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GNSO Council Meeting #11 of 2022 held on 17 Nov 2022 

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• Meeting Details
• Meeting Record
• Special Summary Report

GNSO Council Meeting #11 of 2022 held on 17 Nov 2022

Full Agenda  |  Motions 

• TBD

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

Matters of interest to ALAC/At-Large

• TBD

Meeting Details; non-Council members are welcome to observe the meeting

GNSO Council meeting on Thursday, 17 November 2022 at 05:00 UTC

Records of 17 Nov 2022 Meeting

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

Special Summary Report of 17 Nov 2022 Meeting to ALT-PLUS

For brevity, I will just highlight a few things here. For some of the issues, you can glean a wider perspective from GNSO Council Nov 2022 Matters of Interest and the meeting records /or from GNSO Council Nov 2022 Meeting Records.

• TBD

GNSO Council Meeting #10 of 2022 held on 20 Oct 2022 

• Agenda
• Matters of Interest
• Meeting Details
• Meeting Record
• Special Summary Report

GNSO Council Meeting #10 of 2022 held on 20 Oct 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 - Whois Disclosure System Next Steps
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Registration Data Accuracy Scoping Team - Assignments #1 (Enforcement and Reporting) and #2 (Measurement of Accuracy) Write Up
• Item 6. COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Discussion of GAC’s request for additional members in Applicant Support GGP Working Group
• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - DNS Abuse Small Team Report 
• Item 8: COUNCIL UPDATE - Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
• Item 9: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - SPS planning
• Item 10: 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 25 August 2022 were posted on 07 September 2022.
  • Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on 21 September 2022 part 1 and part 2 were posted on 15 October 2022.
• Item 3: Consent Agenda

  • Approval of the updated standard term for the GNSO liaison to the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC).

  • Reappointment of Jeffrey Neuman to serve as the GNSO liaison to the GAC for a two-year term ending AGM 2024.

  • Confirmation of Greg DiBiase, GNSO Council Vice-Chair as the GNSO representative to the Empowered Community Administration.

  • Confirmation of Mike Silber to serve as the Chair of the GNSO Guidance Process (GGP) on Applicant Support.

• Item 4: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Whois Disclosure System Next Steps
  • The proposed design of the Whois Disclosure System was published prior to ICANN75 and ICANN org provided a presentation of the system design to the EPDP Phase 2 small team during ICANN75. Subsequently, the small team and Council held initial discussions amongst themselves, as well as with the Board during their joint session on Tuesday. The Council discussed during its meeting on Wednesday and the small team met informally on Thursday of ICANN75.
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Registration Data Accuracy Scoping Team - Assignments #1 (Enforcement and Reporting) and #2 (Measurement of Accuracy) Write Up
  • The RDA Scoping Team submitted a Project Change Request (PCR) to Council on 10 May 2022. The Scoping Team has since completed Assignment #1 (enforcement and reporting) and Assignment #2 (measurement of accuracy) and submitted its write up to the Council on 5 September 2022. In the write up, the group is suggesting moving forward with two proposals that would not require access to registration data, namely a registrar survey (recommendation #1) and a possible registrar audit (recommendation #2) that may help further inform the team’s work on assignment #3 (effectiveness) and #4 (impact & improvements), while it awaits the outcome of the outreach to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) by ICANN org in relation to proposals that would require access to registration data (recommendation #3).
  • As has been communicated previously, Michael Palage will be confirming his resignation as Chair of this group to the Council. The Council will need to consider the proper timing for identifying a new Chair for this effort.
  • Council will discuss how to proceed.
• Item 6. COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Discussion of GAC’s request for additional members in Applicant Support GGP Working Group

  • On 25 August 2022, the GNSO Council voted to initiate a GNSO Guidance Process (GGP) on Applicant Support. Shortly thereafter, GNSO support staff sent messages to the SO/AC/SG/Cs, inviting them to identify Members for the Working Group, following the Working Group composition described in the initiation request.

  • In the GAC’s ICANN75 Kuala Lumpur Communique, the GAC communicated that its desire for the Council to, “allow broader participation from interested GAC participants, as well as other members of the community, beyond the single member per Advisory Committee presently envisioned by the call for volunteers communicated to the GAC.” The GAC also sent correspondence to the GNSO Council, requesting that membership be expanded from a single member to two (2) members and two (2) alternates from the GAC.

  • Council has noted that it has intentionally kept the membership narrow in order to better ensure an efficient and effective outcome. In that regard, the Council has noted that beyond the Working Group membership, external subject matter expertise can be pursued.

  • Council will discuss the GAC’s request and seek to agree on the appropriate outcome.

• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - DNS Abuse Small Team Report 
  • At ICANN72, the GNSO Council agreed to establish a small team to consider and recommend next steps for the Council related to DNS abuse, if any. An assignment form was drafted and the team held its first meeting 9 February 2022. The team performed outreach to interested community groups (ALAC, GAC, SSAC, the DNS Abuse Institute, SG/Cs) to better understand what DNS abuse related issues need to be addressed specifically via gTLD policy development.

  • The small team carefully considered all input received and has reached agreement on a set of 4 recommendations, by thinking of DNS abuse as taking place in phases (e.g., malicious domain registration/domain being compromised, DNS abuse being reported, action being taken by a well-positioned party). These phases helped the small team to better understand which elements are best addressed via policy development versus another mechanism. To that end, the small team has concluded that improvements in DNS abuse mitigation can be sought via three buckets: through education / communication / outreach, through contractual negotiations, and/or policy development.

  • The small team delivered its report to Council on 10 October 2022. Council will receive a briefing on the report and consider next steps.

