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IRTP Policy Status Report

Marika Konings

Updated Charter for the Cross Community Engagement Group on Internet Governance 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.
  •  Council leadership to propose Council position and next steps for GNSO relationship with the Cross Community Engagement Group on Internet Governance

Rafik Dammak k drazek Pam Little Philippe Fouquart

Marika Konings

IFR team selection process by which a GNSO appointed member of the IANA Function Review (IFR) team will be selected to serve as the GNSO co-chair on the IFR as the ICANN Bylaws stipulate that “(d) The IFRT shall be led by two co-chairs: one appointed by the GNSO from one of the members appointed pursuant to clauses (c)-(f) of Section 18.7 and one appointed by the ccNSO from one of the members appointed pursuant to clauses (a)-(b) of Section 18.7”.
  •  Council to consider how best to coordinate co-chair selection with ccNSO, which will be responsible for selecting the ccNSO co-chair.
PDP 3.0Council leadership to work with ICANN staff to work on the roll out of an Implementation Plan based on the GNSO PDP 3.0 Final Report and Recommendations, prior to the Strategic Planning Session at the latest.
  •  Council leadership/staff to report on a quarterly basis on the status of implementation.
  •  Staff to add PDP3.0 to the Project List

k drazek Pam Little Rafik Dammak

Marika Konings

k drazek Rafik Dammak Pam Little

Emily Barabas

Drafting Team on charter related to the next steps for the ICANN Procedure of Handling Whois conflicts with Privacy

Topic

Entry Date (E)

____________

Target Date (T)

Action Item

Responsible Council Member

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Responsible Staff member

Info

GNSO Prioritization

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  •  Staff to send note to Councilors to encourage their respective groups to provide input to the public comment forum, if applicable.

Council Liaisons

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  •  Staff to follow up on Council liaisons, remind Council of the open appointments and ensure roles are filled.

Steve Chan

 

  •  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.

Rafik Dammak Pam Little k drazek Steve Chan Ariel Liang


PDP3.0 Final Report

Status
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titleIN 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.

Rafik Dammak Pam Little k drazek Ariel Liang Steve Chan Julie Hedlund


Managing IDN Variants TLDs

Status
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titleIN PROGRESS

 

  •  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.

Rubens Kuhl k drazek Pam Little Rafik Dammak Maxim Alzoba Philippe Fouquart Edmon Chung Michele NeylonMaarten Simon Philippe FouquartDennis Tan Tanaka

Steve Chan Ariel Liang

Regarding the JIG format, the small team is not ready to look at that yet. but it's on their radar.

Evolution of the Multi stakeholder Model of Governance

k drazek Pam Little

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titleIN PROGRESS

 

 

  •  

Fellowship Program Selection Committee

Status
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titleIN PROGRESS

 

  •  Council leadership to propose to Council approach to select permanent GNSO member to Fellowship Program Selection Committee (.i.e., have Heather continue to serve as permanent appointee for the remainder of the 2-year term)
  •  Communicate Council outcome to Heather Forrest, the current interim member to that committee.
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titleIN PROGRESS

 

 

  •  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 meeting
  •  Call for volunteers to be delayed at least until the EPDP hits the milestone of publishing its Initial Report. Council to discuss this topic once that milestone is hit.
  •  ICANN Staff to circulate a call for volunteers (subsequent to the initiation and chartering process for the EPDP on the Temporary Specification) 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.
  •  Council Leadership  to consider when to launch call for volunteers for the WHOIS Procedure Implementation Advisory Group (e.g., with publication of EPDP Final Report)

Michele Neylon Paul McGrady k drazek Stephanie Perrin Pam Little

Marika Konings Nathalie Peregrine

ICANN Reserve Fund

Status
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titleIN PROGRESS

 

  •  Council leadership to initiate discussion on mailing list

k drazek Pam Little Rafik Dammak

Marika Konings

GNSO Response to GAC Communique
  • 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 ICANN68 (specific timing/format TBD)  

Rafik Dammak Pam Little k drazek Philippe Fouquart Maarten Simon

Marika Konings Steve ChanAriel Liang


EPDP 2 team request for input on data accuracy

Status
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titleCOMPLETED

 

  •  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

k drazek 


New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Project Change Request

Status
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titleCOMPLETED

 

  •  GNSO Council to provide feedback with regard to the SubPro PCR on list for one week (till 27 February 2020), which should help inform the GNSO Council decision on whether to approve the PCR. Keith to send a reminder on the Council list.

Rafik Dammak Pam Little k drazek

Steve Chan


Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs PDP Project Change Request

Status
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titleCOMPLETED

 

  •  GNSO Council to provide feedback with regard to the RPM PCR on list for one week (till 27 February 2020), which should help inform the GNSO Council decision on whether to approve the PCR. Keith to send a reminder on the Council list.

