Dear Charter Drafting Team members, Thank you for joining the Charter Drafting Team for the PDP on Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information see also the Group's wiki page <https://community.icann.org/display/tatcipdp/Translation+and+Transliteratio n+of+Contact+Information+PDP+Home> . Following the initiation of the Policy Development Process by the GNSO Council, the task of this drafting team is to develop a proposed charter for a Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information PDP Working Group, which will need to be approved by the GNSO Council. Please see below the proposed agenda for the first meeting based on the requirements outlined in the GNSO Working Group Guidelines: Proposed Agenda Charter Draft Team for the PDP on Translation and Transliteration of Contact information, Thursday 8 August, 15 UTC for local times see here: http://tinyurl.com/nh95ye3 Please note that the call details (dial-in/-out) and the link to the adobe connect room will be send separately by the GNSO Secretariat. 1. Roll Call / Statements of Interest 2. Introductions members of the DT are invited to share information regarding interests, backgrounds, skills, experience especially as related to the DT task 3. Principles of transparency and openness 4. Election of DT Leaders Normally a Chair will be selected at the first meeting of the DT. A DT may elect to have co-chars, vice-chairs. 5. Items for review: DT task (see https://community.icann.org/display/tatcipdp/Translation+and+Transliteration +of+Contact+Information+PDP+Home, Section 6 (Charter Guidelines) of the GNSO WG Guidelines (see http://gnso.icann.org/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-08apr11-en.pdf), Charter Template (see attached), Final Issue Report on Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information (attached). 6. Development of work plan to develop the charter 7. Confirmation of next meeting / next steps You are strongly encouraged to review the following documents prior to the first meeting (see also https://community.icann.org/display/tatcipdp/15+July+2013): * Final Issue Report on Translation and Transliteration of Contact Inforamtion - http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/gtlds/transliteration-contact-final-21mar13- en.pdf * Final Report of the Internationalized Registartion Data Working Group - http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/ird/final-report-ird-wg-07may12-en.pdf * GNSO Working Group Guidelines, including Charter guidelines - http://gnso.icann.org/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-08apr11-en.pdf * Charter Template (attached) Also, for those not familiar with the GNSO Policy Development Process, you may want to review the following overview at http://gnso.icann.org/en/basics/pdp-process.htm which describes the different steps of a GNSO PDP. As the election of a DT Chair is expected to take place during the first meeting, volunteers are encouraged to express their interest ahead of the meeting. We'll be using Adobe Connect to facilitate the meeting. For those of you using Adobe Connect for the first time, please find a short introduction video here: https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a227210/participatemeeting/. If you have any comments or questions, please let me know. With best regards, Lars