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GNSO Council Meeting #12 of 2022 held on 15 Dec 2022 

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

GNSO Council Meeting #12 of 2022 held on 15 Dec 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 - Adopting the Council Committee for Overseeing and Implementing Continuous Improvements (CCOICI)’s Work Stream 2 (WS2) Recommendations Report 
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Expired Domain Deletion Policy and the Expired Registration Recovery Policy Next Steps
• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Debrief From Council-Specific SubPro Operational Design Assessment (ODA) Webinar and Q&A
• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Review Implementation Prioritization Supplemental Fund for Implementation of Community Recommendations (SFICR) Request - Council Role?
• 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 20 October 2022 were posted on 04 November 2022.
  • Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on 17 November 2022 were posted on 01 December 2022.
• Item 3: Consent Agenda
  • Motion to approve GNSO Standing Selection Committee (SSC) Leadership for 2022-2023
  • Motion to confirm CCOICI Chair and GNSO Council representative to the WS2 Community Coordination Group
  • Acknowledgment of the GNSO Council liaison to the GNSO Guidance Process (GGP) for Applicant Support
  • Acknowledgment of the Work Plan for the GNSO Guidance Process (GGP) for Applicant Support
• Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - Adopting the Council Committee for Overseeing and Implementing Continuous Improvements (CCOICI)’s Work Stream 2 (WS2) Recommendations Report 
  • Motion to adopt the Council Committee for Overseeing and Implementing Continuous Improvement (CCOICI) WS2 Recommendations Report
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Expired Domain Deletion Policy and the Expired Registration Recovery Policy Next Steps
  • In July 2022, Council agreed that it would be helpful to check with the registrars and ICANN Compliance to help determine if there are any known issues or concerns with either of the two Expiration Policies which could warrant requesting a Policy Status Report (PSR).
  • A report from Contractual Compliance was shared with Council on 1 November 2022 and feedback from the registrars has been shared in the past on previous Council calls. 
  • Council received a briefing on the report from ICANN Compliance and the Council briefly considered potential next steps. One suggestion may be to task a Councilor member to review the report from Contractual Compliance in detail and determine if any of the issues raised warrant further work at present. That analysis will help inform the Council overall and allow the Council to formally record its determination as appropriate.
  • Council will consider appropriate next steps
• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Debrief From Council-Specific SubPro Operational Design Assessment (ODA) Webinar and Q&A
  • On 12 September 2021 the ICANN Board directed ICANN org to organize the resources required to begin work on the Operational Design Phase (ODP) for the GNSO’s New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Final Report and the Affirmations, Recommendations, and Implementation Guidance contained in that report.
  • On 20 December 2021, ICANN org announced that the SubPro ODP had formally launched, starting at the beginning of January 2022. The ODP Team has shared numerous updates to the community and sent several sets of assumptions/questions to the GNSO Council via the Council’s liaison to the ODP. 

  • ICANN org is expected to publish the SubPro Operational Design Assessment (ODA) on 12 December. In advance of publication of the ODA, Council will receive a briefing during a webinar on 7 December. While it is unlikely that there is adequate time for Councilors to have reviewed the ODA in detail, there may be initial impressions from council-specific webinar. ICANN org staff that supported the SubPro Operational Design Phase (ODP) will be available to answer questions and engage in dialogue.

  • Council will hold a debrief from the council-specific SubPro ODA webinar and engage with ICANN org staff that supported the ODP/ODA.

• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Review Implementation Prioritization Supplemental Fund for Implementation of Community Recommendations (SFICR) Request - Council Role?
  • On 16 November 2022, the Board resolved to approve, “the use of US$5,800,000 from the SFICR to fund implementation of community prioritized reviews.” Of note, the Board’s resolution is in direct relation to Specific Reviews (ATRT3, CCT, SSR2, RDS-WHOIS2). Nevertheless, the topics referenced in the recommendations may be of interest to Council. As an example, line item 9 in the prioritized set of recommendations is related to DNS abuse, a subject which is of relevance to the Council. While Council’s remit is specific to the development of gTLD policy development, a question was raised as to whether Council has a role or input, or should appropriately have a role or input, towards the implementation of Specific Review recommendations.
  • Council will consider if it has a role in the prioritization and implementation of Specific Review recommendations.
• Item 8: ANY OTHER BUSINESS
  • 8.4 - Update on RPMs IRT timeline.
  • 8.5 - DNS abuse draft letters.

