[council] NC teleconf agenda Thursday, October 3, 2002

["DNSO Secretariat" <DNSO.secretariat@dnso.org>]

[To: council@dnso.org]

ICANN/DNSO
 DNSO Names Council Teleconference on 3 October 2002 - agenda
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dial in number: + 1 610-769-9240 (U.S. number)
Passcode: Names Council
Conference Leader: Bruce Tonkin

Coordinated Universal Time UTC 13:00 - see below for local times

Bruce Tonkin will be chairing the NC teleconference.
Scheduled time for meeting - 120 mins.

PROPOSED NAMES COUNCIL AGENDA October 3, 2002

1. Approval of Agenda
http://www.dnso.org/danso/notes/20021003.NCteleconf-agenda.html

2. Summary of last meeting
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020912.NCteleconf-minutes.html

3. Issues arising from the teleconference of 12 Sept 2002

3.1 Update on Resolutions discussed in teleconferences of 12 Sept and 26
Sept [10 mins]
- currently out for email voting for 14 day period
- decide whether this period should be shortened

3.2 Decide whether to initiate policy action on deletes issues, and whether
to create a task force [20 mins]
Deletes issues paper was published on 19 Sept 2002:
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc11/msg00042.html

3.3 ERC committee report
- suggested invite of Alejandro Pisanty for discussion [5 mins]
- final report not yet available (scheduled for around 1 Oct 2002)
- Alejandro Pisanty agreed to informally meet with Names Council members at
informal breakfast meeting, Shanghai Monday October 28, 2002
- any motions arising from final report can be put out for email vote in the
next 3 weeks, or physical vote at Names Council meeting on Tuesday October
29, 2002

4 UDRP Task Force update [15 mins]
See http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2001.NC-tor-UDRP-Review-Evaluation.html
- in 2001, Names council appointed task force to review and evaluate UDRP
- questionnaires distributed in March 2002
- J.Scott Evans appointed chair July 2002
- waiting for report from UDRP task force
- discussion - is work continuing or disband?

5 IDN Task Force update [15 mins]
- task force created July 01
- terms of reference unclear
- briefing document Feb 02
(http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-idn/Arc00/msg00063.html)
- limited activity since Feb 02
- discussion - should work continue (and if so review/create terms of
reference) or disband?

6 Structure Task Force update [15 mins]
- terms of reference:
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-str/Arc00/msg00046.html
To produce a timely impact assessment on
a) the efficacy of policy making within the DNSO,
b) the efficacy of ICANN decision making as a result of the proposals from
the at-large study committee, the desire of the ccTLDs to form their own
supporting organisation and other proposals and;
- on 14 March 2002 meeting, Names Council decided to address the issue at
the Names Council level
- Names Policy Development Process Assistance Group produced a report on 21
August 2002
(http://www.icann.org/committees/evol-reform/npdpag-report-21aug02.htm)
- discussion - is it appropriate to formally close this task force given
events since 14 March 2002?

7. Discussion of Jordyn Buchanan's proposal regarding Task force chairs (not
for decision) http://www.dnso.org/temp/20021003.NCmotion-Buchanan.html [15
mins]

8. Budget items [15 mins]
- update on constituency payments
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020905.ICANN-DNSO-finances-recap.html
- update on constituency status with regard to Names Council sanctions
procedure.
(see Section 12 of
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020418.NCprocedures-v7.0.html)

9. Agenda topics for next meeting (Tuesday 28 Oct 2002, Shanghai)
- Transfers Task Force update
- WHOIS Task Force update
- Discussion on Dept of Commerce MOU (proposed by Harold Feld in 26 Sept
teleconference)
- Discussion on role of Governments (proposed by Marilyn Cade in 26 Sept
teleconference)

10. Any other business

Note:

Next Names Council meeting to be held in Shanghai
at the Shanghai Convention Center, F3 International Hall: October 29, 2002
at 14:00 local time.

(6:00 LA, 9:00 New York, 15:00 Paris, Japan/ Korea 22:00, 23:00 Melbourne)
Local time between April and October, Summer in the Northern Hemisphere



  ------------------------------------------------------------
  Reference (Coordinated Universal Time)     UTC         13:00
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  California, USA                            UTC-8+1DST   6:00
  Monterrey, Mexico                          UTC-6+1DST   8:00
  Lima, Peru                                 UTC-5+0DST   8:00
  Washington DC, USA                   (EST) UTC-5+1DST   9:00
  St.Thomas, Virgin Islands                  UTC-4+0DST   9:00
  Buenos Aires, Argentina                    UTC-3+0DST  10:00
  London, United Kingdom                     UTC+0+1DST  14:00
  Brussels, Belgium                    (CET) UTC+1+1DST  15:00
  Barcelona, Spain                     (CET) UTC+1+1DST  15:00
  Frankfurt, Germany                   (CET) UTC+1+1DST  15:00
  Paris, France                        (CET) UTC+1+1DST  15:00
  Jerusalem, Israel                          UTC+2+1DST  16:00
  Seoul, Korea                               UTC+9+0DST  22:00
  Tokyo, Japan                               UTC+9+0DST  22:00
  Melbourne, Australia                      UTC+10+0DST  23:00
  Auckland, New Zealand                     UTC+12+0DST  01:00 (Friday)
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of October (with some exceptions)
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  For other places see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/


The full participants are the 21 NC members as listed in
http://www.dnso.org/constituency/ncmembers.html,
DNSO Secretariat and ICANN Officers.

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

                 Information from:  © DNSO Names Council