[council] START TIME DELAYED BY ONE HOUR - Council meeting - Thursday 1 February 2007 (now 20:00 UTC)

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

Hello All,

At the request of members of the Intellectual Property Constituency who
will be presenting the revised working group proposal, I have delayed
the start of the Council meeting on 1 February by one hour.   The
duration of the conference call will be capped at one hour.

New start times are:

12:00 LA, 15:00 Washington DC, 20:00 UTC, 21:00 Brussels, 7:00
Melbourne, next day 2 February 2007

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin



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> Draft Agenda for Council meeting - Thursday 1 February 2007
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> 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
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> 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
> 
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> 
> 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.
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> Item 5:  Any other business
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> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin
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