1. Date, time, phone number.

   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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     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 (next day)
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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

   Dial in number: + 1 610-769-9240 (U.S. number)
   
   Passcode: Names Council
   
   Conference Leader: Philip Sheppard

   Philip Sheppard will be chairing the NC teleconference.

   Scheduled time for meeting - 120 mins.

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.html

   ICANN Staff Draft: Toward a Statement of the ICANN Mission
   http://www.icann.org/general/toward-mission-statement-07mar02.htm

    

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