[announce] NC teleconference Agenda April 18, 2002

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

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The Names Council teleconference will be held on 18 April 2002 at the
following time:

       (6:00 LA, 9:00 New York, 15:00 Paris, 22:00 Japan/Korea, 23:00
Melbourne)
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         Local time between April and October, Summer in the Northern
Hemisphere
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         Reference (Coordinated Universal Time)     UTC         13:00
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         The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of October (with some
exceptions)
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         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

2.Agenda and related documents

This is the third teleconference after Accra dedicated to ICANN Reform

Proposed NC Agenda April 18:

Normal business

1. e-mail rules - vote to adopt - without discussion
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc10/msg00063.html

Evolution

2. Approval of draft conclusions to date

3. Board composition
       - inclusion of chairs of advisory bodies
       - change of size of board/trustees
       - role of nominating committee.
       - increase/change in ability of new Board to make policy.

4. At-large
       - inclusion of government nominees in Board as surrogate for at-large
       - general issue

5. Transparency
       - idea of ombudsman
       - idea of public participation manager
       - alternatives

6. AOB

Minutes from previous teleconferences on ICANN reform
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020404.NCteleconf-minutes.html
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020322.NCteleconf-minutes.html

Terms of reference for DNSO response to the case for reform.
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2002.NC-tor-DNSO-response-ICANN-reform.v3.htm
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ICANN Staff Draft: Toward a Statement of the ICANN Mission
http://www.icann.org/general/toward-mission-statement-07mar02.htm

Note:

The next teleconference will be as scheduled 2 May at 15.00 Paris time.
See http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2002.NC-calendar.html

DNSO Secretariat