest

Item 2: Approval of Minutes

- 18 January 2007


Item 3: Proposed Working Group on "Protecting the rights of others"

- Proposal to form a GNSO working group to consider possible policies
and practices that minimize abusive registration activities and other
activities that affect the legal rights of others. 

- Kristina Rosette and Ute Decker to draft terms of reference for
Consideration



Item 4:  Process for electing a replacement for ICANN Board seat #13

Alejandro Pisanty's term on the ICANN Board concludes 6 months after the
ICANN annual meeting in 2006 (ie 8 June 2007).     As recorded in the
minutes of 19 Feb 04
(http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-19feb04.shtml)
Alejandro is not eligible for re-election as he has reached the term
limit provisions in the ICANN bylaws ("no Director may serve more than
three consecutive terms").

The GNSO must inform the Secretary of ICANN of its selection for Board
Seat #13 before 8 May 2007.

Note also at any given time, no two Directors selected by a Supporting
Organization shall be citizens of the same country or of countries
located in the same Geographic Region.   Rita Rodin was recently
selected by the GNSO to fill ICANN Board Seat #14, and is from North
America.   

(From ICANN bylaws http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#VI , Article
VI, section 8, clauses 1(e) and 3, and Section 2, clause 3)

The GNSO Secretariat will propose a timeline/process for consideration.


Item 5:  Any other business


Regards,
Bruce Tonkin