Draft Agenda for Council meeting Thursday 21 October 2004 12:00 UTC (10pm Melbourne, 1pm London, 8am Washington, 5am Los Angeles) Item 1: Approval of minutes of 9 September 2004 Item 2: Draft initial report on procedure for use by ICANN in considering requests for consent and related contractual amendments to allow changes in the architecture operation of a gTLD registry. [20 mins] Review latest draft from ICANN staff (not yet available) Item 3: New gtld strategy implementation [20 mins] See: http://www.icann.org/topics/gtld-strategy-area.html Item 4: Update on WHOIS [20 mins] Item 5: GNSO Council review by ICANN Board [20 mins] - Council to do self-review as input to external consultant Item 6: GNSO Council elections - terms of some Council members expire at end of 2004 annual general meeting Item 7: GNSO Council chair election - Bruce Tonkin's term expires 20 Nov 2004 - recommend start two week nomination period - hold election at next Council meeting Regards, Bruce Tonkin