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Responsible Council Member (if applicable)

Responsible Staff member (if applicable)

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Status / Action Item

Buenos Aires Meeting Planning

David Cake / Jonathan Robinson

COMPLETED

CWG To Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions

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The final CWG-Stewardship proposal has been submitted to the GNSO Council and will be considered for adoption at the GNSO Council meeting on 24 June.

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).

Councillors and members of the respective groups are encouraged to assist their groups to provide comments and questions during the public comment period (COMPLETED)

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.

Mason Cole to prepare an update for the GAC/GNSO Consultation Group on the process to set expectations for the GAC about the Council engagement on the Communiqués. (COMPLETED - discussed as part of the GNSO-GAC meeting)

GNSO Council chair and vice chairs and Mason Cole to meet with the GAC Chair and Vice Chairs to inform them of the potential process being undertaken by the Council. (COMPLETED)

Add Stephanie Perrin to the group of volunteers, Carlos Raúl Gutierrez and David Cake in Volker Greimann's absence. Anyone who would like to join the group is welcome. (COMPLETED)

Check the latest version of the template

• Improve the template  - provide comments via the Council mailing list
• Populate the template - provide comments via the Council mailing list

Although the timeline has been missed for the Singapore Communiqué, finish the current template and share it with the GAC and the ICANN Board as a test exercise.

Councillors are encouraged to participate via the Council mailing list.

At the ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires in June 2015 set definite timelines for delivering the work.

COMPLETED

Recirculate the update that Marika Konings provided (completed) and comment on the Council mailing list.

COMPLETED

Further discussion on the Council mailing list to determine the response to Steve Crocker's letter

Provide written update to clarify the status of the drafting team (Jonathan)

Auction proceeds will be a topic for community discussion at the High Interest Session and a separate workshop has been planned on Wednesday 24 June.

Provide questions and comments for these sessions (all).

Convey that no objections were recorded to the interpretation of the section on observers in the CCWG IG Charter.

Communicate on the mailing list that Carlos Raul Gutierrez is appointed Council liaison to the CWG.

The gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group to talk directly to the Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Country & Territory Names as TLDs (RySG Councillors)

Council to discuss the issue with the GAC – Council leaders commit to commence the communication with the GAC leadership (Chair / Staff) - COMPLETED

Request guidance from the Council by posting the substantive issues to the Council list (Heather Forrest) - COMPLETED

Heather Forrest to track the outcomes of the discussion and ensure that the Council is responding to the request (Heather Forrest) - In progress - request sent by Heather

Call for additional GNSO participation to the Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Country & Territory Names as TLDs (Staff) - COMPLETED

COMPLETED

Determine the scope of  GNSO GAC related issues which could be worked through by the Council leaders and Staff as agenda topics for the joint GAC GNSO meetings in Buenos Aires (Chair / Vice Chairs / Staff)

Topic for future Council discussion -Introduction of changes to Registry agreements through private negotiations relative to the Policy Development Process and whether this is appropriate.

COMPLETED

Review documentation before Buenos Aires for discussion at the Council and discussion group meeting.

COMPLETED

Urgent request to provide drafting team with feedback on the initial proposal especially with regard to Meeting B before the proposals go the other Supporting Organisations and Advisory Committees for comments and input.

COMPLETED

Councillors are encouraged to review the GNSO Review report (All)

Inform Staff if Stakeholder Groups/Constituencies wish to meet with the Westlake team and the GNSO Review Working Party during Constituency Day in Buenos Aires so that time slots can be arranged.

COMPLETED

As there is already an informal discussion group formed, Mary to resend information about the group and the progress it has made to help spur progress

Communicate to all groups, including NomCom that the GNSO Council development session will take place on Friday after the ICANN meeting in Dublin.