ICANN/DNSO

30 August 2001

From Danny Younger, GA Chair

1. The DNSO General Assembly meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay, will be held on Saturday, 8 September 2001, 08:00 - 12:00, [@ Ballroom].

   [ Montevideo is UTC-3: 4:30 LA, 7:30 New York, 11:30 UTC, 13:30 Paris, 20:30 Japan/Korea]
   [ For other places see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ ]

   Please visit http://www.icann.org/montevideo/ for details about all ICANN meetings (schedule, agendas, meeting rooms, hotels, visas, etc).

2. The GA will be webcast by Berkman Center, thanks to Ben Edelman edelman@law.harvard.edu

   Access will be via http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/montevideo/ as usual. You will find on Berkman site all information about technical requirements.

   In summary a 28.8 Kbps connection is required for access to live and archived streaming media feeds (56K or faster preferred). The necessary software is the RealPlayer version 5.0 or later (version G2 or later preferred) or the Microsoft Windows Media Player (version 6.4 or later).

1. Administration:
   
   08:00 - 08:05 Report from the Chair - Danny Younger
   08:05 - 08:10 Report from the Secretariat - Elisabeth Porteneuve

2. Issues:
   
   08:10 - 08:15 VeriSign: Equitable Allocation of SRS Resources
   08:15 - 08:20 VeriSign: Internationalized Domains Update
   08:20 - 08:35 Registrars: Transfers and Expiring Domains
   08:35 - 08:45 ccTLDs: Formation of ccSO
   08:45 - 08:50 Neulevel: Status of .biz roll-out
   08:50 - 09:00 Afilias: Report on .info Sunrise Registrations
   09:00 - 09:15 ALSC Report
   09:15 - 09:25 NAIS Report
   09:25 - 09:30 Interim Coordinating Committee Comments

3. Public Forum:
   
   09:30 - 10:00 Open Microphone

4. Intermission:
   
   10:00 - 10:10 intermission

5. Reports:
   
   10:10 - 10:15 Simultaneous Translation Task Force - Pilar Luque
   10:15 - 10:20 New TLD Evaluation Task Force - Y.J.Park
   10:20 - 10:25 UDRP Task Force - Milton Mueller
   10:25 - 10:30 WHOIS Committee
   10:30 - 10:35 Review Task Force - Roberto Gaetano
   10:35 - 10:40 .Org Task Force - Milton Mueller
   10:40 - 10:50 Cyberspace Association - Joop Teernstra
   10:50 - 11:00 Global Internet Policy Initiative - Alan Davidson

6. Session with the DNSO Board Candidates:
   
   11:00 - 11:20 Candidates' Statements
   11:20 - 12:00 Open Microphone: Questions for the Candidates

7. 12:00 End of General Assembly plenary session