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GNSO Council Meeting Agenda's and Records for 2020 will be listed  below when available:

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GNSO Council Agenda 20 August 2020 at 2100 UTC

Minutes have not yet been released  please find resolutions from the GNSO Council at the meeting on Thursday 20 August 2020 which will be posted shortly on the GNSO resolutions page.

Consent Agenda

• 3.1 - Action Decision Radar decision - Confirm that Council supports initiation of the IDN Operational Track 1, as recommended by the IDN Scoping Team, that shall focus on the IDN Implementation Guidelines 4.0, which the Council anticipates will be worked on primarily between ICANN org and Contracted Parties, but should allow observers. 
• 3.2 - Action Decision Radar decision - Agree on next steps (i.e., for the EPDP-Phase 1 IRT to prepare draft revisions to the affected policies and publish for public comment) for terminology updates as described in the “EPDP Phase 1 Recommendation 27: Registration Data Policy Impacts report” and possible actions as described in the “Possible next steps EPDP P1 Wave 1 Rec 27”. In the course of making updates to impacted consensus policies, the EPDP-Phase 1 IRT is instructed to promptly advise the GNSO Council if possible policy changes are required. 
• 3.3 - Approve request for extension of timeline for Issue Report on the Transfer Policy

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Action item:
● GNSO Secretariat to share the results of this motion passed by the GNSO Council with the
Chairs of the Auction Proceeds CCWG as soon as possible

Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Expedited PDP (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification Phase 2:
Status Update and Proposed Next Steps for Priority 2 Items
Rafik Dammak, Chair of the EPDP Phase 2 team, provided an update on work to date. After having shared a version of the Final Report with EPDP members, they were asked to input feedback in a Google doc in the shape of three categories of rating (cannot live with, would like to see change, non-substantive and minor). The category classification was then discussed during team calls. In the most recent timeline, the Final Report was to be presented today with the aim of making consensus level designations, but this
will take place tomorrow. The aim is still to deliver the Final Report by Friday 31 July 2020. He then updated councilors on the work of the GNSO Council small team efforts which has developed a draft based on the previous framework presented during the June Council meeting. This draft focuses on providing more details, setting objectives and next steps whilst ensuring efficient use of people’s time and resources and following GNSO processes and procedures. Oversight of the GNSO Council will be key, the approach to deal with the issues of legal vs natural and feasibility of unique contact will be to reconvene the EPDP team. Timing to be determined. For the topic of accuracy, the small team suggests starting with a scoping team, taking into account elements from recommendation 27 Wave 1. Council needs to decide when to initiate this scoping team. He also indicated there are open questions to be resolved. John McElwaine asked when the effort on data accuracy would begin. Keith Drazek responded that the framework document developed by the Council small team was the discussion starting point, but that discussions on priority and on timing needs to take place once the Final Report is submitted.

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Rafik Dammak added that the work being done is owned by Council as process manager it will take into account concerns, responding to them in keeping with the charter and the procedures and sending clear messages to all groups.

Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION – Program Management [tentative based on discussions from the Extraordinary Meeting] - Rec#27 Wave 1 report
Berry Cobb, Org, provided a quick update to councilors following the 16 July 2020 Extraordinary meeting focusing on how to handle the follow up work from Rec#27 Wave1 report. Meetings have been held with Global Domain Division (GDD) colleagues with an update to Council planned for August 2020 with an aim to circulate by the document and motion deadline (10 August 2020). A matrix of seven impacted policies is being developed, and is a four-column summary report including which policies are impacted, what effort, timing is involved to accomplish the work, does there need to be an interim attachment to the RDS policies in the meantime and low impact items with terminology updates only. This is also to ensure that the work is detached from the EPDP 1 IRT work efforts.

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