Dear Councilors, Attached and in plain text below, please find the GNSO Council agenda for the meeting on 8 January 2009 at 19:00 UTC. The agenda is also posted on the Wiki at: https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?agenda_08_jan_2009 and the motions are posted on the Wiki at https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?08_jan_2009_motions Proposed GNSO Council Agenda 8 January 2009 This agenda was established according to the Rules of Procedure for the GNSO Council Coordinated Universal Time19:00 UTC - see below for local times (11:00 Los Angeles, 14:00 Washington DC, 19:00 London, 20:00 Brussels, 06:00 Melbourne next day) Avri Doria and Chuck Gomes will be chairing the GNSO Council meeting Scheduled time for meeting 120 mins. Dial-in numbers sent individually to Council members. Item 0: Roll call of Council members Pierre Bonis ccNSO observer http://gnso.icann.org/council/soi/bonis-soi-19dec08.shtml Item 1: Update any statements of interest Item 2: Review/amend agenda Item 3: Approve GNSO Council minutes: (Items 0-3 15 mins) 20 November 2008 http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg06026.html Item 4: Confirm GNSO Council Chair election results (Chuck Gomes chairs) (5 mins) Item 5: RAA Discussion and vote (15 mins) Updated redline copy http://www.icann.org/en/topics/raa/redline-2001-raa-25nov08.pdf Updated RAA provisions comparison http://www.icann.org/en/topics/raa/raa-provisions-comparison-16dec08.pdf Current list of proposed RAA amendments - 16 December 2008 http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-16dec08.pd... See proposed motion: https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?08_jan_2009_motions Item 6: New gTLDs Implementation (15 mins) See new gTLD motion 1 on Wiki https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?08_jan_2009_motions Next steps regarding draft New gTLD Guidebook issues for which Staff varied significantly from GNSO recommendations (geographic names, single character IDN names, other?) Item 7: IDN Deployment - Discussion and motion (15 mins) See new gTLD motion 2 on Wiki https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?08_jan_2009_motions Item 8: GNSO Improvements Operations Steering Committee (OSC) Charter approval (10 mins) See motion on Wiki https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?08_jan_2009_motions Item 9: GNSO comments re IDN ccTLD fast track implementation plan (10 mins) Item 10: Status Updates (15 mins) 10.1 Board Update 10.2 Policy Items 10.2.1 Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery 10.2.3 Travel Policy 10.2.3 Other? 10.3 Drafting Teams 10.3.1 Whois 10.3.2 Registration Abuse Policy 10.3.3 ccTLD response 10.4 Working Groups 10.4.1 Fast Flux 10.4.2 IRTP Part A PDP 10.5 GNSO "Improvements" 10.5.1 PPSC Update 10.5.2 OSC Update 10.6 GNSO Restructuring Item 11: AOB 11.1 GNSO Council Vice Chair elections 11.2 Other ? (11:00 Los Angeles, 08:00 Washington DC, 13:00 London, 20:00 Brussels, 06:00 Melbourne next day) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Local time between October and March, Winter in the NORTHERN hemisphere ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference (Coordinated Universal Time) UTC 19:00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- California, USA (PDT) UTC-8+0DST 11:00 New York/Washington DC, USA (EDT) UTC-5+0DST 14:00 Buenos Aires, Argentina UTC-3+0DST 16:00 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil UTC-3+0DST 16:00 London, United Kingdom (BST) UTC+0DST 19:00 Brussels, Belgium (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 20:00 Paris, France (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 20:00 Barcelona, Spain (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 20:00 Karachi, Pakistan UTC+5+1DST 18:00 Hong Kong, China UTC+8+0DST 03:00 Singapore, Singapore UTC+8+0DST 03:00 Melbourne, Australia (EDT) UTC+10+1DST 06:00 (Friday 9 January.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of March 2009, 2:00 or 3:00 local time (with exceptions) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For other places see http://www.timeanddate.com Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Best wishes for a happy and prosperous 2009! Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org