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The proposed upcoming dates for the GNSO Council Meetings in 2019 are as follows. (dates removed as they are completed )and detailed in section below)
- March 4th: 21:00 UTC Special Purpose Meeting for EPDP Final Report Vote and Phase 2 Discussion
- February 14th, 2100 UTC - Special Purpose for EPDP issues (if any) discussion
- February 21st: 12:00 UTC
- March 13th (ICANN64 Kobe)
- April 18th: 21:00 UTC
- May 16th: 12:00 UTC
- June 26th (ICANN65 Marrakech)
- July 18th: 21:00 UTC
- August 22nd: 12:00 UTC
- September 19th: 21:00 UTC
- October 24th: 12:00 UTC
- November 6th (ICANN66 Montreal)
- December 19th: 21:00 UTC
Formal Minutes for the Council meetings per the GNSO
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Operating Procedures can be quickly found below:
Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on the 20 December 2018 were posted on the 7 January 2019
Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on the 24 January 2019 were posted on the 7 February 2019
Special attention will be drawn verbally or by email, to any issues relating to the GNSO or the Liaison role at ALAC Meetings and those of the ALAC ATL+ where needed for advice or action. These reports will constitute part of the ALAC meetings records.
GNSO Council Meetings for 2019
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March 4th 2019 - Special Purpose Meeting for EPDP issue discussion - 2100 UTC - Notes or Action Items will be shown in italics until Draft/Final Minutes posted.
Final GNSO Council Agenda TBC
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February 21st 2019 - Special Purpose Meeting for EPDP issue discussion - 1200 UTC - Notes or Action Items shown in italics until Draft/Final Minutes posted.
Final GNSO Council Agenda
Item 1: Administrative Matters (5 mins)
1.1 - Roll Call
1.2 - Updates to Statements of Interest
1.3 - Review / Amend Agenda
1.4 - Note the status of minutes for the previous Council meetings per the GNSO Operating Procedures:
Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List (15 minutes)
2.1 - Review focus areas and provide updates on specific key themes / topics, to include review of Projects List and Action Item List
Item 3: Consent Agenda (0 minutes)
- None
Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - Adoption of the Final Report on Expedited PDP on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data (40 minutes) -
Vote deferred until the 4 March 2019 Special GNSO Council Meeting
Action items:
Councilors to engage with and consult with their Stakeholder Group / Constituency and ensure their respective communities understand current status and have provided instructions on how to vote for the EPDP Team Final Report on 4 March (where applicable).
Rafik Dammak to inform the EPDP Team of decision to defer the vote and explain next steps.
On 11 May 2018, ICANN released the Temporary Specification on gTLD Registration Data, which served as the main agenda topic for the subsequent Board Workshop in Vancouver. This proposed Temporary Specification provides an interim solution until the community completes a policy development process on the temporary specification which is expected to complete within a one year period.
On 17 May 2017, the ICANN Board approved the proposed Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data, which establishes temporary requirements for how ICANN and its Contracted Parties will comply with both ICANN contractual requirements and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
On 12 June 2018, the Council held an Extraordinary Council Meeting to discuss next steps on addressing the Temporary Specification. There, the Council agreed in principle that an EPDP was the right way to address the issue and took steps to draft the charter and prepare for EPDP initiation. On 19 July 2018, the Council voted to initiate an EPDP on the Temporary Specification, as well as to adopt the EPDP’s charter.
The EPDP Team held its first meeting on 1 August 2018 and on 21 November 2018, the EPDP published its Initial Report for public comment. After taking into account public comment received, the EPDP Team has worked to deliver its Final Report to the GNSO Council for its consideration. Due to the unique circumstances concerning the deadline for implementation, and in order to minimize the transition period, the EPDP Leadership and Team informally recommends that discussion around implementation deliverables be initiated immediately. This preliminary work will inform the deliberations of the formal Implementation Recommendation Team upon Board approval of the Policy Recommendations.
Here, the Council will vote to adopt the Final Report of the EPDP Team.
4.1 - Presentation of motion (Rafik Dammak)
4.2 - Council discussion
4.3 - Council vote (voting threshold: Supermajority)
Taking this action is within the GNSO’s remit as outlined in ICANN’s Bylaws as the GNSO ‘shall be responsible for developing and recommending to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities of the GNSO as set forth in these Bylaws’ (Art.11.1). Furthermore, this action complies with the requirements set out in Annex A: GNSO Policy Development Process of the ICANN Bylaws.
Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Expedited PDP on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data - Phase 2 Work (15 minutes)
This Item as it was linked to Item 4 above is also deferred until the 4 March 2019 Special GNSO Council Meeting
As noted in the charter for the Expedited PDP on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data, work on a System for Standardized Access to Non-Public Registration Data can only commence after the work on a series of gating questions are complete. With the EPDP Team’s delivery of its Final Report to the GNSO Council, the work on the gating questions can be considered to be completed and the work on the System for Standardized Access to Non-Public Registration Data, or otherwise known as phase 2 of the EPDP, should be allowed to commence. However, per the EPDP Team Charter, beginning that work is dependent upon non-objection of the GNSO Council (which is captured and granted in the resolution language for item 4 of this agenda). As part of the resolved clause, “...The Council does request that the EPDP Team, as a first step, develops its work plan for phase 2 and, furthermore, identifies whether the GNSO Council should consider any updates to the EPDP Team Charter to facilitate the EPDP Team’s work.”
The Council recognizes that suggestions to update the structure of the EPDP Team and any changes to the Charter are best delivered by the EPDP Team. However, the Council believes that it is constructive to have a preliminary discussion on the subject to see if there are any areas that Councilors believe will require revision for phase 2.
Here, the Council will have preliminary discussions on possible changes needed for phase 2 of the EPDP.
5.1 – Introduction of topic(Council leadership)
5.2 – Council discussion
5.3 – Next steps
Item 6: COUNCIL UPDATE – Status of the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG (20 minutes)
On 17 December 2015, the GNSO Council resolved to initiate the PDP on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures, which was tasked to consider and analyze issues discussed in the Final Issue Report on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures and Applicant Guidebook to determine whether changes or adjustments to the existing policy recommendations are needed. TheCharter was subsequently adopted on 12 January 2016 and the WG began meeting in February of that year.
Given the broad scope of the topics captured in the WG’s Charter, the WG established four sub teams to help streamline its work. The WG published an Initial Report on those subjects in July of 2018. The WG also considered several topics that it believed did not undergo adequate deliberations and in October of 2018 published a Supplemental Initial Report on those additional subjects.
In addition, the WG convened Work Track 5, which is dedicated to the singular topic of geographic names at the top-level. WT5 published its Supplemental Initial Report in December of 2018. The WG is in the midst of considering the extensive public comment received to its three reports and will begin substantive discussions shortly. The WG hopes to be able to conclude all aspects of its work and deliver a single Final Report to the GNSO Council.
Here, the Council will receive a detailed update from the WG’s Co-Chairs, Jeff Neuman and Cheryl Langdon-Orr.
6.1 – Presentation of topic (WGCo-Chairs, Jeff Neuman and Cheryl Langdon-Orr)
6.2 – Council discussion
6.3 – Next steps
Item 7: ANY OTHER BUSINESS (15 minutes)
7.1 - ICANN64 Planning
7.2 - Lessons learned from the Council public comment formulation for the ICANN Draft FY20 Operating Plan and Budget and Five-Year Operating Plan Update and the ICANN Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2021-2025
7.3 - Public Comment: First Consultation on a 2-Year Planning Process
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February 14th 2019 - Special Purpose Meeting for EPDP issue discussion - 2100 UTC
Final GNSO Council Agenda DRAFT Minutes of the GNSO Council Meeting 14 February 2019
Coordinated Universal Time: 21:00 UTC: https://tinyurl.com/yaxwuj6w
13:00 Los Angeles; 16:00 Washington; 21:00 London; (Friday) 02:00 Islamabad; 06:00 Tokyo; 08:00 Melbourne
List of attendees:
Nominating Committee Appointee (NCA): – Non-Voting – Erika Mann (apologies sent)
Contracted Parties House
Registrars Stakeholder Group: Pam Little, Michele Neylon, Darcy Southwell
Registries Stakeholder Group: Maxim Alzoba, Keith Drazek, Rubens Kühl
Nominating Committee Appointee (NCA): Carlos Raul Gutierrez (on audio only)
Non-Contracted Parties House
Commercial Stakeholder Group (CSG): Marie Pattullo, Scott McCormick, Philippe Fouquart, Osvaldo Novoa , Paul McGrady, Flip Petillion
Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG): Martin Silva Valent, Elsa Saade, Tatiana Tropina, Rafik Dammak, Ayden Férdeline (apology, proxy to Martin Silva Valent), Arsène Tungali
Nominating Committee Appointee (NCA): Syed Ismail Shah (absent)
GNSO Council Liaisons/Observers:
Cheryl Langdon-Orr– ALAC Liaison
Julf (Johan) Helsingius– GNSO liaison to the GAC
Adebiyi Oladipo – ccNSO observer
Special guests:
Kurt Pritz and Heather Forrest
ICANN Staff
David Olive -Senior Vice President, Policy Development Support and Managing Manager
Marika Konings – Vice President, Policy Development Support – GNSO (apology)
Mary Wong – Vice President, Strategic Community Operations, Planning and Engagement
Julie Hedlund – Policy Director
Steve Chan – Policy Director
Berry Cobb – Policy Consultant
Emily Barabas – Policy Manager (apology)
Ariel Liang – Policy Support Specialist
Caitlin Tubergen – Policy Senior Manager
Sara Caplis – Technical Support
Nathalie Peregrine – Manager, Operations Support
Terri Agnew - Operations Support - GNSO Lead Administrator
Item 1. Administrative Matters
1.1 - Roll Call
1.2 - Updates to Statements of Interest
Cheryl Langdon-Orr notified the GNSO Council that she will be a co-chair to the third Accountability and Transparency review (ATRT3).
