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Motion: Reappointment of GNSO Council Liaison to the Governmental Advisory Committee
Submitted by Pam Little
Seconded by
Whereas:
- As part of the discussions within ICANN between the GNSO and GAC on how to facilitate early engagement of the GAC in GNSO policy development activities, the option of appointing a GNSO liaison to the GAC was initially piloted in FY15 and F16, and subsequently confirmed by the GNSO Council as a permanent role at the start of FY17.
- The GNSO Council appointed Julf Helsingius to the role of GNSO Liaison to the Governmental Advisory Committee on 24 October 2018, until the end of the ICANN AGM 2019.
- The GNSO Council has an obligation to review the role annually and reconfirm the appointment unless the review indicates otherwise and/or the Liaison has indicated that he/she is no longer available to continue in this role, in which case a new selection process will take place.
- The GNSO Council leadership has met with Julf Helsingius to discuss his experience and to confirm that he is willing to continue in this role.
- The GNSO Council has reviewed the annual report prepared by the GNSO Liaison to the GAC (see https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/gac-liaison-annual-02oct19-en.pdf).
Resolved:
- The GNSO Council hereby reappoints Julf Helsingius to the role of GNSO Liaison to the Governmental Advisory Committee until the end of the ICANN AGM 2020.
- The GNSO Council leadership team will inform the GAC leadership team accordingly, and will co-ordinate with Julf Helsingius as well as the GAC leadership team and GAC Secretariat on next steps and the continued successful implementation of this role.
Motion: Approval of new IANA Naming Function SLA: Publication of LGRs
Submitted by Pam Little
Seconded by
Whereas,
- The Customer Standing Committee (CSC) and Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) recently agreed on a procedure to amend SLAs (see: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-naming-function-sla-amendment-process-28mar19-en.pdf).
- Recently, the CSC and PTI have agreed to establish a set of new SLAs for the publication of the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) tables and Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs) in the IDN Practices Repository (see https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/new-slas-publication-lgr-idn-change-analysis-24oct19-en.pdf for the SLA change request: new SLA for Publication of LGRs).
- The GNSO Council was notified on 18 October 2019 (see https://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/new-slas-publication-lgr-idn-change-analysis-24oct19-en.pdf) that this change request is now ready for approval by the ccNSO and GNSO Councils, which is required before implementation will start.
- The GNSO Council has reviewed the proposed SLA change request and discussed the proposed SLA change with the ccNSO Council during its joint session at ICANN66.
Resolved,
- The GNSO Council approves the SLA change request: new SLA for publication of LGRs (https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/new-slas-publication-lgr-idn-change-analysis-24oct19-en.pdf) and will inform the ccNSO accordingly.
- The GNSO Chair will work on a joint communication with the ccNSO Council to inform the CSC that the SLA change request: new SLA for publication of LGRs has been approved and should now be implemented.