• Item 8: COUNCIL UPDATE - Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
  • The EPDP Team has been meeting weekly and making progress against its charter, but the complexity of the subject matter and the charter questions, as well as the implications on the New gTLD Program processes and other ICANN policies and procedures (and thus, the need to adequately understand all of these elements) has challenged agreed upon timelines in the work plan. The EPDP Team is anticipating submitting a Project Change Request (PCR) in November, but the Chair and the EPDP believes that it is important for the Council to understand the need for a project plan update, what is changing, and the implications of those changes, prior to being asked to make a decision on the PCR.
  • Council will be provided with an update on the EPDP on IDNs and an overview of the expected PCR.

Records of 20 Oct 2022 Meeting

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

Special Summary Report of 20 Oct 2022 Meeting to ALT-PLUS

For brevity, I will just highlight a few things here. For some of the issues, you can glean a wider perspective from GNSO Council Oct 2022 Matters of Interest and the meeting records /or from GNSO Council Oct 2022 Meeting Records.

1. Consent Agenda

• Approval of the updated standard term for the GNSO liaison to the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC).

• Reappointment of Jeffrey Neuman to serve as the GNSO liaison to the GAC for a two-year term ending AGM 2024.

• Confirmation of Greg DiBiase, GNSO Council Vice-Chair as the GNSO representative to the Empowered Community Administration.

• Confirmation of Mike Silber to serve as the Chair of the GNSO Guidance Process (GGP) on Applicant Support.

2. Whois Disclosure System Next Steps

• Council received an update on the EPDP Phase 2 small team's progress post its preliminary report, that it is considering 3 remaining questions:-
  1. Does the Whois Disclosure System align with the expectations as set out in the small team’s preliminary report,
  2. Will implementation of the Whois Disclosure System deliver the information to help inform Council-Board consultations on the cost-benefit of the SSAD recommendations,
  3. Does the small team recommend to the GNSO Council that it requests the ICANN Board to proceed with the implementation of the Whois Disclosure System.
• Council can expect recommendation(s) from the small team for Council's Nov 2022 meeting.

3. Registration Data Accuracy Scoping Team

• Council is supportive to pause next steps on the Registration Data Accuracy pending more information on the DPA between registries and registrars, but retain concerns that we should not lose sight of the need to complete the relevant work.
• Council also thought it prudent to proceed with identifying a new Chair for the Scoping Team in the mean time.

4. Applicant Support GNSO Guidance Process (GGP) Working Group

• Council weighed the GAC's request to allow broader participation from interested GAC participants beyond the single member per Advisory Committee per Council's resolution to initiate the GPP. 
• Councilors appeared in favour of GAC - and every other group - having an "alternate" in addition to their single member, if they so choose, provided that the "alternate" would not be counted in any consensus call.

5. Expedited Policy Development Process on Internationalized Domain Names

• Council receivednotice of a Project Change Request (PCR) to amend the EPDP's Project Plan. Essentially, a number of underlying factors have made it necessary for the project plan to be amended significantly but the leadership of the EPDP have made concerted effort to re-organise the EPDP's work in a conservative manner.
• The impact suggested in the pending PCR is to split the EPDP's work into 2 phases, which would result in 2 initial reports and 2 final reports (one each for TL and SL charter questions), and an extension of the timeline for concluding the EPDP's work.   

6. DNS Abuse Small Team

• The Small Team on DNS Abuse's report and 4 recommendations remains as discussed at ICANN75.
• Council implicitly supported the idea for the Small Team to regroup to draft the letter to Contracted Parties regarding how best to address the gaps identified in the RA (namely, in Spec 11 3(b) and RAA (namely, in s. 3.18.1) which is the subject of the Small Team's recommendation #4.

GNSO Council Meeting #8 of 2022 held on 25 Aug 2022 

• Agenda
• Matters of Interest
• Meeting Record
• Special Summary Report

GNSO Council Meeting #8 of 2022 held on 25 Aug 2022

Full Agenda  |  Motions 

• Item 1: Administrative Matters
• Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List
• Item 3: Consent Agenda 
• Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - Initiation of the GNSO Guidance Process on Applicant Support
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Council Commitments Document
• Item 6. COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Preparation for Joint Meetings at ICANN75
• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - PDP Improvements Tracker - Review of Format 
• Item 8: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Revised Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) Policy Status Report (PSR)
• Item 9: 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 15 June 2022 were posted on 01 July 2022.

  • Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on 21 July 2022 were posted on 05 August 2022.

• Item 3: Consent Agenda 
  • Approval of the 2022 Customer Standing Committee (CSC) Slate, the full membership of which must be approved by the GNSO Council, in accordance with Section 17.2 (d) of the ICANN Bylaw and per the CSC Charter. The ALAC Liaison nominated for the term 2021-2023 is Holly Raiche.
• Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - Initiation of the GNSO Guidance Process on Applicant Support
  • In the course of Council's consideration of the ICANN Org SubPro ODP Team's work in February 2022 - and although specifically about the topic of Applicant Support at that point - broader procedural concerns arose about whether the level of substantive work receommended by SubPro to be conducted by an IRT, would be beyond the commonly understood scope of the IRT.
  • Council agreed to explore finding avenues to complete that level of substantive work in advance of the expected IRT that would be convened upon ICANN Board adoption of the SubPro Outputs. The potential model to address this work is the GNSO Guidance Process. ICANN org staff worked with Jeff Neuman and Council leadership to prepare a draft GGP Initiation request, which was shared on Council list on 4 May 2022.
  • The potential GGP was discussed further during the Council’s June meeting, with general agreement it should be limited to the singular topic of Applicant Support. There was however discussion that additional topics should be able to be added to the existing GGP, at the discretion of the Council.
  • The updated GGP, with Applicant Support as the only topic, was shared with the Council on 13 July 2022. 
  • The vote was deferred and after additional discussion, the Council agreed that more time was needed to refine the Initiation Request, especially the membership structure; the overall sentiment seemed to be that membership structure needed to be reduced both in terms of complexity and number of members. A new version that seeks to address these concerns was circulated on 12 August 2022. In brief, this new version proposes:
    • A (smaller) Working Group employing a “Representative + Observers” model, to conduct and conclude its work, and oversight activities, in an efficient/effective manner while allowing for inclusive community participation. GNSO Council retains oversight, as with any GNSO WG.
    • Each AC/SG, ASO and ccNSO may appoint 1 Member to the WG, who are expected to represent the view of their appointing organization and may be called on to provide the official position of their appointing organization and will be responsible for participating in GGP consensus calls. Appointing organizations may replace their Member at their discretion.
    • Members must either possess a level of expertise in previous deliberations and/or knowledge that may have been lacking during those initial deliberations.
    • The WG has the flexibility/discretion to rely on Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in specific fields to aid in deliberations for certain tasks, but these SMEs will not be considered as Members of the WG.
    • The GNSO Liaison to the ODP may serve as an non-voting member of the WG to advise on issues discussed within the SubPro PDP.
  • Council will discuss and vote on this new proposed version of the GGP on Applicant Support, which to be carried requires a Voting threshold of an affirmative vote of more than one-third (1/3) of each House or more than two-thirds (2/3) of one House)

