Please note the unusual day (Wednesday rather than Thursday) as well as the change in time to reflect the shift to/from daylight savings time (depending where in the world you are located). The Council calls will continue at this time until around April 2006. Regards, Bruce

-----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin Sent: Wednesday, 9 November 2005 7:01 PM To: council@gnso.icann.org Subject: [council] Draft Agenda for GNSO Council teleconference on Wednesday 16 November 2005

Draft Agenda for Council meeting Wednesday 16 November 2005

Coordinated Universal Time UTC 19:00

(11:00 LA, 14:00 Washington, 19:00 UTC, 20:00 Brussels, 8:00 Wellington next day 17 November)

Item 1: Approval of minutes - Council teleconference - 13 October 2005 - Council teleconference - 20 October 2005

Item 2: Staff action items - list of current GNSO work items - update from Glen on Vancouver meeting schedule

Item 3: Election of GNSO Council chair - Bruce Tonkin has been nominated and seconded - term from 18 Nov 2005 until one month after 2005 AGM (4 Jan 2006)

Item 4: Evaluation of new gtlds (.biz, .info etc as well as .travel, .jobs. .mobi etc) - update on questions to structure the evaluation

Item 5: Policy Development Process for new gtlds - discuss issues report - decide whether to commence a PDP

Item 6: Policy development for IDNs - discuss background document - decide whether to formally request an issues report

Item 7: WHOIS: Final Recommendation regarding handling conflicts between a registrar/registry's legal obligations under privacy laws and their contractual obligations to ICANN - vote on final recommendation as completed by the WHOIS task force on 19 Oct

Item 8: WHOIS task force - progress on purpose and definitions of contacts

Item 9: Update on GNSO strategic plan

Item 10: Update on GNSO operational plan

Item 11: Any other business