notes/20000418.NCtelecon-agenda.html

ICANN/DNSO

DNSO Names Council Teleconference on April 18th, 2000 - agenda

April 18th, 2000.

Date, time, phones and webcast

The Names Council teleconference will be held on April 18th at the following time:

(16:30 US East Coast, 22:30 CET, 5:30 Japan/Korea, 6:30 Melbourne)
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    Local time between April 2nd and October, 2000.
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    Reference (Coordinated Universal Time)     UTC         20:30
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    California, USA                            UTC-8+1DST  13:30
    Missouri, USA                              UTC-6+1DST  15:30
    Washington DC, USA                   (EST) UTC-5+1DST  16:30
    Santiago, Chile                            UTC-4+0DST  16:30
    Buenos Aires, Argentina                    UTC-3+0DST  17:30
    Nouakchott, Mauritania                     UTC+0+0DST  20:30
    Dublin, Ireland                            UTC+0+1DST  21:30
    Brussels, Belgium                    (CET) UTC+1+1DST  22:30
    Barcelona, Spain                     (CET) UTC+1+1DST  22:30
    Frankfurt, Germany                   (CET) UTC+1+1DST  22:30
    Paris, France                        (CET) UTC+1+1DST  22:30
    Seoul, Korea                               UTC+9+0DST   5:30
    Tokyo, Japan                               UTC+9+0DST   5:30
    Melbourne, Australia                      UTC+10+0DST   6:30
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    For other places see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Ken Stubbs is kindly providing the teleconference bridge
The NC will not be webcast due to budget constraints. To listen to the NC telecon, please call the US phone number:
```
TOLL: 212-287-1665
PCODE: 4544

Duration: APPROX 1 1/2 - 2 HOURS
# of ports: 32 - 22 full participation, 10 listen only (LISTEN ONLY
PORTS CAN BE EXPANDED PRIOR TO CALL )
```
NC representatives will tell the operator their name, and then will be connected as a full participant (includes all attending Names Council members, DNSO Secretariat and ICANN staff). Those not on the NC representatives list will be able to listen only.
Remote participants to the open NC meeting may send questions to webmaster@dnso.org

Agenda and related documents

Ken Stubbs will be chairing the NC teleconference.

Discussion and adoption of agenda

Minutes and Matters Arising

http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20000331.NCtelecon-minutes.html, last NC telecon minutes for approval

Review of the current working group reports

In July 1999 the DNSO Names Council set up:

Working Group B -- Famous Trade-Marks
Working Group C -- New gTLDs

For the last nine months these two working groups have been discussing various aspects of their assigned topics.

On 21 March 2000, two reports were submitted to the Names Council, and published on the DNSO website:

http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20000321.NCwgb-report.html Working Group B status report to the Names Council, by Michael Palage
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20000321.NCwgc-report.html Working Group C consensus report to the Names Council, by Jonathan Weinberg

On 17 April 2000, some additional documents has been submitted to the Names Council, and published on the DNSO website:

http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20000417.NCwgc-addendum.html Addendum to WG-C consensus report to the Names Council, by Jonathan Weinberg
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20000417.NCwgb-report.html Working Group B report to the Names Council, by Michael Palage, points of agreement and dissension, with 8 annexes

The DNSO Names Council invited the Internet community to comment on these reports and the issues raised by them.

The full archives of the WG-C are on line at:

http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-c/Arc01/maillist.html (since November 23rd, 1999)
http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-c/Arc00/maillist.html (July 12th to November 23rd, 1999)

Public comments to Working Group C

http://www.dnso.org/dnso/dnsocomments/comments-gtlds/Arc01/maillist.html (since 4 April 2000)
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/dnsocomments/comments-gtlds/Archives/maillist.html (July 1999 to 4 April 2000)

The full archives of the WG-B are on line at:

http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-b/Archives/maillist.html

Public comments to Working Group B

http://www.dnso.org/dnso/dnsocomments/comments-wipo/Arc01/maillist.html (since 4 April 2000)
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/dnsocomments/comments-wipo/Archives/maillist.html (July 1999 to 4 April 2000)

Independent Review Nominating Committee

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc03/msg00502.html, request to the NC for selection of 2 individuals to the Independent Review Nominating Committee by Andrew McLaughlin

Yokohama schedule update

Dates for NC teleconferences until Yokohama

(one in May, one in June)