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Dublin Meeting Planning

Volker Greimann / Jonathan Robinson

Please complete the Buenos Aires Meeting Survey: https://s.zoomerang.com/s/PR55KC2. (COMPLETED - for results see https://www.surveymonkey.net/results/SM-3MMBMBJY/)

Council Induction and Development session on the last Friday of the Dublin meeting. Communicate to all the SG/C groups, as well as to in coming councilors to be prepared for this session. (COMPLETED)

Arrange for a facilitator for the Council Development and Induction session in Dublin on Friday 23 October 2015. (COMPLETED - Thomas Rickert has indicated he is willing and available to serve as a facilitator for this session)

Formally communicate to parting councilors that they are welcome to attend the Council Development and Induction. (COMPLETED)

Keep the Council regularly informed of developments in the CWG on Enhancing ICANN Accountability. Councilors to take on the responsibility to keep their groups informed. For further information, see https://community.icann.org/x/ogDxAg).

Encourage GNSO SG and C’s to review the notes from the Paris meeting.  

 Encourage GNSO SG and C’s to provide input to the public comment forum once it opens.

ON HOLD

Jonathan to explore with Patrik Falstrom the options for a SSAC liaison to the GNSO and/or visa versa.

ON HOLD

Alan and Avri volunteered to scope out the issue of voting thresholds in relation to implementation changes to adopted PDP recommendations for Council review. The Council will consider at a future meeting whether or not to refer this item to the SCI for further review.

The timing of GAC Advice and how that fits into the policy making cycle as current cycle is problematic as GAC advice is developed in parallel to policy making efforts going on as well as during discussions at ICANN meetings. GAC Advice is often a mixture of policy and implementation, which should be reviewed and parsed by the GNSO since otherwise, it draws the Board into implementation. Typically, the GNSO never responds to the GAC Advice. A possible approach is for the community (led by the Council) to separate GAC Advice into issues of policy and implementation and then to come up with a GNSO response. Consideration of this approach could be a topic for discussion at the first GNSO Council meeting after an ICANN meeting. Policy advice could be further broken down into “in scope” and “out of scope” topics for ICANN policy and thereafter, what, if anything, the GNSO plans to undertake to address policy topics identified. This approach will permit the Board to then go back to the GAC to indicate what policy issues are being worked on. Dealing with the communiqué is a suggested topic for discussion in the joint GAC-GNSO meeting during ICANN 52. The Council had an initial exchange of views on this topic during its meeting on 13/11.

• GNSO Council Chair to communicate the GNSO Review of Buenos Aires GAC Communiqué to the ICANN Board

• GNSO Council Chair to inform the GAC Chair as well as the GAC-GNSO Consultation Group of the communication between the GNSO Council and the ICANN Board. 

ccNSO and GNSO Council chairs to open up dialogue with GAC chairs in order to see how best work in this area can be improved. Draft letter is being prepared.

Encourage GNSO SG  & C’s to provide input to the public comment forum (deadline for comments is 6 September - see https://www.icann.org/public-comments/rds-prelim-issue-2015-07-13-en).

Diarize a timely review date for the function of GNSO Liaison to the Governmental Advisory Committee (All)

Key dates for consideration: (Staff)

• Budget cycle in which to apply for future funding for the next year's funding.
• Set a date by which to review the function

Publish the proposed GNSO Chair Election Timetable. (COMPLETED)

Place on agenda for formal consideration and approval at September Council meeting.