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Registration Directory Service (RDS) - Program Management
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| Council Leadership to communicate that Council has reached agreement in principle that the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) is the proper mechanism to address the Temporary Specification to the ICANN Board.
| Council tobegin some initial EPDP processes
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- accuracy, legal vs. natural, and other remainder items from the EPDP) and outline the next steps for the EPDP for the GNSO Council to consider; GNSO Council leadership to circulate the framework document prior to the June Council meeting; Rafik to inform Janis about the upcoming framework document.
- Keith to develop a draft GNSO Council response to the SSAC letter, correcting any inaccuracies.
- Staff (Berry) to develop a PCR for the EPDP to be reviewed/discussed during the June Council meeting.
- EPDP Phase 1 Recommendation 7: GNSO Council needs to further discuss the Board letter about the potential impasse concerning the implementation of EPDP Phase 1 Recommendation 7, and based on the discussion, draft a response to the ICANN Board.
- GNSO Council leadership to instruct the Council Liaison to the IRT to engage with the IRT in order to understand the nature of the impasse regarding Phase 1 Recommendation 7, if it exists, and the next steps to address such impasse.
- GNSO Councilors to review the draft letter and provide feedback on Council list by Thursday, 28 May COB; Pam to propose appropriate revision to the letter to reflect the GNSO Council liaison’s engagement with the IRT.
- EPDP Phase 1 Recommendation 27: GNSO Council needs to solicit input from SGs/Cs on the staff proposal, and based on the feedback received, determine whether the staff proposal should be adopted and if so, how the relevant actions should be moved forward.
- Registry Directory Service Review Team Recommendations: GNSO Council needs to solicit input from SGs/Cs on the two recommendations passed by the ICANN Board, and based on the feedback received, draft a response to the ICANN Board.
- GNSO Council leadership to review the draft staff document and consider circulation on the Council list.
- WHOIS Procedure Implementation Advisory Group (WPIAG): GNSO Council needs to solicit input from SGs/Cs and determine whether/how to initiate the work of the WPIAG (see charter).
- GNSO Council leadership to review the draft staff document and consider circulation on the Council list.
GNSO Prioritization
Status colour Blue title IN PROGRESS
- Keith Drazek to encourage councilors to share the survey feedback received from their groups on the Council mailing list (missing IPC and ISPCP)
- GNSO Council, in collaboration with GNSO Support Staff, to develop a framework of prioritization for upcoming GNSO policy work based on the input received from GNSO Councilors and their respective stakeholder groups/constituencies and input from the broader ICANN community/ICANN Board.
- GNSO Support Staff to research and incorporate the deliberation on the Internationalized Registration Data (IRD) issue in the prioritization list, as appropriate.
- GNSO Councilors to continue consulting with their respective groups in preparation for further Council discussion and/or decision during the March 2020 Council meeting.
- GNSO Councilors to review the draft 2020 work plan and provide input on the Council list by 1 May 2020; next steps regarding the work plan are expected to be discussed during the May 2020 Council meeting
- Council leadership and staff to provide a more detailed, actionable GNSO work prioritization plan and present the update during the June Council meeting.
- Staff (Berry & Steve) to update the project list by adding projects such as the Specific Reviews and identifying relevant parties that are primarily responsible for that work.
Report from the Transfer Policy Scoping Team
Status colour Blue title IN PROGRESS
- GNSO Councilors to review the Report from the Transfer Policy Scoping Team and engage with their respective SG/C in preparation for the Council vote on the request for an Issue Report during the May 2020 Council meeting.
PDP3.0 Final Report
- Council to determine next steps, which could include 1) requesting Q&A with MSSI; 2) convening a drafting team and drafting a letter, and/or; 3) filing a public comment to one or both of the short-term and long-term public comment proceedings.
Revised SSC Charter
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- ICANN Staff to send the updated Charter to the Stakeholder Groups/Constituencies and Nominating Committee (NomCom) appointees on the GNSO Council and remind SG/Cs/NomCom appointees that they should reconfirm their SSC representatives within three weeks following the 2018 Annual General Meeting.
- Council Leadership to confirm at its earliest convenience whether a member of the GNSO Council leadership team will serve as an ex-officio member of the SSC and communicate this decision to the SSC.
Incoming PDP co-chair
Status colour Green title COMPLETED
- ICANN Staff to communicate Council approval of the appointment of Brian Beckham as an additional co-chair for the Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs Policy Development Process Working Group.