1.3 - Review / Amend Agenda
Agenda was approved without objection.
1.4 - Note the status of minutes for the previous Council meetings per the GNSO Operating Procedures:
Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on the 20 December 2018 were posted on the 7 January 2019
Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on the 24 January 2019 were posted on the 7 February 2019
1.5 - Welcome to new ISPCP councilor
Keith Drazek welcomed Osvaldo Novoa (SOI) to the GNSO Council as ISPCP councilor. Tony Harris resigned from his position as previous ISPCP councilor.
Item 2. Consent Agenda (none)
Item 3: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Final Report of the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on the ICANN Board Temporary Specification on gTLD Registration Data
Keith Drazek reminded councilors that this was an opportunity to discuss short term next steps with the current EPDP Leadership. There is also a call scheduled for the 21 February 2019 for councilors to consider and possibly vote on the EPDP Final Report. If a deferral is to take place on the 21 February 2019 there will be a second opportunity to vote during a special Council meeting on the 4th March 2019. It will be key for the Final Report to be approved prior to ICANN64 in Kobe. Once the GNSO Council approves the Final Report there will be a 40 day Public Comment period, followed by Board consideration and vote which must take place before the 25th May 2019 before the Temporary Specification expires.
Kurt Pritz, chair of the EPDP, encouraged councilors to review the current draft Final Report of the EPDP team as the timeline is extremely tight. He noted that every group within the EPDP team made compromises necessary to consensus in an extraordinary multistakeholder effort. (discussion snipped)
Item 4: COUNCIL DISCUSSION – IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms
Keith Drazek reminded councilors that they received the Final Report of the IGO INGO Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms (CRP) in 2018. Due to the complexity of the matter, and a low membership, the recommendations in the Final Report are being challenged. Keith Drazek encouraged councilors to pay close attention to the issues raised as the GNSO Council is at crossroads depending on the decision it decides upon. GNSO Council leadership put forward proposals on how to deal with the five recommendations:
Approve the four recommendations which do not impact consensus policy and forward the fifth (impacting consensus policy) to the Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPM) Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group (WG)
Approve the four recommendations and maybe create another group to focus on the 5th recommendation or the larger issues.
Approve the Final Report and forward it to the Board, despite recommendations being in conflict with Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) advice
Reject all recommendations.
Heather Forrest, invited to speak to the IGO INGO Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms topic. (discussion snipped)
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January 2019
Final GNSO Council Agenda 24 January 2019. Coordinated Universal Time: 22:00 UTC: https://tinyurl.com/ybxpm8s3
Please note that all documents referenced in the agenda have been gathered on a Wiki page for convenience and easier access:https:// Agenda 24 January 2019. Coordinated Universal Time: 22:00 UTC: https://tinyurl.com/ybxpm8s3
Please note that all documents referenced in the agenda have been gathered on a Wiki page for convenience and easier access:https://community.icann.org/x/JIoWBg
14:00 Los Angeles; 17:00 Washington; 22:00 London; (Friday) 03:00 Islamabad; 07:00 Tokyo; 09:00 Melbourne
GNSO Council Meeting Audio Cast. You can listen in browserin the browser: http://stream.icann.org:8000/stream01
Listen in application such in an application such as iTunes: http://stream.icann.org:8000/stream01.m3u
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