Hello All, Attached is a draft agenda for the meeting in Rome. Note item 4 regarding GNSO planning for the remainder of 2004. I recommend we focus on what measurable outcomes we are seeking as an organisation for gtlds (taking into account ICANN the company and the GNSO as the policy development body for gtlds). We also need to consider what is achieveable from the current ICANN staff resources for 2004 - both in terms of ability to support policy development, as well as implement policy outcomes. It is pointless doing policy work if the policy can't be implemented by ICANN and the GNSO constituencies, and if we can't measure whether the policy work was successful. We should treat policy development work as a process of continual refinement rather than trying to determine a final solution for any problem, and to do this we need to be clear on the outcomes we are seeking and be able to track performance against those outcomes. Regards, Bruce Tonkin Item 1: Approval of minutes of last meeting - 19 Feb 2004 - Actions arising Item 2: Update on WHOIS task forces (30 mins) Receive an update from the WHOIS task force chairs - key outcomes from workshops - assess current level of consensus - possible recommendations Item 3:Update on PDP for approval process for gtld registry changes (30 mins) Receive an update from the GNSO Committee chair (Bruce Tonkin) - key outcomes from workshops - assess current level of consensus - possible recommendations Item 4: GNSO 2004 planning (60 mins) - what are the measurable outcomes we are seeking from ICANN for 2004 given its current level of resourcing - ie how do we measure success from policy work? (examples may include establishing a baseline for current number of transfer complaints to ICANN, and seeking to reduce that by some percentage, or establishing a baseline for WHOIS data accuracy, and seeking to improve that etc) - what are the priority areas for further work Note the following ranked list of priorities was discussed in the meeting of 29 October 2004: (1) registry services (2) WHOIS (3) new gtlds (4) enforcement (5) UDRP Marc Schneiders has also suggested considering policy aspects associated with possible re-assignment of the .net gtld. Item 5: Any other business Regards, Bruce Tonkin