Exiting PDP Chairs
Status colour Green title COMPLETED
- Council Leadership to prepare note of thanks for Chuck Gomes for his work on the gTLD Registration Data Services PDP, as well as his overall contributions to the GNSO.
- Council Leadership to prepare note of thanks for Phil Corwin for his work on the IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms PDP.
- Council Leadership to prepare note of thanks for J. Scott Evans for his work on the Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs PDP.
Timing of ICANN bylaw mandated reviews
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- Council to await paper from Goran Marby and team to then consider next steps. (Note, public comment period on short term and long term options to adjust the timeline for reviews are now open - see https://www.icann.org/public-comments)
Status colour Blue title IN PROGRESS
- GNSO Support Staff to work with the GNSO Council leadership on the deployment of improvements based on the effective time frame proposed by the PDP 3.0 Small Team.
- GNSO Council to carry out the other future action items in the “resolved” clauses at appropriate time, as directed in the motion.
Managing IDN Variants TLDs
- Staff to consolidate input and comments into a Google document.
- Staff to propose next steps (e.g., identify goal for ICANN62 and plan backwards).
- Council to review and provide feedback on PDP 3.0 Discussion Paper by 8 June.
Heather Forrest Donna Austin Rafik Dammak
SubPro/RPM Consolidated timeline Status colour Blue title IN PROGRESS
- Council liaisons to the respective PDP WGs to review Sunday Working Session and extract notes and action items.
- Council liaisons to the respective PDP WGs to work with PDP WG leadership to expand timeline to include potential implementation steps/scenarios.
- Council liaisons to WGs to scope the issue and understand requirements/dependencies between the two PDP WGs.
Donna Austin Paul McGrady k drazek
Board request regarding emojis
Status colour Blue title IN PROGRESS
- Council Leadership to send response to the Board to acknowledge receipt of request.
- Staff to summarize Board resolution and SSAC Advice for small team of Councilors to consider.
- Small team of Councilors (Michele Neylon, Martin Silva Valent, Tatiana Tropina and Philippe Fouquart as the GNSO liaison to the ccNSO) to liaise with the SSAC in responding to Board resolution.
- Small team of Councilors to ensure that they coordinate with the ccNSO in addressing the Board request regarding emoji.
Michele Neylon Martin P Valent Tatiana Tropina Philippe Fouquart
ICANN62 Meeting Planning
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- Council Leadership (Heather Forrest and Rafik Dammak) to attend ICANN62 planning meeting, communicate concerns raised by Council, and report back to the Council.
- Council to develop plan for conducting outreach at ICANN meetings, especially for the Policy Forum.
- Following confirmation of Cross Community/High Interest Topics and placement in schedule, Council leadership to review and finalise GNSO Schedule together with staff.
Heather Forrest Rafik Dammak Donna Austin
Marika Konings Nathalie Peregrine
CSC and IFR Review
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- Donna Austin and Philippe Fouquart to lead small team to suggest ways to avoid overlap between reviews; coordinate with the ccNSO in doing so.
Donna Austin Philippe Fouquart
CSC Charter Review
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Review of the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP)
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- GNSO Council to consider next steps, timing and provide guidance to ICANN Org on if, how, and when the review of the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) should take place, factoring in ongoing discussion on the post-implementation policy review framework as well as the transfer issue that is being considered by the Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Implementation Review Team.
- ICANN Staff to follow up with Councilors who raised questions / issues during the call (Darcy Southwell, Michele Neylon, and Pam Little) to confirm whether these were addressed or whether there are remaining concerns and/or input that they want to provide on the suggested scope of the IRTP review.
- If no remaining concerns and/or input is provided, ICANN Staff to proceed with preparation of the Post-Implementation Policy Status Report for delivery to the GNSO Council, if possible by end of June 2018.
Updated Charter for the Cross Community Engagement Group on Internet Governance
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- GNSO Council to seek clarification about the level of resources expected to be allocated to the Cross Community Engagement Group on Internet Governance.
- GNSO Council Liaison to the ccNSO to coordinate with the Country Codes Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) as the Cross Community Engagement Group on Internet Governance seeks to resolve concerns identified by the ccNSO Council.
- GNSO Council to determine if it will serve as a Chartering Organization, if the Cross Community Engagement Group mechanism supports Chartering Organizations.