• • • The resolved portion of the motion to be voted on reads, 

1. The GNSO Council approves the GNSO Guidance Process Initiation Request and initiates the GGP.
2. The GNSO Council directs staff to:

a. communicate the results of this motion to the GNSO SG/Cs as well as ICANN SO/ACs and invite them to identify Members for the Steering Group following the Steering Group composition described in the initiation request;
b. communicate the results of this motion to the ICANN Org GDS Team and invite them to identify at least one (1) staff liaison for the Steering Group; and
c. launch a call for expressions of interest seeking interested candidates to Chair the Steering Group.

Action by ALAC Liaison

• •  To monitor initiation of the request for the GNSO Guidance Process (GGP), and to ensure role for ALAC/At-Large in resulting process.

    See TAB under 'POST GNSO COUNCIL MEETING DEVELOPMENTS' section for easier tracking. 

• Item 6. COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Preparation for Joint Meetings at ICANN75
  • The GNSO Council is scheduled to meet with the ICANN Board, the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), and the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) during the course of ICANN75. Council is to review the topics proposed by each of these groups, as follows:
    • Board: “What collaborative actions should the Community, Board and Org be undertaking to further progress achieving our strategic priorities?”
    • ALAC: (1) The GNSO Council Small Team on DNS Abuse's work; and (2) The terms of reference for the proposed pilot Holistic Review, being a recommendation of the ATRT3.
    • GAC: (1) SSAD Light; (2) Subsequent Rounds of New gTLDs; (3) DNS Abuse; (4) Accuracy.

Action by ALAC Liaison

• •  To confirm/amend proposed topics for joint meeting with ALAC.

• Item 8: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Revised Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) Policy Status Report (PSR)
  • Council had, in January 2021, approved the recommendations in the Phase 1 Final Report of the GNSO PDP on RPMs (which was limited to the review of the URS which is applicable only to new gTLDs).o
  • Subsequently and more recently, 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. This led Council to request a Policy Status Report (PSR) to help inform next steps.
  • ICANN org’s Global Domains & Strategy (GDS) team has since completed the draft PSR and published it for public comment on 3 March 2022. The revised PSR (redline) was shared with the Council on 18 July. 
  • Council will be briefed by GDS on updates made based on public comments received.

Action by ALAC Liaison

• •  To monitor and report to ALAC as needed.

• Item 9: ANY OTHER BUSINESS
  • 9.1 – Update on action items related to the Policy Status Report (PSR) for the Expired Domain Deletion Policy and the Expired Registration Recovery Policy
  • 9.3 – Closed Generics facilitated dialogue - Proposed approach for identifying the GNSO members

Records of 25 Aug 2022 Meeting

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

Special Summary Report of 25 Aug 2022 Meeting to ALT-PLUS

For brevity, I will just highlight a few things here. For some of the issues, you can glean a wider perspective from GNSO Council Aug 2022 Matters of Interest and the meeting records /or from GNSO Council Aug 2022 Meeting Records.

1. GNSO Guidance Process (GGP) on Applicant Support 

• GNSO Council resolved unanimously to initiate the GGP using a "Representative + Observers" WG model. Each SG/C/AC will be invited to nominate their respective single representative. The GGP will start its work on the Applicant Support Program first, with the possibility of adding down the line, such topics which were identified in the SubPro Outputs as requiring further work.
• The "Representative + Observers" WG model was selected because it allows participation from beyond GNSO's SG/C to include ACs (in particular, ALAC and GAC who have significant interest in the topic). The limitation of one representative per group is to keep the WG not only representative but sufficiently small to perform efficiently. 
• An invitation will be issued to all SG/C/ACs soon to nominate their respective representatives who should meet given criteria.  A call for EOI to chair the WG will also be made separately.

2. Preparation for ALAC-GNSO Joint Meeting at ICANN75 

• Two topics had been earlier proposed: (1) The works of the Council's Small Team on DNS Abuse; and (2) Pilot Holistic Review Terms of Reference.
• I was subsequently requested to withdraw Topic (2) which I did and proposed that it be replaced with a brief open discussion on observations to the SubPro ODP/ODA.
• GNSO Councilors seem to prefer that the new Topic 2 be generalized on the ODP concept as opposed to specifically on the SubPro ODP/ODA.

3. Closed Generics Dialogue between GAC-GNSO-ALAC

• We were informed that this Dialogue will likely not commence during ICANN 75.

