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1.1 Roll Call
1.2 Statement of interest updates

1.3 Review/amend agenda
1.4. Note the status of minutes for the previous Council meeting per the GNSO Operating Procedures:
Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting 5 June 2014, were posted as approved on 25 June 2014

Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List (10 mins)

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Comments or questions arising.

Item 3: Consent agenda (0 mins)

Confirmation of Becky Burr (ccNSO) and John Berard (GNSO) as the permanent co-chairs for the Cross Community  Working Group (CWG) on a Framework for CWG Operating Principles. 

Item 54: MOTION – Approval of a charter for a PDP working group for the IGO & INGO access to curative rights protection mechanisms (10 mins)

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The draft Working Group Charter is appended as Annex 3 to the Final Issue Report and was delivered to the GNSO Council on 25 May 2014. Here the Council will vote on whether or not to approve the Charter.

54.1 – Present the motion (Thomas Rickert / Mary Wong)
5 4.2 – Discussion
5 4.3 – Vote (Threshold; One third of each house or two thirds of one house)

Item 45: MOTION – Consideration and evaluation of the New gTLD programme   (15 mins)

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In this item, the Council will discuss and vote on a motion to take steps to consider, and evaluate the first round of the new gTLD program in order to decide on what, if any, future policy work needs to be undertaken.

45.1 Present the motion (Bret Fausett)
4 5.2 Discussion
4 5.3 Vote (Threshold: Simple majority)

Item 56: Discussion – Letter from the NGPC regarding protection of IGO-INGO identifiers in all gTLDs  (15 mins)

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Here, the GNSO Council will consider whether or not to, and potentially the route to, modifying or amending our approved policy prior to adoption by the ICANN Board as provided for under Section 16 of the GNSO Operating Procedures.

76.1 - Discussion
7 6.2 - Next steps

Item 67: Update – Update on the Uniformity of Reporting Final Issue Report Resolution (15 mins)

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ICANN’s Contractual Compliance team will present the past activities and results of the Contractual Compliance three-year plan and future efforts to evolve the contractual compliance function with regard to metrics collection and reporting.  The GNSO Council will deliberate whether further attention to this issue is warranted.  Note, that the second resolution launched what is now known as the non-PDP, Data & Metrics for Policy Making WG that is currently executing against its approved charter.

67.1 – Update (Maguy Serad)
6 7.2 – Discussion
6 7.3 – Next steps

Item 78: DISCUSSION – A cross-community working group to develop a transfer process for the IANA stewardship role (15 mins)

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An invitation to participate in a drafting team to has now been drafted and sent to all ICANN SO & ACs. Here the Council will take the opportunity, as manager of the policy development processes of the GNSO, to provide direction on the formation, development and work of a CWG on the NTIA transition.
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8.1 - Discussion
7 8.2 - Next steps

Item 89: UPDATE – On the work of the GNSO Review Working Party (10 mins)

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The SIC envisages that once a final report is issued and the Board takes action on it, as appropriate, the GNSO Review Working Party will also coordinate with the GNSO community to prepare an Implementation Plan and champion implementation of improvement activities.

89.1 – Update (Jennifer Wolfe)
8 9.2 – Discussion
8 9.3 – Next stepsstep

Item 910: UPDATE – On the work of the GAC / GNSO Consultation Group (10 mins)

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In particular, the Consultation Group will seek support for the overall direction of its work and specifically, the decision to recruit and appoint a GNSO Liaison to GAC as well as the selection process for such a liaison. The Consultation Group envisages that the actual appointment will take place as soon as possible and, in any event, before ICANN 51. Moreover that such an appointment will be subject to a motion before the GNSO Council.

910.1 – Update (Jonathan Robinson)
9 10.2 – Discussion
9 10.3 – Next steps

Item 1011: Open microphone (10 mins)

Item 1112:  Any Other Business (5 mins)

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4.4.3 The GNSO Secretariat will administer, record, and tabulate absentee votes according to these procedures and will provide reasonable means for transmitting and authenticating absentee ballots, which could include voting by telephone, e- mail, web-based interface, or other technologies as may become available.
4.4.4 Absentee balloting does not affect quorum requirements. (There must be a quorum for the meeting in which the vote is initiated.)
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