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Jonathan Zuck provided an update on incoming and outgoing ALAC leadership and Sebatian Sebastien Ducos, GNSO chair, provided an update on incoming and outgoing GNSO council leadership.

ALAC and Council leadership discussed diacritics in diacritics in New gTLDs (specifically specifically .Quebec and .Québec), Next Round New gTLD Program, and Registration Data Request Service (RDRS). 

• Regarding diacritics: The GNSO Council will continue to discuss the issue of diacritics, Council has not yet determined how they would like to proceed with the issue. 
• Regarding the Next Round New gTLD Program: The GNSO Council is initiating expanding the existing Council Small Team to a "Small Team Plus" to address the remain pending recommendations from the Final Report on the new gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process . which either remain pending or that have not been adopted by the ICANN Board.
• Regarding the RDRS: Registrar onboarding has begun and should launch by the end of the calendar year. The RDRS is voluntary and will inform the paths forward for pending registration data access (formerly System for Standardized Access/Disclosure) recommendations. The RDRS will run for 2 years and pending recommendations will then be revisited.

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•  Jonathan Zuck announced that the CPWG calls are mandatory for all ALAC members so that they are aware of the topic when ratifying ALAC statements. 
•  Justine Chew To facilitate any request(s) in response to Contracted Parties on ' outreach for updates on their DNS Abuse mitigation efforts from time to time.
•  Justine Chew To bring back the discussion on enforceability of Registry Voluntary Commitments (RVCs) to CPWG.
•  Justine Chew To formulate a discussion with CPWG on a potential way to help resolve contention sets in the Next Round of applications so as to lessen the risk of qualified Applicant Support applicants failing to secure their string as a result of contention sets.