Hello All, I just realised that I didn't include a follow up on the current WHOIS recommendation in the agenda. This is now item 3, and I have re-numbered the other items. Regards, 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: Consideration of revised consensus recommendation with respect to improving notification and consent for the use of contact data in the Whois system (current version posted to Council on 27 July 2005) http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01159.html Proposed recommendation: "1) Registrars must provide notice in the registration agreement with the Registered Name Holder that is easy to find, clear, and conspicuous within the registration agreement stating: (a) The purposes of the WHOIS service, which consists of the provision of an interactive web page and a port 43 Whois service providing free public query-based access to up-to-date (i.e., updated at least daily) data concerning all active Registered Names sponsored by the Registrar. In addition the WHOIS service includes the provision of third-party bulk access to the data. (b) The purposes of the Registered Name Holder, technical, and administrative contacts (c) Which of the contact data in (b) will be made public via the WHOIS service in (a). (2) ICANN must provide on its website information on industry best practice to meet the obligation in (1) above." Item 4: 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 5: 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 6: 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 7: Next steps on new gtlds - review of updated paper from Olof Nordling - recommend next steps Item 8: 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 9: Fortnightly planning meetings - see message from Marilyn Cade http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01212.html Item 10: 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 11: Proposed joint Council/Board meeting in Vancouver - http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01223.html - see also item 8 above Item 12: Any other business