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GNSO Council Meeting #3 of 2024 held on 6 Mar 2024 during ICANN 79, and including a Council Wrap-up Session on 7 Mar 2024

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

GNSO Council Meeting #3 of 2024 held on 6 Mar 2024 

Full Agenda  |  Documents  |  Motions

• Item 1: Administrative Matters
• Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects List and and Action Item List. 
• Item 3: Consent Agenda
  • Motion to Adopt the Communications Small Team Final Report
• Item 4: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Reaction to Program Management Tools Discussion
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Council Engagement with PDP Working Group Chairs
• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Update on Contracted Party House Abuse Subgroup Meetings with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group
• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Response to Update from ICANN org Implementation Update and interaction with ICANN Board 
• Item 8: Selection and Timeline of Next GNSO Liaison to the Governmental Advisory Committee
• Item 9: ANY OTHER BUSINESS
  • 9.1 - GNSO Chair Election Timeline Announcement
  • 9.2 - Updated Small Team Guidelines
  • 9.3 - Standing Predictability Implementation Review Team (“SPIRT”) Charter Drafting Team Update
  • 9.4 - Open Mic

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 18 January 2023 were posted on 02 February 2024
  • Minutes of the GNSO Council Meeting on 15 February 2024 were posted on  02 March 2024
• Item 4: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Reaction to Program Management Tools Discussion
  
  • During Council’s recent Strategic Planning Session (SPS), Council Leadership and GNSO Support Staff provided an overview of the available program management tools to educate new councilors on what tools are available and how to best utilize them. Council agreed to do a comprehensive and detailed review of the program management tools on a tri-annual basis. The Council agreed the tri-annual cadence aligned with the current ICANN conference schedule, and the first of these reviews was conducted during the Council’s Working Session at ICANN79.
  • Having performed a comprehensive review of the program management suite of tools during its working session, Council will now discuss lessons learned and potential suggestions for the next review at the ICANN80 working session.
• Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Council Engagement with PDP Working Group Chairs
  • During the Council’s 2023 Strategic Planning Session, the Council agreed that updates from PDP Working Group Chairs and Council liaisons should be more purpose-driven. 
  • In discussing this, GNSO Support Staff provided background information on the GNSO Policy Webinar. Specifically, the webinars began in 2018 and were designed to provide the Council with an opportunity to directly engage with PDP chairs regarding the progress of their working groups. This engagement previously took place at ICANN meetings during GNSO working sessions; however, when the ICANN meeting schedule was shortened, these interactions were moved to a webinar format in an effort to allow the engagement to continue.
  • After receiving this background information, some Councilors noted that if the purpose is for the Council to hear frank updates from Working Group Chairs, the webinar should be for Councilors rather than a larger community update. Additionally, Councilors reviewed the list of questions provided to Working Group Chairs in an effort to better understand Working Group progress and potential challenges (if any). 
  • Councilors attended the webinar, in its updated form, prior to ICANN79, and Council will discuss if the updates to the webinar format helped make the interactions more purpose driven or if further updates may be needed.
• Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Update on Contracted Party House Abuse Subgroup Meetings with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group
  • In February 2022, Council formed a small team of interested Council members to consider what policy efforts, if any, Council should consider undertaking to support the efforts already underway in the different parts of the community to tackle DNS abuse. 
  • The DNS Abuse Small Team preliminarily concluded that there is not enough information available to warrant further policy work at this time. Following the update from the DNS Abuse Small Team, Council representatives from the Registrar Stakeholder Group commented on the productive dialogue between Contracted Parties and the ICANN Community with respect to DNS Abuse and committed to continuing the dialogue with interested groups.
  • To that end, on 23 January 2024, the Registrar Stakeholder Group and the Registries Stakeholder Group DNS Abuse Subgroups met with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder group as the first in a planned series of outreach sessions to the ICANN Community regarding pain points with respect to DNS Abuse. The discussion touched on potential recommendations for solutions and potential future work.
  • Council will receive an update on this meeting and subsequent discussions with other groups.
• Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Response to Update from ICANN org Implementation Update and interaction with ICANN Board

