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GNSO Council Meeting Remote Participation: https://icann.zoom.us/j/91968032290?pwd=N1pXV3ZvaGxZREVYMjhWemo3TVlPZz09
Councilors should notify the GNSO Secretariat in advance if they will not be able to attend and/or need a dial out call.
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Item 1: Administrative Matters (10 mins)
1.1 - Roll Call
1.2 - Updates to Statements of Interest
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Minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on 22 April 2021 were posted on 06 May 2021.
Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List (10 0 minutes)
2.1 - Review focus areas and provide updates on specific key themes / topics, to include review of Projects List and Action Item List.
Item 3: Consent Agenda (5 minutes)
Appointment of the GNSO Council liaison to the System for Standardized Access/Disclosure Operational Design Phase - Janis Karklins
Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - Adoption of the motion for the GNSO Council response to GAC ICANN70 Communique (5 minutes)
Here the Council will consider the formal adoption of the GNSO Council response to the GAC Communique that was developed by a small team of Council volunteers. Following non-objection on the mailing list, this response was conveyed to the ICANN Board on 7 May to allow for timely consideration by the Board of the Council's input. Following adoption, the Council's will confirm to the ICANN Board that this response has now been formally adopted.
4.1 Presentation of motion (Council leadership)
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4.3 Council vote (Voting Threshold: Simple Majority vote of each House)
Item 5: COUNCIL VOTE - Initiation of the Expedited Policy Development Process on Internationalized Domain Names and Approval of the EPDP Team Charter (20 25 minutes)
During the Council’s October 2020 meeting, the Council agreed to launch a call for volunteers and to establish a drafting team to develop a draft charter and an EPDP initiation request for the IDN Policy Track 2. The Council agreed at the time that an EPDP was appropriate for this topic because it has been “substantially scoped previously such that extensive, pertinent background information already exists” which at this stage, also includes the IDN-related Outputs from the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP that the Council approved on 18 February 2021.
That drafting team met for the first time on 8 December 2020 and since then has steadily made progress, recently completing its work prior to the May Council meeting. On 10 May 2021, the drafting team shared the Expedited Policy Development Process on Internationalized Domain Names Initiation Request and Charter with the Council. [LINKS TO BE PROVIDED WHEN AVAILABLE]
Here, the Council will also seek a better understanding of the RySG’s suggestions regarding the Operational Track, the RySG rationale for stopping it and continued deferring adoption of the IDN Implementation Guidelines v. 4.0.
Council will then Here, the Council will vote to initiate the Expedited Policy Development Process on Internationalized Domain Names, as well as to adopt the Charter.
5.1 - Brief presentation on the topic (Dennis Tan, Chair of drafting team)
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Taking this action is within the GNSO’s remit as outlined in ICANN’s Bylaws as the GNSO ‘shall be responsible for developing and recommending to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities of the GNSO as set forth in these Bylaws’ (Art.11.1). Furthermore, this action complies with the requirements set out in Annex A: GNSO Policy Development Process and Annex A-1: GNSO Expedited Policy Development Process of the ICANN Bylaws.
Item 6: COUNCIL BRIEFING - Briefing on SAC115 (30 minutes)
The topic of DNS abuse was not explicitly identified in the charter of the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP (SubPro). However, it was a topic of interest identified by the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team (CCT-RT), which made recommendations regarding the subject. In considering the CCT-RT Final Report, the ICANN Board took varying actions on 35 total recommendations, accepting some, passing through others, and placing some in a pending status (see scorecard). SubPro considered the CCT-RT recommendations related to DNS abuse (i.e., 14, 15, and 16) though they remain in a “Pending” status” (with the exception of recommendation 16, which was partially passed through) and have not been approved by the ICANN Board.
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6.2 – Briefing and Council discussion (SSAC members names to be added upon receipt)Rod Rasmussen and Jeff Bedser) - slide deck
6.3 – Next steps
Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - IGO Work Track Update (15 minutes)
On 18 April 2019, the Councilvotedto approve recommendations 1-4 of the Final Report from the IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms PDP WG. The Council also resolved to not approve Recommendation 5 and, ”directs the Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs (RPM) PDP to consider, as part of its Phase 2 work, whether an appropriate policy solution can be developed that is generally consistent with Recommendations 1, 2, 3 & 4 of the PDP Final Report and:
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7.1 – Update (John McElwaine, GNSO Council Liaison & Chris DispainDisspain, WT Chair) IGO April Package
7.2 – Council discussion
7.3 – Next steps
Item 8: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Status Update Regarding EPDP Phase 2A (10 minutes)
On 21 October 2020, the GNSO Council approved the initiation of EPDP Phase 2A, to examine the topics of legal/natural and feasibility of unique contacts. In doing so, the Council required that:
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8.1 – Introduction of topic (Philippe Fouquart, GNSO Council liaison & Keith Drazek, EPDP-P2A Chair) EPDP P2A April Package
8.2 – Council discussion
8.3 – Next steps
Item 9: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Accuracy Scoping Team (15 minutes)
During its October 2020 meeting, the GNSO Council confirmed its intent to launch a scoping team on the topic of accuracy based on a proposal from the previous Council leadership team (see here for the proposal). On 4 November 2020, the GNSO Council wrote to ICANN org, requesting the preparation of a briefing document outlining both the existing accuracy requirements and programs as well as the impact that GDPR has had on implementing and enforcing the identified requirements and programs. This briefing is intended to inform an accuracy scoping team that the GNSO Council envisioned initiating, which would be tasked with furthering the community’s understanding of the issue and assist in scoping and defining the issue (see here). On 10 December 2020, ICANN org responded to confirm its understanding of the request and to commit to delivering that briefing by 26 February 2021. ICANN org timely delivered the briefing. In addition to the briefing providing an overview of accuracy requirements and programs and the impact of GDPR on these, ICANN org also included a suggestion that a study to measure accuracy of registration data might be beneficial. In parallel to the request for the briefing, ICANN SO/AC/SG/Cs were requested to start thinking about whether their groups would be interested to participate in a scoping team once created. To date, the BC, ISPCP, RySG, IPC and GAC have expressed an interest and identified potential volunteers with relevant knowledge and expertise. The Council discussed this briefing and potential next steps during its Extraordinary Meeting on 08 April 2021.
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9.1 – Introduction of topic (Council Leadership) Presentation slide deck
9.2 – Council discussion
9.3 – Next steps
Item 10: ANY OTHER BUSINESS (5 minutes)
10.1 - Presentation of GNSO Council sessions for ICANN71 and their set up
10.2 - Next steps regarding the proposed Framework for Continuous Improvement
10.3 - Next steps regarding Working Group Self Assessments drawing on results of RPMs and SubPro surveys
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