[To:council@gnso.icann.org] Dear Council Members, Please find the GNSO Council agenda for Thursday 6 December 2007 at: http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-06dec07.shtml posted on pages: http://gnso.icann.org/ http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#dec Coordinated Universal Time UTC 15:00 - see below for local times (07:00 Los Angeles, 10:00 Washington DC, 15:00 London, 16:00 Brussels, 23:00 Hong Kong) Avri Doria will be chairing the GNSO Council meeting Scheduled time for meeting 120 mins. Dial-in numbers sent to Council members. Review/Approve Agenda (5) Item 0: Roll call of Council members Item 1: Update any statements of interest (5 mins) Item 2 - Approve Nominating Committee job description (10 mins) Review copy sent to GNSO mailing list by 30 Nov 07 Item 3 - Status update on Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Planning Group (10 mins) Item 4 - 'Whois Studies' (10 mins) - Set up team to create a studies suggestion form http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/ 20071031-3 "Part 3 of the resolution: Recognizes the demand for future policy development including, but not limited to, ensuring appropriate privacy safeguards for natural persons, lawful access to data for rights enforcement, consumer protection, law enforcement and anti-crime purposes and will immediately initiate the following sequential actions: 1) Council shall provide additional definition regarding the potential data gathering and study requirements 2) staff shall provide the Council with rough cost estimates for various components of data gathering and studies no later than February 15th, 2008; 3) the Council will decide what data gathering and studies would be pursued; and 4) staff will perform the resulting data gathering and studies and report the results back to the Council." Item 5 - IDNC and new ccTLD allocation issues discussion (30 mins) References: Board Resolution http://www.icann.org/minutes/resolutions-02nov07.htm#_Toc55609363 IDNC Charter http://www.ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/idnc-charter.htm a. - description of the issue b. - report on GNSO chair exchange with ccNSO chair c. - report on any preparatory meeting that may have been held d. - consider a formal request to ICANN Board for clarification on whether they approved the details of the ccNSO charter (i.e. only 2 gNSO representatives) or were approving a balanced and equal participation as the resolution (07.89) itself seems to indicate. e. - consider a request to ask Board to consider opening IDNC to equitable particpation f. - discuss need to determine current gNSO position on creating IDN ccTLDs and its relation to the GSNO ccNSO.GAC question repsonses g. - status of the reworking of the GNSO question responses Item 6 - Chose representative selection for IDNC (30 mins) This part of the meeting may be closed since it will involve discussion of candidates for the 2 open positions on the IDNC a. Decide on closing and halting the recording for this part of the meeting b. Discuss candidates and pick 2 as required by the current IDNC charter Item 7 - Action Item Review (10 mins) http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-action-list.pdf Item 8 - AOB (5 mins) (07:00 Los Angeles, 10:00 Washington DC, 15:00 London, 16:00 Brussels, 23:00 Hong Kong) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Local time between October and March, Winter in the NORTHERN hemisphere ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference (Coordinated Universal Time) UTC 15:00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- California, USA (PST) UTC-8-0DST 07:00 Cedar Rapids, Iowa,USA (CST) UTC-6-0DST 09:00 New York/Washington DC, USA (EST) UTC-5+0DST 10:00 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil UTC-2+1DST 13:00 Buenos Aires, Argentina UTC-3+0DST 12:00 London, United Kingdom (BST) UTC+0DST 15:00 Brussels, Belgium (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 16:00 Karlsruhe, Germany (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 16:00 Barcelona, Spain (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 16:00 Oslo, Norway (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 16:00 Amman, Jordan UTC+2+0DST 17:00 Dubai UTC+4+0DST 19:00 Phnom Penh, Cambodia UTC+7+0DST 22:00 Hong Kong, China UTC+8+0DST 23:00 Singapore, Singapore UTC+8+0DST 23:00 Melbourne, Australia (EST) UTC+10+1DST 02:00 (next day) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of March 2008, 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. Kind regards; Glen -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org