Dear Councilors, Please find the GNSO Council Agenda for 7 August 2008 http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-07aug08.shtml posted at: http://gnso.icann.org/ http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#aug and https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?gnso_council_workspace Proposed GNSO Council Agenda 7 August 2008 This agenda was established according to the Rules of Procedure for the GNSO Council Coordinated Universal Time12:00 UTC - see below for local times (05:00 Los Angeles, 08:00 Washington DC, 13:00 London, 14:00 Brussels, 22:00 Melbourne) 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 of 17 July 2008 (Items 0-3 10 mins ) http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg05254.html Item 4: Update from Denise Michel on Board activities (10 mins) Updates related Agenda Items will be moved to the agenda Item Specifically: GNSO Structure Item 5: Status Update (15 mins) 5.1 Fast Flux PDP WG Update (Mike Rodenbaugh) 5.2 Whois Hypotheses Group update (Chuck Gomes) 5.3 IRTP Denial Reasons PDP - Comment Period ended 5.4 IRTP PDP June 08 (Mike Rodenbaugh) - Status of chair selection? Vote on chair if requested. 5.5 Informational Update on Single-Letter Second-Level Registry Service Requests (Liz Gasster) 5.6 Absentee Voting update 5.7 Add Grace Period Implementation Update 5.8 Geographic regions Item 6: Discussion of IDNC Report and GNSO Response (Edmon Chung) (20 Mins) Item 7: GNSO Improvements (30 Min) 7.1 Update from GNSO Structure Consensus WG (Rob Hoggarth) http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg05245.html 7.2 Update on Board action related to GNSO Structure Plan (Denise) 7.2 Review comments on Top Level Plan (comment period ends July 18, 2008) (Rob Hoggarth) http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-tlp/ 7.3 Next Steps/Decision Item 8: Early Planning for Cairo Meeting (10 Mins) http://cai.icann.org/ Item 8.1 Joint Meetings: GAC, CCNSO, ALAC, Board Item 8.2 Working Group Meetings Item 9: Action Items (10 min) Item 10: AOB (05:00 Los Angeles, 08:00 Washington DC, 13:00 London, 14:00 Brussels, 22:00 Melbourne) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Local time between March and October, Summer in the NORTHERN hemisphere ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference (Coordinated Universal Time) UTC 12:00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- California, USA (PST) UTC-7+1DST 05:00 New York/Washington DC, USA (EST) UTC-4+1DST 08:00 Buenos Aires, Argentina UTC-3+0DST 09:00 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil UTC-3+0DST 09:00 London, United Kingdom (BST) UTC+1DST 13:00 Brussels, Belgium (CEST) UTC+1+1DST 14:00 Karlsruhe, Germany (CEST) UTC+1+1DST 14:00 Barcelona, Spain (CEST) UTC+1+1DST 14:00 Oslo, Norway (CEST) UTC+1+1DST 14:00 Amman, Jordan UTC+2+1DST 15:00 Phnom Penh, Cambodia UTC+7+0DST 19:00 Hong Kong, China UTC+8+0DST 20:00 Singapore, Singapore UTC+8+0DST 20:00 Melbourne, Australia (EST) UTC+10+0DST 22:00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of October 2008, 2:00 or 3:00 local time (with exceptions) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For other places see http://www.timeanddate.com Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org