GNSO Council Meeting #7 of 2022 held on 21 Jul 2022 

• Agenda
• Matters of Interest
• Meeting Records
• Special Summary Report

GNSO Council Meeting #7 of 2022 held on 21 Jul 2022

Full Agenda  |  Motions 

• Item 1: Administrative Matters
• Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List
• Item 3: Consent Agenda
• Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - Initiation of the GNSO Guidance Process on Applicant Support
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Policy Status Report for the Expired Domain Deletion Policy and the Expired Registration Recovery Policy - Next Steps
• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - PDP Improvements Tracker - Review of Format 
• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Council Commitments Document 
• 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 19 May 2022 were posted on 03 June 2022.

  • Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on 15 June 2022 were posted on 01 July 2022

• Item 3: Consent Agenda 
  • Confirmation of the Recommendations Report to the ICANN Board regarding adoption of recommendations 1-5 contained in the Final Report from the EPDP on Specific Curative Rights Protections for IGOs. 
    
    • The resolved portion of the motion to be voted on reads, "The GNSO Council approves the Recommendations Report and instructs the GNSO Secretariat to transmit the report to the ICANN Board and communicate the outcomes from the GNSO Council’s decisions as appropriate."
• Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - Initiation of the GNSO Guidance Process on Applicant Support
  • In the course of Council's consideration of the ICANN Org SubPro ODP Team's work in February 2022 - and although specifically about the topic of Applicant Support at that point - broader procedural concerns arose about whether the level of substantive work receommended by SubPro to be conducted by an IRT, would be beyond the commonly understood scope of the IRT.
  • Council agreed to explore finding avenues to complete that level of substantive work in advance of the expected IRT that would be convened upon ICANN Board adoption of the SubPro Outputs. The potential model to address this work is the GNSO Guidance Process. ICANN org staff worked with Jeff Neuman and Council leadership to prepare a draft GGP Initiation request, which was shared on Council list on 4 May 2022.
  • The potential GGP was discussed further during the Council’s June meeting, with general agreement it should be limited to the singular topic of Applicant Support. There was however discussion that additional topics should be able to be added to the existing GGP, at the discretion of the Council.
  • The updated GGP, with Applicant Support as the only topic, was shared with the Council on 13 July 2022.
  • Council to discuss and vote on the initiation of the GNSO Guidance Process on Applicant Support, which to be carried requires a Voting threshold of an affirmative vote of more than one-third (1/3) of each House or more than two-thirds (2/3) of one House)

• • • The resolved portion of the motion to be voted on reads, 

1. The GNSO Council approves the GNSO Guidance Process Initiation Request and initiates the GGP.
2. The GNSO Council directs staff to:

a. communicate the results of this motion to the GNSO SG/Cs as well as ICANN SO/ACs and invite them to identify Members for the Steering Group following the Steering Group composition described in the initiation request;
b. communicate the results of this motion to the ICANN Org GDS Team and invite them to identify at least one (1) staff liaison for the Steering Group; and
c. launch a call for expressions of interest seeking interested candidates to Chair the Steering Group.

Action by ALAC Liaison

• •  To monitor initiation of the request for the GNSO Guidance Process (GGP), and to ensure role for ALAC/At-Large in resulting process.

    See TAB under 'POST GNSO COUNCIL MEETING DEVELOPMENTS' section for easier tracking. 

• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Policy Status Report for the Expired Domain Deletion Policy and the Expired Registration Recovery Policy - Next Steps
  • During the Council’s meeting in November 2020, it voted to approve a deferral for the request of a Policy Status Report (PSR) for the Expired Domain Deletion Policy (EDDP) and the Expired Registration Recovery Policy (ERRP). The EDDP defines a uniform delete practice that registrars must follow at the time of domain name expiry, as well as specific requirements for registrar handling of expired names that are subject to a UDRP dispute. The ERRP sets minimum renewal notification requirements for registrars before and after domain names expire, as well as certain requirements for renewal and restoration of expired domain names. In taking this action, the Council was careful to note that it recognized the importance of the PSR for these two expiration related Consensus Policies, but did not see the PSR as urgent at that time. After approximately 1.5 years, the potential PSR has again risen to the 0-1 month range of the Action Decision Radar.
  • Council must consider again whether a PSR is necessary and if it is timely to request a PSR from ICANN org’s Global Domains and Strategy (GDS) function. Council could consider interim steps prior to determining whether a full PSR is needed, such as reviewing ICANN Compliance data and/or requesting an update on expiration related complaints from ICANN Compliance, to help determine if there are known issues with either of the two policies.
  • Council to discuss appropriate next steps for the potential PSR for the EDDP and ERRP.

Action by ALAC Liaison

• •  To review for direct relevant to end-user (registrants), and to inform if need arises for a role for ALAC/At-Large in any resulting process. 
    
    
• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - PDP Improvements Tracker - Review of Format
  • During the ICANN73 wrap up, the Council discussed a number of parallel conversations that have emerged since implementing PDP 3.0, identifying other aspects of the PDP where improvements could be considered. Council discussed the discussion paper and agreed that to better understand the concept, it would be helpful to have an example of what the tracker may look like. A draft of the PDP Improvements Tracker was prepared and discussed during the Council’s June meeting. While substantive review of the items in the tracker will take place in the near future, this agenda item is to help ensure that the format of the tracker meets the needs of the Council; a series of six questions are included in the PDP Improvements Tracker for consideration by the Council, to help make that determination.
  • Council will continue its review of the proposed format of the GNSO PDP Improvements tracker

Action by ALAC Liaison

• •  To review for direct relevant to At-Large, and to inform if need arises for a role for ALAC/At-Large in any resulting process. Answer: No. 

• Item 8: ANY OTHER BUSINESS
  • 8.1 – Last call for input on the Council’s response to SubPro Question Set #4

Action by ALAC Liaison

• •  Participated in the Council Small Team on SubPro Questions Set #4

See TAB under 'POST GNSO COUNCIL MEETING DEVELOPMENTS' section for easier tracking.

