[announce] GNSO Council teleconference agenda - 22 May 2003

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ICANN/DNSO

            GNSO Council Teleconference on 22 May 2003 - agenda

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Proposed GNSO Council Agenda Thursday , May 22 2003

This agenda was established according to the Rules of Procedure for the DNSO
Names Council
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020418.NCprocedures-v7.0.html

Coordinated Universal Time UTC 12:00 - see below for local times

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

Dial-in number sent individually to each Council member.

     1. Approval of Agenda

     2. Summary of last meetings
     http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20030417.GNSOteleconf-minutes.html

     3. Ratify email vote on ICANN Board seat #13 resolution [15 mins]

     4. Process to elect GNSO Council chair [10 mins]

     5. Final report on structure new gtld space [20 mins]
     - council to approve report for forwarding to the ICANN Board

     6. Discussion of staff manager's report on privacy [30mins]
     - council to decide whether to initiate the next step in the policy
development process
     - council to decide whether to appoint a task force

     7. Motion to recommend to the ICANN Board to adjust the quorum
     requirements for the GNSO Council in the ICANN Bylaws [15 mins]:

     "Council recommends that the ICANN Board change the ICANN by-law
     relating to quorum in the GNSO (Article X, section 3(8)) from the
present text:

     "Members entitled to cast a majority of the total number of votes of
GNSO Council members then in office shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business...."
     with
     "A majority of the total number of Council members in office, provided
that those members are entitled to cast a majority of the total number of
votes of GNSO Council, shall constitute a quorum".

     9. Update on the deletes implementation committee [10 mins]

     10. Budget update: [15 mins]
     - status of constituency payments for 2003
     - balance of account

     11. Updated GNSO rules of procedure [5 mins]
     - no comments have been received
     - schedule for vote at the June meeting

     12. Any other business

     Agenda topics for next meeting (24 June 2003)
     o UDRP policy development
     o ratify election for GNSO Chair
     o approve GNSO rules of procedure
     o approve deletes task force recommendations
     o budget update

     (5:00 LA, 8:00 New York, 14:00 Paris, 21:00 Japan/Korea, 22:00
     Melbourne)
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     Local time between April and October, Summer in the NORTHERN hemisphere

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     Seoul, Korea UTC+9+0DST 21:00
     Melbourne, Australia UTC+10+0DST 22:00
     Auckland, New Zealand UTC+12+0DST 24:00
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