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Item 7. COUNCIL DISCUSSION – Confirmation of Voting on Initiating the GNSO’s Section 16 Process for Amending Approved GNSO Policy Recommendations Relating to Certain Red Cross Movement Names (15 minutes)

At ICANN58 in Copenhagen in March 2017, representatives from the GNSO (including the GNSO Council chairs) and the GAC held a dialogue, facilitated by former Board member Bruce Tonkin, to discuss possible ways of reconciling inconsistent GAC advice and GNSO policy recommendations relating to National Society names of the Red Cross Movement and the two names of the international components of the Movement (http://sched.co/9xr2). Following that discussion, the ICANN Board passed a resolution requesting that the GNSO Council initiate the process outlined in Section 16 of the GNSO’s Policy Development Process (PDP) Manual, which sets forth the requisite steps for amending policy recommendations that have been approved by the GNSO Council but not yet approved by the ICANN Board (https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/prelim-report-2017-03-16-en#2.e.i). The Board’s request related to the 190 Red Cross National Society names and the two international movement names and a limited defined set of their variants. The Council initiated electronic voting on 3 May 2017.

Here the Council will discuss the outcome of the electronic voting, as well as the anticipated next steps as it relates to initiating Section 16, together with the chair of the PDP WG, Thomas Rickert.

7.1 – Council discussion

7.2 – Next Steps

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