• • 8.2 – ICANN75 Planning

Action by ALAC Liaison

• •  To establish if there is a need for an ALAC-GNSO Bilateral Meeting at ICANN75 

Records of 21 Jul 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
• Minutes

Special Summary Report of 21 Jul 2022 Meeting to ALT-PLUS

For brevity, I will just highlight a few things here. For some of the issues, you can glean a wider perspective from GNSO Council Jul 2022 Matters of Interest and the meeting records /or from GNSO Council Jul 2022 Meeting Records.

1. GNSO Guidance Process (GGP) on Applicant Support 

• Council discussed the draft GGP Initiation Request to establish a GGP to start with Applicant Support using a Steering Committee (of a representative+observer model) with ultimate oversight by Council, given that it received a proposed amendment to the said GPP from Kurt Pritz (RySG), primarily regarding the composition of the Steering Committee.
• Discussion revealed some support for a smaller Steering Committee (or Small Team) which does not require strict representation from GNSO SGs/Cs but may also invite participation from beyond GNSO (ALAC and GAC who have significant interest in the topic) and still call upon any required expertise referred to in the SubPro Outputs. 
• Council deferred voting on the submitted motion to its Aug meeting to allow opportunity to rework the GPP Initiation Request to take into account points from the discussion.

2. Policy Status Report for the Expired Domain Deletion Policy and the Expired Registration Recovery Policy 

• Council agree to pursue a light approach to a request for the Policy Status Report (PSR) for the Expired Domain Deletion Policy (EDDP) and the Expired Registration Recovery Policy (ERRP), by first requesting for ICANN Compliance data and/or requesting an update on expiration related complaints from ICANN Compliance, and feedback from the RrSG on the EDDP and ERRP, to help determine if there are known issues with either of the two policies.
• These 2 policies affect registrants, so, further understanding is needed on whether At-Large's involvement is needed and if so, in what form.

3. SubPro ODP

• Council received the ICANN org SubPro ODP Team's question set #5

GNSO Council Meeting #6 of 2022 held on 15 and 16 Jun 2022 during ICANN 74 

• Agenda
• Matters of Interest
• Meeting Records
• Special Summary Report

GNSO Council Meeting #6 of 2022 held on 15 and 16 Jun 2022 during ICANN 74 

Full Agenda  |  Motions  

• Item 1: Administrative Matters
• Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List
• Item 3: Consent Agenda - None
• Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - Final Report and Recommendations From the EPDP on Specific Curative Rights Protections for IGOs 
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Impact of SSAD Light on Other Work
• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - SubPro GGP
• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - SubPro ODP Update 
• Item 8: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Closed Generics Small Team
• Item 9: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - GNSO PDP Improvements - Tracking and Coordination Discussion Paper
• Item 10: Any other business

Under Council Wrap-up

• Item 1: Council commitments document
• Item 2/9: Next steps on GNSO PDP Improvements Tracker
• Item 3: Thomas Rickart’s AOB Item - implementation preview during the PDP WG work (prior to the  consensus call)
• Item 4: GAC Communique - GNSO response
• Item 5: Impressions from the hybrid ICANN74 meeting
• Item 6: AOB

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 14 April 2022 were posted on 29 April 2022.
  • Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on 19 May 2022 were posted on 03 June 2022.
• Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - Final Report and Recommendations From the EPDP on Specific Curative Rights Protections for IGOs 
  • Council to vote on a motion to approve the recommendations in the Final Report
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Impact of SSAD Light on Other Work
  • Council will discuss next steps for the SSAD Light Design Concept post receiving additional information from ICANN Org that indicates that the impact to the SubPro ODP,  ZDS 3.0 and the EBERO Program and DEA improvements projects/initiatives would not be equal. Specifically, CZDS 3.0 and the EBERO Program and DEA improvements would be paused while the SubPro ODP would be delayed but not paused. Further information is expected to better understand the impact, including whether the delays would mean missing key milestones.
• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - SubPro GGP
  • Council will consider the potential GGP Initiation Request and discuss next steps

Action by ALAC Liaison

•  To review in due course an initiation of the request for the GNSO Guidance Process (GGP), and to ensure role for ALAC/At-Large in resulting process.

    See TAB under 'POST GNSO COUNCIL MEETING DEVELOPMENTS' section for easier tracking. 

• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - SubPro ODP Update
  • Council will receive an update from the liaison and discuss Question Set #4
• Item 8: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Closed Generics Small Team
  • By way of background,
    • On 6 March 2022, the ICANN Board sent a letter to both the GNSO and the GAC, inviting them to “explore a mutually agreeable way forward, for which the Board could facilitate a dialogue to formulate a workable framework to identify and handle closed generic applications for the immediate next round of new gTLDs.” Shortly thereafter, and as requested by the Board, ICANN org prepared a draft Framing Paper to support the potential collaboration between the GNSO and the GAC. 
    • The Council established a small team to consider both the letter and framework, to determine next steps. To support this work, Council leadership and staff developed an assignment form, which helps make clear the narrow ask of the small team (i.e., whether the GNSO Council is open to working with the GAC to seek to develop a framework on closed generics). 
    • On 27 April 2022, the Council responded to the Board affirmatively, that it is willing to pursue next steps. Subsequently, the Council tasked the small team with preparing for the next step, of mutually agreeing with the GAC on the parameters, processes, and procedures for the facilitated dialogue. 
    • On 19 May 2022, Council received a reply from the Board, inter alia encouraging GAC and Council to confer on the question of ALAC's participation in the consultative process.
    • The small team has provided its recommendations to the Council on 11 June 2022.
  • Council will discuss the recommendations of the small team

Action by ALAC Liaison

•  To monitor developments and to ensure role for ALAC/At-Large in resulting process.

    See TAB under 'POST GNSO COUNCIL MEETING DEVELOPMENTS' section for easier tracking. 

