Dear Councillors, Apologies for the late posting. The Draft Agenda for next week's Council call is below and attached. An email with preparation materials will follow later today. Kind regards, Gabi == Draft Council Agenda ccNSO Council Meeting 8 May 2012 1. Minutes and Actions ccNSO Council Meeting 17 April 2012 1.1 Minutes 1.2 Actions 2. Updates 2.1 Chair 2.2 Vice-chairs 2.3 Councillors 2.4 Observers 2.5 ccNSO support staff 3. ccNSO Statements Process. 4. Council input to change ICANN meeting schedule 5. Cross Constituency Working Group Principles 6. Working Group and OtherUpdates 6.1 Finance Working Group 6.2 SOP Working Group 6.3 Framework of Interpretation Working Group 6.4 Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN Working Group (JIG) * Update appointments and voting. 6.5 Joint Security & Stability Working Group (DSSA) 6.6 Study Group on Use of Names for Countries and Territories 6.7 Meetings Programme WG. 6.8 Informal Study Group on Capacity Building 6.9 Public comment requests 7. ICANN Academy Working Group: Appointment Volunteers 8. GAC-ccNSO Council Topics 7.1 introduction session on ccNSO 7.2 Topics for joint meeting 9 ccNSO-GNSO Meeting Topics 10. Topics for Discussion Across Communities 11. Draft Agenda Prague Meeting 12. Liaison updates 11.1 ALAC liaison 11.2 GNSO liaison 13 . Next ccNSO Council Meetings 14 . AOB