Dear Councillors, Attached and in plain text below, please find the proposed agenda for the GNSO Council meeting on Thursday, 7 May 2009 at 14:00 UTC. Please note the date and time and please make every effort to attend as quorum is required to conduct the business of the Council. This agenda was established according to the Rules of Procedure for the GNSO Council Coordinated Universal Time 14:00 UTC - see below for local times (07:00 Los Angeles, 10:00 Washington DC, 15:00 London, 16:00 Brussels, 00:00 Melbourne next day) Avri Doria 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 Item 1: Update any statements of interest Item 2: Review/amend agenda Item 3: Approve GNSO Council minutes (Items 1-3 15 mins.) GNSO Council minutes 16 April 2009 Item 4: Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Policy Development Process (PDP) decision (deferred from previous meeting) (20 mins.) GNSO Issues Report on Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery See motion on Wiki https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?07_may_motions Item 5: GAC Position Paper on Geographic Names (20 mins.) GAC Response to Geographic Terms Protection Item 6: Whois service requirements motion (10 mins.) See motion on Wiki https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?07_may_motions Item 7: Preparation for the Sydney meetings (10 mins.) Item 8: Status Updates (20 mins) 8. 1 Board Update Board Agenda 23 April 2009 8. 2 ccNSO Liaison update 8. 3 Geographical Region WG update 8. 4 Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) status update Draft Report - Introduction: Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) Other references: WIKI for Overarching Issues discussions: https://st.icann.org/new-gtld-overarching-issues/index.cgi?new_gtld_overarch... New gTLD Page: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm 8. 5 Joint GNSO/ccNSO group to discuss coordination of timing for IDN TLDs (Avri Doria /Chris Disspain) update 8. 6 Policy Items 8. 6. 1. Working Groups 8. 6. 1. 1. Fast Flux 8. 6. 1. 2. Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAPWG) 8. 6. 2. Drafting Teams 8. 6. 2. 1. Travel Policy Drafting Team - Travel Database for Sydney 8. 6. 2. 2. IDN gTLD Fast Track 8. 6. 3 GNSO Improvement Work Teams 8. 6. 3. 1 Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC) Policy Development Process (PDP) work team (WT) 8. 6. 3. 2. PPSC Working Group work team WGWT 8. 6. 3. 3. Operations Steering Committee (OSC) Communications coordination work team 8. 6. 3. 4. OSC Constituency operations work team 8. 6. 3. 5. OSC GNSO Council operations work team 8. 7. Restructuring group http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-action-list.pdf 8. 7. 1. Status of By-Law discussions Item 9: AOB (07:00 Los Angeles, 10:00 Washington DC, 15:00 London, 1600 Brussels, 00:00 Melbourne next day) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Local time between March and October, Summer in the NORTHERN hemisphere ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference (Coordinated Universal Time) UTC 14:00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- California, USA (PST) UTC-7+1DST 07:00 New York/Washington DC, USA (EST) UTC-4+1DST 10:00 Buenos Aires, Argentina UTC-3+0DST 11:00 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil UTC-3+0DST 11:00 London, United Kingdom (BST) UTC+1DST 15:00 Brussels, Belgium (CET) UTC+1+1DST 16:00 Paris, France (CET) UTC+1+1DST 16:00 Barcelona, Spain (CET) UTC+1+1DST 16:00 Karachi, Pakistan UTC+5+0DST 20:00 Hong Kong, China UTC+8+0DST 22:00 Singapore, Singapore UTC+8+0DST 22:00 Melbourne, Australia (EDT) UTC+10+0DST 00:00 (Friday) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of October 2009, 2:00 or 3:00 local time (with exceptions) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For other places see http://www.timeanddate.com Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org