Records of 15 Dec 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 of 15 Dec 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 Dec 2022 Matters of Interest and/or from GNSO Council Dec 2022 Meeting Records.

1. Consent Agenda

• Council approved the GNSO Standing Selection Committee (SSC) leadership team for 2022-2023: Arinola Akinyemi (BC) to remain for a second term as Chair, and Alan Woods (RySG) to serve as Vice Chair.
• Council confirmed Manju Chen (NCSG) as Council Committee for Overseeing and Implementing Continuous Improvement (CCOICI) Chair and GNSO Council representative to the WS2 Community Coordination Group.
• Council approved Paul McGrady for the position of Liaison from the GNSO Council to the GNSO Guidance Process (GGP) for Applicant Support (i.e. Applicant Support Working Group).
• Council approved the Work Plan for the GNSO Guidance Process (GGP) for Applicant Support.

2. Debrief from Subsequent Procedures Operational Design Assessment (SubPro ODA)

• Councilors were encouraged to read the SubPro ODA, and to review the recordings for the ODA GNSO Council Specific Webinar (or transcript), and the Community Webinar #1 and Community Webinar #2.
• (sic) Council will rely on the Council Small Team comprising Anne Aikman-Scalese (NCA), Jeff Neuman (GNSO Liaison to SubPro ODP), Paul McGrady (NCA-Non CPH), Thomas Rickert (ISCP), Sebastien Ducos (RySG), Susan Payne (IPC) and Justine Chew (ALAC Liaison to GNSO), Desiree Miloshevic (NCA-CPH), Anne Aikman-Scalese (NCA) and Susan Payne (IPC) to establish if there were questions or clarifications needed to be relayed to the ICANN Org SubPro Team; and likely comments to be relay to the ICANN Board. 

3. DNS Abuse Small Team

• Following the approval of the Small Team's reportby Council on 17 Nov 2022, the Small Team's Leadership comprising Mark Datysgeld (BC) and Paul McGrady (NCA-Non CPH) worked with GNSO support staff to draft letters to the Contracted Parties, pursuant to recommendations #2 (bulk registrations), #3 (reporting of DNS Abuse), and #4 (action & enforcement) of its report.  (NB. #2 bulk registrations was based on ALAC's input)
• In particular, there are 2 letters - one regarding bulk registrations and the other regarding DNS Abuse Reporting / Action & Enforcement.
  
• Upon feedback from Kurt Pritz (RySG) that the term "bulk registrations" may require defining, I proposed that the first letter on bulk registrations be amended to include a request that the recipients include as context, a description of their respective bulk registration categorization and procedures.
• Otherwise, the draft letters appear to be in order. I also asked that Council be notified when these letters are sent out so that Council is kept aware of this exercise's progress.

4. Expired Domain Deletion Policy and the Expired Registration Recovery Policy 

• Given earlier raised concerns about capacity, and the fact that no one/group has raised any serious concerns about the (1) Expiration Policies, the Expired Domain Deletion Policy (EDDP) and (2) Expired Registration Recovery Policy (ERRP), which are dual policies around the renewal of domain registrations. As such, there continues to be reservations on the need for a Policy Status Report (PSR) to be undertaken for a review of the EDDP and ERRP.
• It was suggested that the issue of confusion mentioned in the report from Contractual Compliance could be something that could be adequately resolved between ICANN Contractual Compliance and the RrSG.
• In the end, it was suggested and decided that a small team comprising Greg DiBiase (RrSG), Susan Payne (IPC) and Nacho Amadoz (RySG) will work with ICANN org's Caitlin Tubergen to analyse the Contractual Compliance report then report back to Council afterwards on next steps (if any).

5. Review Implementation Prioritization Supplemental Fund for Implementation of Community Recommendations (SFICR) Request - Council's role?

• Doubts were expressed that Council had a specific role in the SFICR Request. Forty-five Board-approved recommendations that have been prioritized for USD 5.8mil SFICR funding will be implemented by the groups at which each of those recommendations are targeted. 

6. Rights Protection Mechanisms for All New gTLDs Implementation Review Team (RPMs IRT)

• Council did not discuss this at length; it was merely reported that this IRT has just commenced its work / meeting calls.