Heather Forrest Donna Austin Rafik Dammak Philippe Fouquart
Drafting Team on charter related to the next steps for the ICANN Procedure of Handling Whois conflicts with Privacy
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- GNSO Council, after having considered the 1 August letter from Akram Atallah and receiving a brief update from GDD on its 24 August Council meeting, should determine next steps for reviewing the Whois Procedure.
- Drafting team members to share draft charter and identified questions in charter with respective SG/Cs for feedback, following which the drafting team will review this input and finalize the charter for GNSO Council consideration.
- Council to consider adoption of charter at its upcoming meetingI
- ICANN Staff to circulate a call for volunteers on or after 1 June 2018 to the GNSO Stakeholder Groups, with the request for each Stakeholder Group to appoint up to 3 members to the Implementation Advisory Group (IAG). The call for volunteers should also be more widely circulated to seek volunteers to serve as participants and observers to the IAG.
Michele Neylon Paul McGrady k drazek Stephanie Perrin Pam Little
Marika Konings Nathalie Peregrine
GNSO members for the ICANN Accountability and Transparency (ATRT3) Review Team- Staff to develop options paper to support small group efforts
- GNSO Chair to send message to Council list to expand volunteer pool expertise beyond Council. Small team to consider and propose scope of holistic IDN review, prior to outreach with ccNSO. (Volunteers: Rubens Kuhl, Maxim Alzoba, Philippe Fouquart, Edmon Chung, Michele Neylon) (Small team believes it has requisite expertise and adequate volunteers)
- GNSO Chair to email Katrina Sataki to inform her of immediate next steps and willingness determine the best coordination method between the GNSO and ccNSO.
- Once GNSO small team is able to gain an understanding of the scope of effort and potential vehicle for resolution, ICANN staff to schedule call to identify structure for coordination between the GNSO and ccNSO. GNSO and ccNSO to identify where coordination is and is NOT needed.
- ICANN staff to reach out to Maarten Simon and Philippe Fouquart to determine if they are willing to lead action items above. (Both Maarten and Philippe are members of the scoping team)
- ICANN staff to investigate format for JIG and see if it may be fit for purpose. (Upon review, this letter concerning the closure of the JIG was found. It will be discussed by the Council small team.)
- ICANN Staff to ensure that GNSO liaison(s) are assigned to the IDN ccPDP, when the ccNSO initiates that effort
- ICANN Staff to investigate who (e.g., Council liaison, other)
- Council leadership to support coordination between SubPro leadership and ccNSO to discuss string similarity.
- GNSO Councilors to review the IDN Scoping team Recommendation Report by the March 2020 Council meeting; Keith to send a reminder to the Council list.
- GNSO Council to use the revised charter template and other related PDP 3.0 work products to develop a draft charter for a future PDP/EPDP for the IDN policy effort, consider potential overlap of IDN PDP with other GNSO PDPs , and report to the GNSO Council on whether these PDP 3.0 work products help achieve the intended outcomes.
Evolution of the Multi stakeholder Model of Governance
Status colour Blue title IN PROGRESS
- Staff to investigate the anticipated timing, funding and expected deliverables for the Evolution of the Multi stakeholder Model of Governance project.
- ICANN staff to invite Brian Cute to a future Council meeting
- Rafik Dammak to invite Brian Cute to future PDP 3.0 meeting to make sure to not create overlapping work on the Evolution of the MSM
- PDP3.0 small team to draft response to Public Comment and submit to Council for review. Consider inviting Brian once the Public Comment closes.
- GNSO Council to organize a community sharing session about PDP 3.0 implementation work that aligns with the MSM evolution project before or during ICANN69 (specific timing/format TBD)
- Keith to circulate the WS2 Implementation Assessment Report to the GNSO Council to kick off the discussion about CCWG-Accountability WS2 next steps.
- GNSO Council leadership to raise the “CCWG-Accountability WS2 next steps” topic during the next SO/AC leadership meeting and propose the idea of developing a joint letter to seek further communications from ICANN org regarding the progress.
- GNSO Council leadership, in collaboration with interested volunteers (e.g., James Gannon, Philippe Fouquart, and Tom Dale), to tee up the Council discussion of the CCWG-Accountability Workstream 2 topic for a future Council meeting.
- GNSO Council to reach out to the ccNSO, at an appropriate time, to discuss potential next steps to address DNS abuse issues.
- GNSO Council leadership to review the documents wiki page and consider which items need to be kept: https://community.icann.org/x/zIAzBw
- Keith to remind the GNSO Councilors about the mandatory attendance in the Pre ICANN68 GNSO Policy Briefing Webinar.