Rafik Dammak Pam Little k drazek


ICANN67

Status
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titleCOMPLETED

 

  •  Councilors who were unable to attend the pre ICANN67 GNSO Policy Update webinar to listen to the recording of the session prior to the week of ICANN67 (week of 9 March). Keith to send a reminder to the Council list.
k drazek

Draft FY21-25 Operating & Financial Plan and Draft FY21 Operating Plan & Budget

Status
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titleCOMPLETED

 

  •  GNSO Council, especially the Councilors involved in the PDP 3.0 small team, to review the draft and provide input for the PDP 3.0 related comments no later than 21 February 2020 at 23:59 UTC.

Rafik Dammak Pam Little k drazek Steve Chan


2020 Strategic Planning Session (SPS) Action Items


SPS SegmentEntry DateAction ItemResponsible PartyAdditional Notes

The role and responsibilities of the GNSO Council as a member of the Empowered Community

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titleIN PROGRESS

 

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Small Drafting Team
  • Staff to
seek
  • circulate to
finalize GNSO response to the GAC Communique, to seek to take into RySG concerns. Council leadership to subsequently determine best way to approve (e.g., intersessional vote or during December meeting), taking into account the end of January date for the next ICANN Board meeting, during which the Board is expected to consider adoption of its scorecard on the GAC Advice
  • the GNSO Council the guidelines and templates that have been recently developed and adopted and which be found on the GNSO web-site (see https://gnso.icann.org/en/council/procedures under the heading Guidelines and Templates that Help the GNSO Fulfill Its Role & Obligation as a Decisional Participant in the Empowered Community).
  •  Form a small group of Council members to draft a letter to ICANN Legal to raise questions relating to potential liability of individual Council members and existing protections.

k drazek Pam Little Rafik Dammak

Marika Konings Nathalie Peregrine

Strategic Planning Session

 

Steve Chan Julie Hedlund


PDP3.0 Improvements

Status
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titleIN PROGRESS

 

  •  Schedule a special Council
members to make travel arrangements for Strategic Planning Session (notice should have been received from Constituency Travel - in case of questions, please contact gnso-secs@icann.org)
  •  Council leadership and ICANN staff to work on first draft of the agenda for Council review
 Council leadership and ICANN staff to prepare a set of resources (e.g., opening remarks from Cherine, blog posts) to facilitate preparation for SPS and provide to Council for their review
  • meeting to carry out a detailed run through of the full project list. Following that, Council meeting would consider during its regular meeting any changes to the project and condition would be reviewed.
  •  Council to further consider the process and timing of the review of PDP 3.0 Improvements
  •  

    Council to agree on mechanism to start review of GNSO Operating Procedures to consider which updates may need to be made as a result of the PDP 3.0 Improvements.

  •  Council to consider commencing chartering for one of the new efforts (e.g. IDNs or transfers) to make sure the new charter template is fit for purpose.
  •  Council to confirm which additional items to move forward with and consider using agile teams to do so.
  •  Council members to consult with their respective groups to discuss whether there are other items that should be addressed going forward.

k drazek Pam Little Rafik Dammak

Marika Konings Nathalie Peregrine

IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms

Berry Cobb

Ariel Liang Julie Hedlund  


SPS Survey

Status
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titleIN PROGRESS

 

  •  
Susan Kawaguchi to collaborate with the PDP WG and staff to develop a draft final report for preliminary consideration by the GNSO Council (targeting May meeting). Susan Kawaguchi and Heather Forrest to prepare report on the usage of the 3.7 Appeal Process contained in the GNSO Operating Procedure that is intended to capture the process used and lessons learned.
  •  ICANN staff to inform the IGO-INGO CRP PDP WG that the GNSO Council resolved that the Working Group, in line with the Council’s priority to ensure responsible allocation of resources and timely management of the PDP, the Final Report be submitted in time to meet the July 2018 GNSO Council meeting document deadline.
  •  Councilors to review Final Report, especially in the broader context of the appropriate overall scope of protection for all IGO identifiers, in preparation for consideration as early as the August Council meeting.
  •  ICANN staff to inform the ICANN Board and the GAC that the IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Mechanisms PDP Working Group has completed its work and forward a copy of the Final Report to them
  •  Councilors to review Final Report and options flowchart, then prepare a list of questions by 31 August 2018 that they have, for response by the WG leadership, WG liaison, WG members, or staff as appropriate.
  •  ICANN staff to work with the GNSO Chair and Council liaison to determine possible ways to address concerns regarding some of the PDP recommendations within the scope of the PDP Manual, in light of the fact that the WG has not identified any recommendations as being interdependent.
  •  Next steps for the IGO-INGO Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms PDP WG Final Report - ICANN staff to schedule webinar for questions and answers
  •  Council leadership/staff to develop a summary document to capture concerns and issues with the PDP, as well as next step options available to the Council
 Council leadership to again present Council  options for the IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Final Report to consider and discuss with their respective SG/Cs.

