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The proposed upcoming dates for the GNSO Council Meetings in 2020 are as follows. (dates removed as they are completed and detailed in the section below)
23 September 1900 UT
27 October 1900 UTC
18 November 1900 UTC
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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 ALT+ and when needed for advice or action. These reports will constitute part of the ALAC meeting records. resolutions of the Council (where relevant) and Recordings of meetings will be displayed where possible in advance of the formal Minutes being uploaded for ease of referenecereference...
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GNSO Council Meeting Agenda's and Records for 2021 will be listed below when available:
Please find below the audio recording, zoom recording (audio, visual, rough transcript) and zoom chat of the GNSO Council meeting held on Thursday, 23 September 2021 at 19:00 UTC.
Zoom Recording (includes chat and visual and rough transcript. To access the rough transcript, select the Audio Transcript tab): https://icann.zoom.us/rec/share/uHQW5GoIWsnnCcRE80IPW3Y8l_JNGibeiUFLvP6_yd_M8OpCOpWRSucieToBhMTw.IS9JXxE9v6onlWPC?startTime=1632423686000
Full MInutes will be added here when released.
GNSO Council Agenda 23 September 2021
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/D4JLCg
This agenda was established according to the GNSO Operating Procedures [gnso.icann.org] v3.5, updated on 24 October 2019
For convenience:
- An excerpt of the ICANN Bylaws defining the voting thresholds is provided in Appendix
- 1 at the end of this agenda.
- An excerpt from the Council Operating Procedures defining the absentee voting procedures
- is provided in Appendix 2 at the end of this agenda.
GNSO Council meeting held 19:00 UTC
Coordinated Universal Time: 19:00 UTC: https://tinyurl.com/jw684set [tinyurl.com]
12:00 Los Angeles; 15:00 Washington DC; 20:00 London; 21:00 Paris; 22:00 Moscow; (Friday) 05:00 Melbourne
GNSO Council Meeting Remote Participation: https://icann.zoom.us/j/99190199531?pwd=UG0vRTYrS2VyK1hZNUtCWjRXYlo1QT09 [icann.zoom.us]
Councilors should notify the GNSO Secretariat in advance if they will not be able to attend and/or need a dial out call.
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Item 1: Administrative Matters (10 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:
Minutes [gnso.icann.org] of the GNSO Council meeting on 22 July 2021 were posted on 06 August 2021.
Minutes [gnso.icann.org] of the GNSO Council meeting on 19 August 2021 were posted on 04 September 2021.
Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List (10 minutes)
2.1 - Review focus areas and provide updates on specific key themes / topics, to include review of Projects List [gnso.icann.org]and Action Item List.
Item 3: Consent Agenda (10 minutes)
3.1 - Approval of the Chair for the Accuracy Scoping Team - Michael Palage (SOI)
3.2 - Approval of the updated role description [gnso.icann.org] for the GNSO liaison to the GAC
3.3 - Approval of the 2021 Customer Standing Committee (CSC) Slate - In accordance
with Section 17.2 (d) of the ICANN Bylaw and per the CSC Charter, the full membership of the CSC must be approved by the GNSO Council. The Council approves the full slate of members and liaisons:
Members:
Frederico Neves, member re-appointed
Appointing Organization: ccNSO
Term: 2021 – 2023
Brett Carr (Vice-Chair) member
Appointing Organization: ccNSO
Expected Term: 2020 - 2022
Dmitry Burkov, member re-appointed
Appointing Organization: RySG
Term: 2021 - 2023
Gaurav Vedi, member
Appointing Organization: RySG
Expected Term: 2020 - 2022
Liaisons:
Holly Raiche, liaison re-appointed
Appointing Organization: ALAC
Term: 2021 - 2023
Milton Mueller, liaison re-appointed
Appointing Organization: GNSO (Non-Registry)
Term: 2021 – 2023
Lars-Johan Liman, (Chair)
Appointing Organization: RSSAC
Expected Term: 2020 – 2022
Laxmi Prasad Yadav
Appointing Organization: GAC
Expected Term: 2020 - 2022
Amy Creamer
Appointing Organization: PTI
Term: no term limit
SSAC has declined to appoint a liaison as of the 01 October 2021 slate.