EPDP 2 team request for input on data accuracy
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- Keith Drazek to send an email to the GNSO Council mailing list regarding the possible next steps regarding the data accuracy issue, with the aim to provide a response to the EPDP Team by Friday, 13 March
2020 Strategic Planning Session (SPS) Action Items
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The role and responsibilities of the GNSO Council as a member of the Empowered Community
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Council to familiarize themselves with recommendations in preparation for consideration of Final Report.
Heather Forrest Rafik Dammak Donna Austin
IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms
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ICANN Board Temporary Policy Proposal
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Heather Forrest Rafik Dammak Donna Austin
Consensus Policy Implementation Framework
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- Councilors to review proposed amendments to the Consensus Policy Implementation Framework (CPIF) and if desired, disseminate to their respective Stakeholder Groups/Constituencies. The goal is to ensure feedback is returned to ICANN org in a timely manner and allow for them to provide a proposed final version by the end of July.
- Councilors to review Post Implementation Consensus Policy Review Framework (PICPRF) process diagram and complete survey by 18 May (see https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/postimplreview).
Heather Forrest Rafik Dammak Donna Austin
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2019 Strategic Planning Session (SPS) Action Items
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- Council leadership to consider adding references to relevant ICANN Bylaw sections for agenda items on the GNSO Council agenda, following the example of the ICANN Board.
- Council to discuss with the ICANN Board on Day 3 what can be done to facilitate understanding and communication between the GNSO Council and the ICANN Board – may require more than 1 hour at every ICANN meeting.
- Council to consider whether existing mechanisms provide for sufficient opportunity to conduct “emergency” consultations to allow for GNSO Chair to gather input on certain topics and/or decisions that need to be taken.
- Council members to provide leadership team with feedback on leadership team’s performance & actions on a regular basis.
- Current Council Chair (Heather Forrest) to provide report at the end of her term outlining main challenges / concerns / recommendations in fulfilling the role.
- Council to consider whether Council leadership should have a contract / letter of appointment that would outline role, responsibilities and expectations.
- Staff to update liaison document based on input provided and circulate it to the Council for further review and discussion.
- Council to reconfirm liaisons to PDP WG, IRTs and other projects once agreement has been achieved on the role and responsibilities of liaisons.
- Council leadership to reach out to SG/C leadership to notify them of the changes made to the GNSO Operating Procedures and the requirements for SG/Cs to develop supporting procedures and processes.
- Staff to work on first draft of templates for motions related to EC powers as highlighted in the staff report (see https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/proposed-revisionsgnso-op-procedures-bylaws-staff-report-16may17-en.pdf).
- Council leadership to develop clear timeline for action items listed hereunder as well as who will be responsible for delivering on these.
- Engage with PDP leadership teams at ICANN61 during GNSO weekend sessions to discuss state of work, identify challenges and possible paths forward. Council leadership team to review ICANN61 schedule and carve out time for this discussion.
- Develop a white paper on incremental changes to the PDP that outlines these discussions as well as main findings of staff discussion paper to engage the broader community in this conversation.
- Donna Austin to share comments on scheduling of cross-community discussions with the GNSO Council.
- Staff to keep project timing planning document up to date and share it with the Council prior to every ICANN meeting to facilitate review and oversight of timelines. Explore whether there is a more dynamic way in which the document can be publicly shared.
- Council leadership to reach out to leadership of Curative Rights and Reconvened WG on RCRC to see whether it is feasible to deliver Final Reports within 6-month timeframe.
- Council leadership to notify ICANN Board with regards to PDPs that are expected to deliver to finalize their report shortly so that concerns or issues can be raised prior to GNSO Council consideration.
- Council leadership to request update from GNSO-appointed members to RDS Review Team at upcoming GNSO Council meeting.
- Council to explore mechanisms and tools for monitoring / reviewing costs related to PDP WGs with a view to improving efficiency and effectiveness
- Council members to review framework for post-implementation reviews and provide input. Council leadership to add this to an upcoming Council meeting agenda to continue this discussion. Council to consider forming a small group of volunteers to work with staff on further developing the framework.
Other Council Related Action Items
Role and responsibilities of GNSO more broadly |
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How to manage Council’s 2019 workload: strategies to increase effectiveness |
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Wrap up and close of session |
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2018 Strategic Planning Session (SPS) Action Items
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Role and responsibilities of Council leadership |
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Nominating Committee (NomCom) Review Implementation Planning Team (IPT).
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