Susan Kawaguchi

Mary Wong Steve Chan

Nathalie Peregrine

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).
  •  ICANN staff to provide Consensus Policy Implementation Framework (CPIF) updates and related slides to the Council list.
  •  Council to determine by 31 July 2018 whether the proposed updates are acceptable or determine if something further is needed (e.g., webinar)
  •  GDD Staff to review feedback received and share updated CPIF with Council
  •  Council to review updated CPIF (on November Council meeting)

k drazek Pam Little Rafik Dammak

Marika Konings

GNSO Empowered Community Roles & Responsibilities

Status
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titleCOMPLETED

 

  •  Noting that the previous drafting team is disbanded, ICANN staff to conduct a new call for volunteers, which could include Councilors and appointees from SG/Cs (and former members).
  •  ICANN staff to send to the GNSO Council the link to Google Drive folder, which contains current working drafts.

Julie Hedlund Marika Konings

GNSO Rep to EC admin

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  •  GNSO Secretariat to communicate to the ICANN Secretary that Keith Drazek, GNSO Chair, will represent the GNSO as the Decisional Participant on the Empowered Community Administration
Nathalie Peregrine

...

  • Council members to take the order ranking survey back to their respective SG/Cs to discuss and request input. This input will be further considered during an upcoming Council meeting to help inform the Council’s prioritization and decision-making going forward.

k drazek Pam Little Rafik Dammak

Marika Konings Steve Chan



2019 Strategic Planning Session (SPS) Action Items

SPS SegmentEntry DateAction ItemResponsible PartyAdditional Notes

Role and responsibilities of GNSO more broadly



  •  For the section 3.6 Speaking at Meetings of the GNSO Operating Procedures, Council to consider revising this section since it is not strictly enforced.
  •  Council leadership and staff to consider documenting the internal operating procedures of the leadership team. Create a Chair/Vice-chair handbook, to help understand role and responsibilities.
  •  Council leadership to make the Council meeting planning document public, to both help Councilors stay informed about upcoming topics, but to seek their input for meeting preparation.
  •  Staff to investigate if the GNSO can serve as a Slack guinea pig in the already existing pilot effort within ICANN org. The use of Slack would be incumbent on a review of this platform first to understand how its threads would be archived and what level of access ICANN org would have to privileged or private communications between members. The GNSO Council will discuss whether document drafting can take place in Slack, but because the Council highly values transparency and accountability, the Council agreed that documents would need to be circulated on the archived email list to ensure that they are properly incorporated into the public record.
  •  Council leadership to liaise with the Nominating Committee to understand from Appointees and Panelists, what works, what does not within the process, and better understand how the selection process takes place. Councilors to investigate how NCAs can be better informed; identify what communications they might not be receiving.


How to manage Council’s 2019 workload: strategies to increase effectiveness
  •  Erika Mann to send note to Council upon the adoption of the new copyright law and the potential impact on GNSO policy work / DNS.
  •  Council to form a small team to work on the definitions in the Project Timing Document in relation to definitions of priority and level of effort.
  •  Staff to update Project Timing Document to try and incorporate suggestions from Councilors.


Wrap up and close of session
  •  Staff to identify what are low-hanging fruit in the PDP 3.0 implementation plan. Prioritize/color-code. Identify dependencies (e.g., reporting is needed prior to evaluation).
  •  Recurring: Small team of Councilors / Council leadership to report progress of PDP 3.0 at each Council meeting. Establish project plan for implementation for PDP 3.0. (Action Item taken on board by the PDP 3.0 small team)
  •  In order to better prioritize work, need to know capacity of Council, community, staff, Staff to get existing information from Berry Cobb about average commitment and Council to see if that can be utilized, leveraged, and/or updated.
    •  Reviewed prior version from 2017 and must be refreshed to be useful  
  •  Staff to check if ICANN legal has looked into the insurance for WG members question.



2018

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Strategic Planning Session (SPS) Action Items

SPS SegmentEntry DateAction ItemResponsible PartyAdditional Notes
Role and responsibilities of Council leadership
  •  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. 

Changes to GNSO Operating Procedures and related governance documents to facilitate participation in Empowered CommunityWhat does Council need/want to achieve in 2018, and how to do this?
  •  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. 
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    Other Council Related Action Items




Other Council Related Action Items


Additional Notes
TopicEntry DateAction ItemResponsible PartyAdditional Notes

Nominating Committee (NomCom) Review Implementation Planning Team (IPT).

Status
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  •  Staff to advise how to provide input to the NomCom about GNSO NomCom appointees, also what the GNSO Operating Procedures say with respect to the NomCom appointee.
Steve ChanTopicEntry DateAction ItemResponsible Party