Item 4: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - EPDP Phase 2A Final Report (35 minutes)
On 21 October 2020, the GNSO Council approved the initiation [gnso.icann.org]of EPDP Phase 2A, to examine the topics of legal/natural and feasibility of unique contacts. In doing so, the Council required that the GNSO Council Liaison to the EPDP report back to the GNSO Council on the status of deliberations. Accordingly, status updates were regularly provided to the GNSO Council over the course of the EPDP Phase 2A’s deliberations. The EPDP Team published its Initial Report for public comment on 3 June 2021, which included preliminary recommendations as well as questions for community input. The EPDP Team delivered its Phase 2A Final Report to the GNSO Council on 3 September 2021, which was updated on 13 September 2021 with the minority statements incorporated into the Final Report
The GNSO Council will receive a presentation on the Final Report, to better prepare the Council for a vote during the October meeting. While this agenda item is for discussion only, a draft motion was circulated to the GNSO Council on 13 September 2021 for discussion purposes. The Council will also consider the proposal contained in the Final Report, which recommends that the Council follow current and future legislative developments which may require further policy work.
Here, the GNSO Council will receive a presentation, as well as discuss the Final Report and the draft motion.
4.1 – Introduction of topic (Philippe Fouquart, GNSO Council liaison to EPDP Phase 2A)
4.2 – Presentation on the Final Report
4.3 – Council discussion
4.4 – Next steps
Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - GDS Update on the Framework for the Policy Status Report Framework on the UDRP (30 minutes)
On 21 January 2021, the GNSO Council approved the recommendations from the Phase 1 Final Report of the GNSO Policy Development Process (PDP) on the Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) in All gTLDs, covering RPMs applicable to gTLDs launched under the 2012 New gTLD Program. The Council has discussed the need to review the RPMs charter in advance of launching Phase 2 of the PDP, which is focused on the UDRP.
Council leadership had considered the best path forward to initiating this work and shared their thoughts [gnso.icann.org] for advancing this effort on 13 July 2021, which considers a Policy Status Report (PSR) as a possible next step. The Council discussed the approach during its July meeting and agreed that ICANN org should consider how to conduct the PSR and return to the Council to present their proposed framework for the PSR, in advance of initiating the actual work. ICANN org shared a presentation on 13 September 2021.
Here, the Council will receive a presentation and consider whether it agrees with the proposed approach for the PSR.
5.1 – Introduction of topic (Council leadership)
5.2 – Presentation (Antonietta Mangiocotti - ICANN org)
5.3 – Council discussion
5.4 – Next steps
Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - CCWG-Accountability WS2 Implementation - Next Steps for the GNSO Council (15 Minutes)
On 7 November 2019, the ICANN Board adopted [features.icann.org] all of the consensus recommendations contained within the WS2 Final Report. As part of the resolved clauses, ICANN Org was directed to begin implementation of those recommendations, in accordance with the WS2 Implementation Assessment Report.
In 2020, the GNSO Council sought to get ahead of impending work it will eventually be asked to undertake for the implementation of WS2. In an effort to better understand the specific items that it will be tasked to complete, the Council performed an analysis (circulated on 20 January 2021) of the recommendations and considered which might result in tasks for the Council to complete.
Since then, ICANN org has devoted additional staff resources to help assist the community to understand which recommendations may result in work for each of the respective Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees, and of particular interest to the GNSO, each of the Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies (which for the most part, are entirely separate from work the GNSO Council will undertake).
Here, the Council will receive an update from ICANN org on the latest efforts related to the WS2 implementation.
6.1 – Update (Mary Wong - ICANN org)
6.2 – Council discussion
6.3 – Next steps
Item 7: ANY OTHER BUSINESS (10 minutes)
7.1 - SSAD Operational Design Phase
7.2 - Criteria for evaluating candidates for the SubPro ODP role, and want to provide some additional context for this item.
This EOI process has now closed, and the SSC will soon begin its selection process. The EOI lists the desired skills and experience and asks candidates to describe their own qualifications with respect to each.
The SSC is expected to evaluate the candidates according to the criteria in the EOI and may also take into account other relevant information available about the candidates in making its decision.
There is a high-qualified field of candidates for this role (see EOIs here). Council leadership wants to confirm whether there is any additional guidance that Council wants to provide to the SSC in making its recommendation, in particular:
- The EOI form includes a question about whether candidates have any type of material interest in the New gTLD Program and/or the outcomes of the SubPro ODP. Typically, within the GNSO community members are expected to disclose interests as a transparency measure (in particular, through the SOI), but disclosed interests do not disqualify individuals from serving in community volunteer roles. Extending this principle to the current process, the SSC would not consider any interests that candidates may have declared as a disqualifying or a negative factor in making their recommendation. Council leadership would like to confirm that this is also the understanding of the Council.
- All of the candidates for this EOI have other volunteer commitments/roles within the ICANN community. Are there any specific commitments/volunteer roles that the Council considers incompatible with serving in the ODP liaison role or problematic to the extent that it needs to be taken into account by the SSC in the selection process? If so, what guidance needs to be provided to the SSC?
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Resolutions and recordings from the Meeting of August 19 2021. Full Minutes uploaded below;
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