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Helsinki Meeting Planning

Donna Austin, Volker Greimann

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James to report back to to Patrik on options discussed on Council mailing list:

• Change the format of the GNSO/SSAC interactions, post topics in advance and promote a more free flowing discussion.  Come prepared with questions, and encourage SSAC to tailor their materials & updates to active GNSO work.
• Leverage the overlap – encourage members who participate in both communities, and ICANN Staff, to highlight mutual areas of interest and flag for discussion by GNSO/SSAC.  For example,some SSAC resources are public, which would allow one or two Councilors to volunteer as informal liaisons (e.g. keeping up with the lists & new publications, and reporting back to Council with any material topics).
• Create an “SSAC Consultation” step as part of the start up activities of new PDPs.  Perhaps this could be merged with the existing SG/C comment/consultation steps?
• No strong consensus to establish a formal liaison at this time, but keep this path open if future circumstances warrant the position.

Letter received from Cherine Chalaby (http://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/chalaby-to-robinson-15jan15-en.pdf) noting that the NGPC plans to talk further with the GAC and IGOs at ICANN 52 and would share any updates immediately following those meetings.

At ICANN55, representatives of the Red Cross met with the GNSO Council leadership to discuss possible next steps. The Red Cross representatives briefed the Council during the meeting on 14 April on the scope of the Red Cross’ continuing request for permanent protections for those of its national society and international movement identifiers that are not currently covered by the policy recommendations that have been adopted by the GNSO Council and the ICANN Board. Following this briefing, a draft letter has been prepared to be sent to the ICANN Board on this topic.

Staff to schedule and conduct webinar detailing history and status of work on Red Cross and IGO protections for the GNSO Council as soon as possible. (COMPLETED)

This topic was further discussed during the GNSO meeting with individual board members in Helsinki. Specific action items coming out of that meeting:

• Board – develop decision tree regarding IGO/INGO, which includes consideration of curative rights
• Staff – send IGO/INGO/RCRC comparison chart to Board

• Carlos Gutierrez to reach out to CCWG-IG co-chairs to request that progress report is provided to Council for review and discussion at Helsinki meeting (COMPLETED)
• Council to continue to discuss preferred actions and next steps with regard to ongoing reporting requirements and nature of structure of the CCWG-IG

• Paul McGrady to provide draft of Council comment on the Draft New Bylaws for Council review as soon as possible (public comment period closes on 21 May); comment to note that Bylaws should take into account all comments that had been sent in by the GNSO Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies in relation to the CCWG-Accountability recommendations (COMPLETED)
• Council will discuss additional obligations created under the new Bylaws for the GNSO in Helsinki (staff to provide table/paper as discussion aid) COMPLETED

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