  • During Council’s Working Session, ICANN org provided an overview of the implementation status of the projects that are currently in implementation. These include:

    • Privacy and Proxy Services Accreditation Implementation (PPSAI)

    • Preventative and Curative Rights Protections for Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)/International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs)

    • New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP

  • In addition, during Prep Week, the ICANN Board held a community engagement session where a question was posed that is relevant to the GNSO Council: how do we handle situations where it becomes clear that community-developed gTLD policies adopted by the Board are superseded by subsequent events or are otherwise not able to, or can no longer, resolve the problems they were designed to address
  • Council will have an opportunity to discuss the update from ICANN org and ICANN Board engagement session to determine next steps, if any.
• Item 9: ANY OTHER BUSINESS
  • 9.1 - GNSO Chair Election Timeline Announcement
  • 9.2 - Updated Small Team Guidelines
  • 9.3 - Standing Predictability Implementation Review Team (“SPIRT”) Charter Drafting Team Update

GNSO Council Meeting #3 of 2024 held on 6 Mar 2024 at 17:15 UTC http://tinyurl.com/yc8h56uu  

09:15 Los Angeles; 12:15 Washington DC; 17:15 London; 18:15 Paris; 20:15 Moscow; 04:15 Melbourne (Thursday)

Please check the ICANN79 Schedule for both in-person and remote participation details.

Non-Council members are welcome to attend the meeting or call as listen-only observers.

Records of 6 Mar 2024 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 6 Mar 2024 Meeting to ALAC

For brevity, I will just highlight a few things here. For some of the issues, you can glean a wider perspective from GNSO Council Mar 2024 Matters of Interest and/or from GNSO Council Mar 2024 Meeting Records.

1. DNS Abuse

• GNSO - GAC Bilateral agenda, where GNSO was asked on the status of the GNSO Council Small Team on DNS Abuse. We were able to clarify that the Small Team is not wound up but merely kept in abeyance until such time that Council had access to useful data which could inform a decision on whether gaps exists and how might those gaps be addressed. 

Action by ALAC Liaison

• •  Justine Chew to liaise with CPH on such DNS Abuse mitigation outreach opportunity with At-Large.

2. Next Round

• Council was informed that the Council Small Team Plus on Pending Subsequent Pending (SubPro) Recommendations (Small Team Plus) had conducted its Community Consultation during ICANN79 as planned, to socialize the Small Team Plus's work on the supplemental recommendations to address the rationale provided by the ICANN Board in declining to approve/adopt 10 (original) SubPro PDP recommendations covering 6 topics. 
• No comment or objection was received by the Small Team Plus during that ICANN79 session, so, the Small Team Plus is now able to refer the supplemental recommendations to the Council for approval in Council's April 2024 meeting. 

3. Privacy and Proxy Services Accreditation Implementation (PPSAI)

• Council acknowledged that the Implementation Review Team tasked with implementation of PPSAI recommendations that were adopted by the ICANN Board back in 2016, has been reactivated. 
• Question was asked if any or all of those recommendations are still fit for purpose given the introduction of GDPR and other newer developments since 2016, and whether this IRT might be compelled to try and implement outdated recommendations.
• The conclusion reached was that the IRT should be given the opportunity to review those recommendations and state if any one which are no longer fit for purpose, so that the right party (eg GNSO Council to take remedial steps to perhaps re-conduct a policy development process to update those recommendations).
• This is an example of the need for Topic 2 in the recent Board Consultation during ICANN79 Prep Week with the Community.

4. General Operations of GNSO/GNSO Council

Council discussed and/or noted following:

• GNSO Chair Election Timeline Announcement
• Updated Small Team Guidelines
• GNSO Council Aspirational Statement