ICANN Board & GNSO Calls Today

On the agenda for today's ICANN Board Call:

Consideration of .KZ Redelegation Request (Kazakhstan)
Consideration of .IQ Redelegation Request (Iraq)

In addition, the GNSO Council has a telephone conference today. On the agenda:

Item 1: Approval of minutes
GNSO Council meeting 12 July 2005

Item 2: Staff report
- legal text for WHOIS recommendation
- policy status of new gTLDS (review Board and GNSO Council decisions)
- summary of public comments received during the GNSO Public Forum

Item 3: Actions arising from ICANN Board meeting
- domain name hijacking report
- GNSO review

Item 4: Actions arising from IDN workshop
- Cary Karp to request any action required from the GNSO Council

Item 5: Actions arising from GNSO Public Forum in Luxembourg

Item 6: Creation of working group to review implementation of current
WHOIS policies related to Accuracy (e.g WHOIS data reminder policy, and
WHOIS problem reporting system)
- Niklas Lagergren proposed as chair
(note this would be a similar process to that used to review the
implementation/compliance with the transfers policy)

Item 7: Consideration of revised consensus recommendation with respect
to improving notification and consent for the use of contact data in the
Whois system
- updated text due from Bruce Tonkin in response to comments received so
far
- legal text required from ICANN legal team

Item 8: Consideration of final report on process for use by ICANN in
considering requests for consent and related contractual amendments to
allow changes in the architecture operation of a gTLD registry.
- for decision

Item 9: Any other business