• Item 9: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - GNSO PDP Improvements - Tracking and Coordination Discussion Paper
  • Council had discussed the discussion paper and agreed that to better understand the concept, it would be helpful to have an example of what the tracker may look like. Council will receive a preview of the potential GNSO PDP Improvements tracker.

Records of 15 and 16 June 2022 Meetings at ICANN72

Special Summary Report of 15 Jun 2022 Meeting to ALT-PLUS

For brevity, I will just highlight a few things here. For some of the issues, you can glean a wider perspective from GNSO Council Jun 2022 Matters of Interest and the meeting records /or from GNSO Council Jun 2022 Meeting Records.

1. EPDP on Specific Curative Rights Protection for IGOs Final Report

• Council resolved unanimously to approve all 5 recommendations in the Final Report.

2. SubPro ODP

• Council to set up a drafting team to assist the GNSO Council’s liaison to the ODP with preparing answers to the ICANN org SubPro ODP Team's question set #4 and SubPro Topic Assumptions. Paul McGrady and Justine Chew have volunteered for the drafting team. 

3. GNSO Guidance Process for Subsequent Procedures (SubPro GGP)

• Council will proceed with a motion in its Jul meeting to establish a GGP to work just on Applicant Support through a Steering Committee (of a representative+observer model) with ultimate oversight by Council. The scope for this GGP on Applicant Support will reflect what is currently set  out in the draft SubPro GGP Initiation Request.

4. GNSO-GAC Dialogue on Closed Generics

• Council has agreed to relay its recommendations to the Board and GAC as the next step leading to the start of the GAC-GNSO Dialogue, with ALAC participation as a third party, through 1 ALAC-selected member (+ 1 alternate).

GNSO Council Meeting #5 of 2022 held on 19 May 2022 

• Agenda
• Matters of Interest
• Meeting Record
• Special Summary Report

GNSO Council Meeting #5 of 2022 held on 19 May 2022 

Full Agenda  |  Motions  

• Item 1: Administrative Matters
• Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List
• Item 3: Consent Agenda - None
• Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - Adoption of the Revised Charter for the Standing Selection Committee 
• Item 5: COUNCIL VOTE - Final Report and Recommendations From the EPDP on Specific Curative Rights Protections for IGOs 
• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - GNSO PDP Improvements - Tracking and Coordination Discussion Paper
• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Impact of SSAD Light on Other Work
• Item 8: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - SubPro ODP Update 
• Item 9: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - SubPro GGP
• Item 10: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Registration Data Accuracy Scoping Team Update
• Item 11: Any other business
  • 11.2 SOAC Chairs Roundtable Update
  • 11.3 ICANN74 Planning

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 09 March 2022 were posted on 24 March 2022.

  • Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on 14 April 2022 were posted on 29 April 2022.

• Item 5: COUNCIL VOTE - Final Report and Recommendations From the EPDP on Specific Curative Rights Protections for IGOs 
  • Council will consider and vote on the motion (put by GNSO Council liaison to the EPDP, John McElwaine) to adopt the EPDP Team’s Final Report of 4 April 2022.
  • Council voting threshold: Supermajority (per GNSO Operating Procedures)
• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - GNSO PDP Improvements - Tracking and Coordination Discussion Paper
  • Council will discuss a staff support team-developed discussion paper aimed at improving PDP tracking and coordination, which;
    • provides an overview of the different initiatives and projects,
    • suggests a possible approach for managing these different initiatives by focusing on 1) which elements could be implemented with relatively minimal effort, 2) which elements could be implemented with some effort, 3) which elements need careful planning and consideration before these can be implemented.
• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Impact of SSAD Light on Other Work
  • Council had met with the ICANN Board on 8 March during ICANN73, just prior to the March Council meeting and discussed the ODA and the efforts of the Council small team set up to review the ODA in detail.
  • The small team delivered its preliminary report to Council on 4 April 2022.

  • As part of the small team’s consultations with ICANN org, the org provided an SSAD Light Design Concept overview, guided by the proof of concept contained in the preliminary report. The paper anticipates a six week effort to produce the SSAD Light Design Concept paper. Notably, the resources needed to produce that document are responsible for other areas of work and developing the document will delay the timelines for each of the following projects/initiatives by 1.5 months:

    • SubPro ODP
    • CZDS 3.0
    • EBERO Program and DEA improvements
  • While ICANN org resources are directed by the ICANN Board, Council may want to provide input to the Board if there are concerns about the impact to these projects.
• Item 8: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - SubPro ODP Update
  • Council will receive an update from the liaison and discuss next steps.
  • Question set #4 and SubPro Topic Assumptions was shared with Council by its liaison to the ODP just prior to this meeting.
  • Question set #3 had been informed to Council on 11 April 2022.
• Item 9: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - SubPro GGP
  • The ICANN org SubPro ODP team had shared question set #2 with Council’s liaison to the ODP on 11 February 2022,  While question set #2 was specifically about the topic of Applicant Support, it introduced broader procedural concerns, about whether the level of substantive work recommended by SubPro to be conducted by an IRT, would be beyond the commonly understood scope of the IRT.
  • Council agreed that it should explore finding avenues to complete that level of substantive work in advance of the expected IRT that would be convened upon ICANN Board adoption of the SubPro Outputs. The potential model to address this work is the GNSO Guidance Process (GGP).
  • Council will discuss the draft GGP Initiation Request and discuss next steps.

Action by ALAC Liaison

•  To review in due course an initiation of the request for the GNSO Guidance Process (GGP), and to ensure role for ALAC/At-Large in resulting process.

    See TAB under 'POST GNSO COUNCIL MEETING DEVELOPMENTS' section for easier tracking. 

