Happy New Year to all! Just for your information I'm sending you the agenda for the council meeting on Jan. 07. There will be no motion to be discussed. Best regards Wolf-Ulrich ________________________________ GNSO Council Agenda 7 January 2010 Item 1: Administrative matters 1.1 Roll call of Council members 1.2 Update any statements of interest 1.3 Review/amend agenda 1.4. Note the status of minutes for the following Council meetings per the new Council Operating Procedures: * 17 December meeting - Approved on 31 December 2009 http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-council-17dec09-en.htm Item 2: Issues Report regarding vertical separation of Registries and Registrars 2.1 Refer to Issues Report on Vertical Integration: http://gnso.icann.org/issues/vertical-integration/report-04dec09-en.pdf 2.2 Overview of Issues Report (Margie Milam) http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/issues-report-summary-17dec09-en.pd f 2.3 Discussion 2.4 Information about the ICANN Consultation on New gTLD Registry Agreement on 7 January 2010 in Washington D.C.? (Margie/Kurt) 2.5 Next steps 2.5.1 Action regarding decision on whether or not to initiate a PDP - 28 Jan meeting? Item 3: Prioritization of GNSO work 3.1 Status Report (Olga) 3.2 Next steps? Item 4: The Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Implementation Working Team Final Report 4.1 Refer to report at http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-implementation-working-team -report-final-03dec09-en.pdf 4.2 Brief overview of report (Bart Boswinkel) 4.3 Action item: The working team report recommends that the GNSO & ccNSO do policy work with regard to the following two issues related to single-character IDN top level names: 1) selection of scripts for which single character IDN TLDs should be allowed; 2) method for allocation of single character IDN TLDs. 4.3.1 Discussion 4.3.2 Volunteers for working with ccNSO volunteers to develop a draft charter? Item 5: Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits Policy - Implementation Report 5.1 Refer to http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-report-14dec09-en.pdf 5.1.1 Staff Presentation - Craig Schwartz http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/presentation-gnso-agp-slides-07jan1 0-en.pdf 5.2 Action Items 5.3 Discussion Item 6: Status updates 6.1 Items of interest to the GNSO from the ccNSO (Olga Cavalli/Han Chuan Lee) 6.2 Other? 6.3 Questions/comments on written status updates sent in advance by leaders of Working Groups, Work Teams, staff projects, etc.? Status updates http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/notes-council-07jan10-en.htm Item 7: Any Other Business (AOB) 7.1 Staff update on plans to ensure safety and security in Nairobi 7.2.1 Draft Proposal for Affirmation of Commitments (AoC) Review Teams http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/affirmation-reviews-draft-pr oposal-26dec09-en.pdf published at: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-26dec09-en.htm 7.2.1.1 Brief review of the proposal 7.2.1.2 Should the Council submit comments on behalf of the GNSO? If so, develop plan. Public Comments: http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201001.htm#affrev 7.2.1.3 How should GNSO volunteers be identified as nominees for each of the four review teams? (Next steps?) 7.3 Joint Meeting with the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) in Nairobi 7.3.1 Discussion re. GAC proposed topics: 1) New gTLD policy implementation, including Expression of Interest (EoI); 2) Affirmation of Commitments (AoC). 7.3.2 Other possible topics to propose to the GAC? 7.3.3 Discussion re. how we should prepare for the joint GAC/GNSO session. Item 8: The updated GNSO Project Status List (formerly Pending Action Item List) is at: http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-projects-list.pdf 8.1 Questions/comments?