[council] Draft Agenda for GNSO Council teleconference on Thursday 18 August 2005

[Bruce Tonkin]

Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday 18 August 2005

Coordinated Universal Time UTC 12:00

(5:00 Los Angeles, 8:00 Washington DC, 14:00 Brussels, 22:00 Melbourne)


Item 1: Approval of minutes
- meeting in Luxembourg - 12 July 2005
- teleconference - 28 July 2005

Item 2: Staff action items
- list of current GNSO work items
- legal text for WHOIS recommendation
- updated paper on past decisions relating to new gtlds
- timeline for developing GNSO review terms of reference

Item 3: IDNs
- Cary Karp to provide update on discussions at the IETF

Proposed motion:
The GNSO requests the ICANN staff to establish a working group to revise
the IDN Guidelines (version 1.0, 20 June 2003)
http://www.icann.org/general/idn-guidelines-20jun03.htm .  The working
group should comprise representatives from gtld registries, cctld
registries, application developers (e.g WWW browsers, email clients),
and other interested members of the ICANN community.

Item 4: Support for new gtlds in Internet applications

Proposed motion:
The GNSO requests that the ICANN staff create an information area on the
ICANN website for developers of software applications that directly use
domain names and IP addresses (e.g DNS resolvers etc).   This area would
contain contributions from the ICANN community on how best to support
new TLDs, and IDNs in applications.    Press releases for new TLDs
should contain a direct link to this information area.


Item 5: Review compliance of registrars with current WHOIS accuracy
requirements

Proposed Motion: 
The GNSO agrees to create a working group, with a representative group
of volunteers from the GNSO, to work with the ICANN staff to review the
effectiveness and compliance of the current contractual requirements
with respect to WHOIS accuracy.  The group will take as input (1) the
WDPRS report released on March 31st 2004, (2) the WDRP report released
on November 20th 2004, and (3) the impact of ICANN's compliance plan.
The working group will be chaired by Niklas Lagergren.


Item 6: Next steps on new gtlds
- review of updated paper from Olof Nordling
- recommend next steps

Item 7:  Discussion of proposed changes to ICANN bylaws to improve
transparency with respect to contract approvals
- see
http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01224.html
- presentation from chair of registrars constituency and chair of
registrar constituency subcommittee reviewing bylaws

Item 8: Fortnightly planning meetings
- see message from Marilyn Cade
 http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01212.html 

Item 9: Issues report on single letter second level and top level gtld
domain names
- http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01220.html

Item 10: Proposed joint Council/Board meeting in Vancouver
- http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01223.html

- see also item 8 above

Item 11: Any other business