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GNSO Council Meeting #2 of 2022 held on 17 Feb 2022

Full Agenda  |  Motions  

• Item 1: Administrative Matters
• Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List
• Item 3: Consent Agenda
• Item 4: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Update on the Council Committee for Overseeing and Implementing Continuous Improvement (CCOICI) Pilot 
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Update on GNSO Council Implementation of Workstream 2 (WS2)
• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - ICANN73 Planning
• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Next Steps for Strategic Planning Session Action Items
• Item 8: ANY OTHER BUSINESS

For notes on highlighted items click on MATTERS OF INTEREST tab above

Matters of interest to ALAC/At-Large

• Item 1: Administrative Matters
  • Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on 16 December 2021 were posted on 03 January 2022.
  • Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on 20 January 2022 were posted on 03 February 2022.
• Item 4: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Update on the Council Committee for Overseeing and Implementing Continuous Improvement (CCOICI) Pilot 
  • Council will receive an update on the CCOICI and consider any potential next steps Slide deck
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Update on GNSO Council Implementation of Workstream 2 (WS2)
  • Council will receive and discuss an update on the GNSO Council’s Implementation of WS2 by ICANN org staff Slide deck
• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - ICANN73 Planning
  • With ICANN73 approaching, the GNSO Council will discuss its upcoming meetings, which includes a public Council meeting, a wrap-up meeting, and several bilateral meetings. The Council will first receive a brief update from GNSO Support staff, then proceed to prepare for its discussions with the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), the ICANN Board, and the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC).
    • GAC - Anticipated topics are likely to include the Operational Design Phase (ODP) for the System for Systemized Access/Disclosure (SSAD, DNS abuse, and the ODP for New gTLD Subsequent Procedures (SubPro).
      
    • ICANN Board - The GNSO Council will have suggested topic(s) by 17 February, The Board has suggested the following topics:
      • What are your key priorities for ICANN work in 2022, how do these priorities help achieve ICANN’s common objectives as expressed in the FY 2021-2025 Strategic Plan, and how do you see Community, Board and org moving forward together on a way to achieve these?
      • If any, what suggestions would you have to enhance ICANN’s effectiveness and efficiency with regards to the process of implementation after adoption of a PDP or Review recommendations?
    • ALAC - Anticipated topics are the ODP on the SSAD, ODP on SubPro, DNS abuse, and modifying consensus policy. Full list of topics submitted by ALAC
• Item 8: ANY OTHER BUSINESS
  • 8.1 – EPDP Phase 2 small team update
  • 8.2 – DNS abuse small team update
  • 8.3 – SubPro ODP Update - 14 Feb update. (SubPro ODP Timeline) 
  • 8.4 - GNSO Chair 2022 Election Timeline
  • 8.5 - GNSO council Representative WS2 Community Coordination Group - Olga Cavalli

Records of 17 Feb 2022 Meeting

• Audio Recording
• Zoom Recording (includes chat and visual and rough transcript. To access the rough transcript, select the Audio Transcript tab)
• Zoom Chat
• Transcript
• Resolutions 
• Minutes

Special Summary Report of 17 Feb 2022 Meeting to ALT=-PLUS

For brevity, I will just highlight a few things here. You can glean a wider perspective from GNSO Council Feb 2022 Matters of Interest and the meeting records from GNSO Council Feb 2022 Meeting Records

ALAC-GNSO Counciil Bilateral at ICANN73

• The final list and text that were submitted for consideration by Council are found here, namely:
• (1) SSAD ODA; 
• (2) SubPro ODP; 
• (3) DNS Abuse Mitigation; and 
• (4) GNSO Priorities - Work Stream 2, impact of GDS Paper on Modifying gTLD Consensus Policies
• While Council Members did not specifically react to our submission, Council Chair noted that there is significant overlap between the issues raised by the ALAC and the GAC - i.e. SSAD ODA, DNS Abuse next steps, and SubPro ODP, and invited councilors to provide comments post meeting for the separate Prep calls with the ALAC, GAC (and the Board), respectively.

(1) SSAD ODA 

• GNSO Council small team has had 2 calls, with limited progress to report (Council small team lead is Sebastien Ducos)
• So far have focused on the remit of the small team - answering Board's letter to Council vs. in-depth analysis of the SSAD ODA vs. possible outcomes
• Small team resolved to come up with a list of clarifying questions for ICANN org by next week

(2) SubPro ODP

• Latest update by GNSO Liaison Jeff Neuman is available: 14 Feb update. (SubPro ODP Timeline) 
• To note especially is ICANN SubPro ODP Team's questions regarding SubPro recommendations on a dedicated IRT for Applicant Support 
• Context: Apart from the more general IRT for SubPro following (any) Board approval of the SubPro Outputs (which in turn is now only expected after the SubPro ODP is concluded), SubPro PDP WG had recommended for a dedicated IRT for Applicant Support with requisite skill sets relating to program grant-type work 
• While ICANN SubPro ODP Team doesn't have an issue with such a dedicated IRT, it appears that such a dedicated IRT is being tasked with non-regular implementation work which likely involves or encroaches into policy-making, so, in effect empowering this dedicated IRT with policy-development functions normally held exclusively by GNSO
• Jeff suggests that if Council believes there is policy development is involved then it may be useful for Council to initiate work by community in this area specifically without waiting for Board's decision on the SubPro Output as a whole and overcoming the delay of starting work which needs to happen anyway  
• It is for Council to determine whether it makes sense to convene a special community group to include GAC and ALAC (but not a PDP) to do the required work
• There will be a SubPro ODP Team update during ICANN73 to present updated assumptions based on work done so far

(3) DNS Abuse Next Steps

• GNSO Council small team had initial call last week (Council small team co-leads are Mark Datysgeld and Paul McGrady)
• Small team resolved to recommend outreach by Council to groups most interested in topic i.e. ALAC, GAC, SSAC, DNS Abuse Institute to ask for help in defining what they think are the problems that need to be solved, in particular to identify issues which could be solved by policy development, and to bring those back to Council

So, ALAC can expect to receive a request/letter from Council on this in due course and we might want to set up our own ALAC/CPWG small team to develop a response

(4) GNSO Priorities

• Just to note that councilors have been asked to consider a staff-generated approach for GNSO Council Implementation of Workstream 2 (WS2)