• Item 10: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Registration Data Accuracy Scoping Team Update
  • Council will receive an update on the progress of the Scoping Team.
  • Scoping Team Chair - Michael Palage has submitted a Project Change Request (PCR) for Council's consideration; the PCR seeks to extend the timeline of the Scoping Team's work in order to deliver the write up for assignments #1 and #2 at the latest shortly after ICANN74. The write up for assignments #1 and #2 may include recommendations for further work to be undertaken to gather data to help inform the group’s deliberations on assignments #3 and #4. This work is expected to focus on data gathering that does not involve access to registration data as further clarity on that aspect is being pursued separately. If the Council supports these recommendations, this work could continue.
• Item 11: Any other business
  • 11.2 SOAC Chairs Roundtable Update
  • 11.3 ICANN74 Planning

Records of 19 May 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
• Minutes

Special Summary Report of 19 May 2022 Meeting to ALT-PLUS

For brevity, I will just highlight a few things here. For some of the issues, you can glean a wider perspective from GNSO Council May 2022 Matters of Interest and the meeting records /or from GNSO Council May 2022 Meeting Records.

1. EPDP on Specific Curative Rights Protection for IGOs Final Report

• Council was meant to consider and vote on a motion to approve the recommendations in the Final Report but eventually resolved to defer the vote to Council's June 2022 meeting to allow the RrSG time for further consideration prior to the vote.

NB. Yrjo Lansipuro and I had presented on the substance of the Final Report to CPWG on 23 Mar, and Yrjo has provided updates re its consensus designation thereafter.

2. Impact of SSAD Light on other work

• Council noted that ICANN org resources were likely being directed by the ICANN Board towards designing SSAD Light, and considered concerns on the impact of this on other ongoing work, including the Subsequent Procedures Operational Design Phase. 
• Council discussed the concerns but did not arrive at a clear conclusion; Council opined that the Board would not do anything until ICANN 74 at the earliest. 

3. SubPro ODP

• The ICANN org SubPro ODP team had shared question set #4 and SubPro Topic Assumptions with Council’s liaison to the ODP who notified Council of the same on 19 May 2022 just before Councils' meet. So, Council is to consider this further through its usual process.

4. GNSO Guidance Process for Subsequent Procedures (SubPro GGP)

• GNSO support staff had prepared a draft SubPro GPP Initiation Request for Council's consideration. If approved, it would be the first GPP ever. Key points to note for the proposed GGP:
  • A GGP does not require a separate charter. Things like scope, working mechanism, and method of operation should all be contained in the initiation request.
  • The draft contains a concept of Group 1 versus Group 2 topics. Group 1 is where the SubPro Final Report specifically called out substantive work that it envisioned would be completed during the Implementation Review Team phase. Group 2 will be topics that are identified by the ODP Team, where they are able to determine that additional guidance is needed to support the presumed eventual implementation. The specifics for Group 2 are currently to be determined, as we await input from the ODP Team.
  • Relevant Outputs from the SubPro Final Report are reproduced, with Tasks identified or TBD. These tasks are envisioned as the specific scope of work for the GGP. Per the previous bullet, the tasks for Group 2 are still TBD.
  • The suggested working model for this group is proposed as a representative steering group, which can do the work itself, but it can also delegate the work to sub-teams where it is evident that the work is best performed by those with specific expertise in a certain field.
• Council did not come to a decision on the draft initiation request.

5. Registration Data Accuracy Scoping Team

• Michael Palage, Chair of this Scoping Team reported that it was informed that the Board had requested ICANN org to submit a list of questions to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) to gain some insight on 4 different scenarios and for org to do a data privacy impact assessment in connection with one of those scenarios. This was to to better prepare ICANN for onward engagement with the EDPB. All stakeholders in the Scoping Team were to consult their groups on the scenario(s).
• Michael had also submitted a Project Change Request (PCR) for Council's consideration; the PCR sought to:
  • extend the timeline of the Scoping Team's work in order to deliver the write up for assignments #1 and #2 at the latest shortly after ICANN74. The write up for assignments #1 and #2 may include recommendations for further work to be undertaken to gather data to help inform the group’s deliberations on assignments #3 and #4. This work is expected to focus on data gathering that does not involve access to registration data as further clarity on that aspect is being pursued separately.
• No objection was raised to the PCR.

6. ICANN74 planning

• There will not be an ALAC-GNSO Council bilateral session at ICANN74; due to brevity in length of ICANN74 and associated challenges of insufficient resources (suitable time, room and staff support). Instead, a meeting to progress any intersessional work between the 2 groups may be called if needed.

GNSO Council Meeting #4 of 2022 held on 14 Apr 2022 

• Agenda
• Matters of Interest
• Meeting Record
• Special Summary Report

GNSO Council Meeting #4 of 2022 held on 14 Apr 2022 

Full Agenda   

• Item 1: Administrative Matters
• Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List
• Item 3: Consent Agenda - None
• Item 4: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Small Team Reviewing the System for Standardized Access/Disclosure (SSAD) Operational Design Assessment Preliminary Draft Report
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Overview of the EPDP on Specific Curative Rights Protection for IGOs Final Report
• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - DNS Abuse Small Team Update
• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Closed Generics Small Team Update
• Item 8: Any other business
  • 8.1: ICANN74 update and planning
  • 8.2: Council expertise survey reminder

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 17 February 2022 were posted on 07 March 2022.

  • Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on 09 March 2022 were posted on 24 March 2022 .

• Item 4: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Small Team Reviewing the System for Standardized Access/Disclosure (SSAD) Operational Design Assessment Preliminary Draft Report
  • The small team delivered its preliminary report to Council on 4 April 2022.
  • Council will discuss the small team’s preliminary report and discuss next steps, including providing an update to the ICANN Board on the status of work and expected timing
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Overview of the EPDP on Specific Curative Rights Protection for IGOs Final Report
  • This EPDP Team reached full consensus on its five recommendations and delivered its Final Report on 4 April 2022

  • Council will receive an overview of the five recommendations contained in the EPDP Team’s Final Report.  Presentation

  • While the Council will not be voting on the Final Report during this meeting, a draft motion was also shared on 4 April 2022, which continues a recent practice of the Council reviewing and discussing PDP/EPDP final reports in detail prior to voting on them, generally at the subsequent meeting.

• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - DNS Abuse Small Team Update

  • Council sent outreach letters to the ALAC, GAC, SSAC, and the DNS Abuse Institute, with input due on 4 April 2022 (after an extension was granted).

  • The small team has worked to more precisely understand its work, developing and discussing a draft work plan. The work is broken into several phases, starting with the aforementioned outreach to the community, understanding the current landscape of DNS abuse, considering which elements of DNS abuse appear inadequately mitigated AND are in scope for GNSO policy making (if any), then making recommendations on next steps to the Council.

  • The small team will provide an update on its efforts and explain expected next steps.  

Action by ALAC Liaison

•  To ensure ALAC input is understood by DNS Abuse Small Team.

    See TAB under 'POST GNSO COUNCIL MEETING DEVELOPMENTS' section for easier tracking. 

• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Closed Generics Small Team Update
  • On 6 March 2022, the ICANN Board sent a letter to both the GNSO and the GAC, inviting them to “explore a mutually agreeable way forward, for which the Board could facilitate a dialogue to formulate a workable framework to identify and handle closed generic applications for the immediate next round of new gTLDs.” ICANN org's draft Framing Paper to support the potential collaboration between the GNSO and the GAC followed so after.
  • Council established a small team to consider both the letter and framework, to determine next steps, relying on an assignment form to help make clear the narrow ask of the small team (i.e., whether the GNSO Council is open to working with the GAC to seek to develop a framework on closed generics). All of the more substantive steps, both to  determine the parameters and modalities for a potential GNSO/GAC joint group, as well as seeking to establish a framework for closed generics, are out of scope for this small team.
  • Council will received an update on the small team's work.

Action by ALAC Liaison

•  To monitor developments and to ensure role for ALAC/At-Large in resulting process.

    See TAB under 'POST GNSO COUNCIL MEETING DEVELOPMENTS' section for easier tracking. 

Records of 14 Apr 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
• Minutes 

Special Summary Report of 14 Apr 2022 Meeting to ALT-PLUS

For brevity, I will just highlight a few things here. For some of the issues, you can glean a wider perspective from GNSO Council Apr 2022 Matters of Interest and the meeting records /or from GNSO Council Apr 2022 Meeting Records.

1. SSAD ODA

• Council SSAD ODA small team lead Sebastien Ducos spoke to the small team's preliminary report and essentially asked Council for support to provide ICANN Board with an update (in response to concerns as to the SSAD's financial sustainability) and to pursue further work on the recommended "proof of concept" referred to in the said report.

NB. Alan Greenberg has presented on the preliminary report to CPWG on 6 Apr.   

2. EPDP on Specific Curative Rights Protection for IGOs Final Report

• Council received a presentation of the 5 recommendations from this EPDP's Chair, Chris Disspain, which he noted as having had full consensus within the EPDP (ALAC included). As per normal practice, Council will only vote on a motion to the recommendations at Council's May 2022 meeting (i.e. the meeting following which a motion on a final report is submitted).

NB. Yrjo Lansipuro and I had presented on the substance of the Final Report to CPWG on 23 Mar, and Yrjo has provided updates re its consensus designation thereafter.

3. DNS Abuse

• Council DNS Abuse small team co-lead Mark Datysgeld spoke to the team's draft work plan comprising several phases, starting with outreach to the community, to understand the current landscape of DNS abuse, considering which elements of DNS abuse appear inadequately mitigated AND are in scope for GNSO policy making (if any), and ultimately to make recommendations on next steps to the Council.
• Small team has received initial inputs from ALAC, GAC, SSAC and DNSAI; followed by BC, and is currently awaiting submissions from other SG/Cs.

NB. In other words, there is nowhere near any concrete output yet.

4. Closed Generics

• To be clear, the GNSO Council Small Team on Closed Generics wasn't charged with substantive content-specific tasks, but instead it had only been charged with recommending whether GNSO should accept the Board's invitation to dialogue with the GAC. Also, there were remarks on the unrepresentative nature of the small team even though it was open to any councilor to volunteer for.
• The small team has had one meeting so far, which was spent attempting to resolve NCSG's objection to the Board-proposed GNSO-GAC Dialogue mechanism based on several grounds, inter alia - 
• unconventional and not provided for within GNSO processes or the ICANN Bylaws, 
• sets precedent for opening settled PDP for re-litigation, 
• gives GAC undue influence over Closed Generics (or any matter under the remit of GNSO per the Bylaws).
• Council discussed NCSG's objection and informally resolved to ask the small team to continue its work, on the assumption that Council will accept the Board's invitation to dialogue with GAC and specifically, in particular on how Council should approach the dialogue.

NB. Do note that (a) GAC has accepted the Board's invitation to dialogue with GNSO and Manal's letter to Maarten of 10 Mar 2022 clearly welcomed ALAC's participation in a consultation process on Closed Generics; (b) Philippe had also suggested that the small team may wish to consider the feasibility of ALAC's participation in the dialogue.

5. ICANN74 planning

• I raised the question whether there might be an ALAC-GNSO Council bilateral at ICANN74; due to brevity in length of ICANN74 and associated challenges of insufficient resources (suitable time, room and staff support) it is now thought that a meeting between the Leaderships of ALAC and GNSO Council would be a better approach to continue any intersessional work between the 2 groups.

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

• Agenda
• Matters of Interest
• Meeting Record
• Special Summary Report

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  and/or 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)