Dear Council Members, Please find the proposed GNSO Council Agenda for the teleconference on 20 November 2007. Please note the changed time of the meeting. The meeting times will change for every meeting from now till the Delhi meetings in February so that the pain of unfriendly times is distributed. Coordinated Universal Time UTC 21:00 - see below for local times (13:00 Los Angeles, 16:00 Washington DC, 21:00 London, 22:00 Brussels, 08:00 Melbourne, next day) Avri Doria will be chairing the GNSO Council meeting Scheduled time for meeting 120 mins. Dial-in numbers sent individually to Council members. Agenda approval Item 0: Roll call of Council members Item 1: Update any statements of interest Item 2: Approval of the draft GNSO Council minutes of 11 October 2007 - (agenda, Items 0 -2 15 mins) http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04014.html Item 3: Intergovernmental Organization Dispute Resolution Process (IGO-DRP) vote (15) Intergovernmental Organization Dispute Resolution Process (IGO-DRP) developed by staff: http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-igo-drp-report-v2-28sep07.pdf Motion that failed in LA Whereas, the Council has previously requested and received both the 15 June 2007 "GNSO Issues Report on Dispute Handling for IGO Names and Abbreviations" and the 28 September 2007 "Staff Report on Draft IGO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure;" and Whereas, the Council believes that further work on the draft IGO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure is appropriate before voting on whether to initiate a policy development process on this issue; and Whereas, the Intellectual Property Constituency is willing to lead a small ad hoc group to review and consider a proposed draft dispute resolution procedure, Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Council authorizes the creation of a small ad hoc group of interested informed and representative stakeholders and members of the GAC to review, consider and propose as appropriate revisions to the Draft IGO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure set forth in the Staff Report, and instructs the ad hoc group to report to the Council with its recommendations not later than 15 February 2008. Item 4: Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy PDP vote (15) Meeting transcript from L.A.: http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/transcripts-gnso-council-transfers27oct07.pdf Issues Report: http://gnso.icann.org/issues/transfers/issues-report-transfer-denial-clarifi... In the second URL above, especially note Section 2.2.e, staff recommendation for a PDP and Section 5, DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE POLICY OUTCOMES Item 5: IDN ccTLD WG Discussion (15) Draft GNSO comments revised in L.A: http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/ccnso-gac-issues-paper-idn-ccs-draft-gnso-comme... Item 6: GNSO response to BGC WG on GNSO Improvements (30) Draft Report of the BGC on GNSO Improvements http://icann.org/topics/gnso-improvements/gnso-improvements-report-15oct07.p... Item 7: Establishment of a general GNSO discussion list, similar to the ones for NANOG and IETF. (15) Item 8: Letter on behalf of Hagen Hultzsch re job description for open GNSO Council position in 2008 http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04100.html Item 9: Pending Work Item Review (10) http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pendirevisng-action-list.pdf (Link to Pending Work Item Review is permanently displayed on page: http://gnso.icann.org/ below 'Master Calendar') Item 10: AOB (13:00 Los Angeles, 16:00 Washington DC, 21:00 London, 22:00 Brussels, 08:00 Melbourne, next day) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Local time between October and March, Winter in the NORTHERN hemisphere ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference (Coordinated Universal Time) UTC 21:00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- California, USA (PST) UTC-8-0DST 13:00 New York/Washington DC, USA (EST) UTC-5+0DST 16:00 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil UTC-2+1DST 19:00 Buenos Aires, Argentina UTC-3+0DST 18:00 London, United Kingdom (BST) UTC+0DST 21:00 Brussels, Belgium (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 22:00 Karlsruhe, Germany (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 22:00 Barcelona, Spain (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 22:00 Oslo, Norway (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 22:00 Amman, Jordan UTC+2+0DST 23:00 Phnom Penh, Cambodia UTC+7+0DST 04:00 Hong Kong, China UTC+8+0DST 05:00 Singapore, Singapore UTC+8+0DST 05:00 Melbourne, Australia (EST) UTC+10+1DST 08:00 (next day) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of March 2008, 2:00 or 3:00 local time (with exceptions) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For other places see http://www.timeanddate.com Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org