Dear Council Members, REMINDER: There will be a GNSO Council teleconference on Thursday, 19 October 2006 at 12:00 (noon) UTC. (5:00am Los Angeles, 8:00am Washington DC, 9:00 am Buenos Aires, 13:00 London, 14:00 Brussels, 19:00 Phnom Penh, 22:00 Melbourne, 01:00 Friday Auckland Please let me know if you will be able to participate and whether you need me to resend the dial-in details. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen Agenda: http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-19oct06.shtml Item 1: Update any statements of interest Item 2: Approval of Minutes - 28 September 2006 http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg02876.html Item 3: Correspondence - Letter sent to the Board regarding biz, info, org agreements http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg02880.html - Letter sent to the chair of the GAC regarding advice on new gTLDs Item 4: Proposed bylaws amendment to improve transparency with respect to contract approvals - Jon Nevett and Alistair Dixon to provide proposed changes to the wording supplied by the General Counsel - Jon Nevett to be invited to attend Item 5: Next steps with respect to IDNs - Olof Nordling to identify issues that require resolution prior to issuing a call for new gTLDs that use IDN domains, and propose a possible new terms of reference http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg02893.html - Consider whether to address terms of reference via a separate PDP, or initially use a working group approach Note the GNSO Council did form a working group to review the issues report in May 2006, see: http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-18may06.shtml and this working group could be re-formed to focus on a few issues in collaboration with the ccNSO. Item 6: Next steps for improving the GNSO structure and processes - Possible approaches for working on PDP process, versus GNSO structure Item 7: Update on planning for Sao Paulo Item 8: Any other business -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org