Hello All, Note that the recent email discussions regarding purpose, date, location, and agenda of the meeting in February all relate to agenda item 4 of the next GNSO Council meeting. The agenda is online at: http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-6feb06.shtml We had an already scheduled teleconference for 21 February, but given the amount of work we have on I thought that a physical meeting of longer duration (e.g 2 days) would be a more effective way of making progress on our current work items. It looks like 21 Feb will not work for most Council members, so we have been trying to identify an alternative date that might work. Any decision in this area will be made at the next Council call on 6 Feb. The current work item for meeting later in February is: - PDP on new gTLDs being undertaken by a committee of the whole Council Also on the agenda for the 6 Feb 2006, is a discussion on whether to initiate a PDP on any issues identified in an issues report requested at our last meeting. This is the topic of agenda item 2. Depending on the outcome of agenda item 2, this will have an impact on the agenda of any meeting later in February. I hope that clarifies things as there have been many subsequent threads of discussion since the draft agenda was posted on 20 Jan 2006. See: http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg01821.html Regards, Bruce Tonkin