Draft Agenda for Council meeting Tuesday 17 January 2006 Coordinated Universal Time UTC 19:00 (11am Los Angeles, 2pm Washington DC, 7pm London, 6am (next day) Melbourne ) Item 1: Approval of minutes of 2 Dec 2005 and 21 Dec 2005 Item 2: Update on new gTLD policy development process - advise constituency representatives Item 3: Update on WHOIS poloicy development - preliminary report on purpose of WHOIS - current work Item 4: IETF draft on IDN issues - discuss document authored by John Klensin and Patrik Fältström - see http://www.iab.org/documents/drafts/draft-iab-idn-nextsteps-00.txt Abstract: This note describe issues raised by the deployment and use of Internationalized Domain Names. It describes problems both at the time of registration and those for use of those names for use in the DNS. It recommends that IETF should update the IDN related RFCs and a framework to be followed in doing so, as well as summarizing and identifying some work that is required outside the IETF. In particular, it proposes that some changes be investigated for the IDNA standard and its supporting tables, based on experience gained since those standards were completed. Document status: This document reviews the IDN landscape from an IETF perspective and presents the recommendations and conclusions of an IAB-convened ad hoc committee charged with reviewing IDN issues and the path forward (See Section 6). Its recommendations are recommendations to the IETF, or in a few cases to other bodies, for topics to be examined and actions to be taken if those bodies, after their examinations, consider those actions appropriate. Neither the IAB nor the members of the ad hoc committee have yet reached consensus that this document is ready for final publication. However, the IAB concluded that it was appropriate to expose it, as a working draft, for community comment and feedback. Such comments should be sent to iab@iab.org (relevant material will be forwarded to the IAB IDN Ad Hoc committee). Item 5: Update on status of proposed .com agreement Item 6: Next steps on policy issues related to proposed .com agreement E.g - policy for renewal of gtld agreements - funding model policy (possible new policy) - policy for capping fees that a registry can charge - exclusions in agreements from future consensus polices or changes in consensus polices Item 7: Any other business Regards, Bruce Tonkin