Page History
Topic | Entry Date | Target Date | Responsible Council Member (if applicable) | Responsible Staff member (if applicable) | Additional Notes | Status / Action Item |
Marrakech Meeting Planning
| 22/10 | 4/3 | Amr Elsadr, Susan Kawaguchi | Glen de Saint Gery / Marika Konings | As part of the GNSO meeting planning, ensure co-ordination with SG/Cs to avoid conflicting meetings. | All encouraged to complete the Dublin meeting survey: https://s.zoomerang.com/r/SQ2XHXF.
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| CWG on Enhancing ICANN Accountability | 13/11 | 19/11 | Thomas Rickert | Marika Konings | Councilors to begin consultations with their respective SG/Cs based on the 15 November Formal Update and the full Third Draft Proposal which was released on 30 November. Councilors to consider next steps in relation to input to be provided to the CCWG by the end of the public comment period as well as consideration of the Final ReportCouncillors to review revised input on the third draft proposal developed by the sub-team. | |
| SSAC Liaison to GNSO Council / GNSO Council liaison to the SSAC | BA wrap up session | Jonathan Robinson | Julie Hedlund | ON HOLD Jonathan to explore with Patrik Falstrom the options for a SSAC liaison to the GNSO and/or visa versa. | ||
| Issues for the SCI - voting thresholds | 6/6 | Avri Doria / Alan Greenberg | Marika Konings | 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. | ||
| Outstanding IGO/INGO PDP Recommendations | 26/6 | 19/11 | Thomas Rickert | Mary Wong | In June 2014, the NGPC wrote to the GNSO Council 'with an update on the ongoing work in response to the GNSO policy recommendations regarding Protection of IGO-INGO Identifiers in All gTLDs and the advice from the GAC in its Buenos Aires Communiqué addressing the same topic'. Furthermore the letter noted that 'the NGPC is considering available options to reconcile the differences at issue, including recommending that the ICANN Board reject the conflicting GNSO policy advice (pursuant to the procedure established in the Bylaws). However, before the NGPC recommends any course of action, the NGPC wanted to provide an update to the GNSO to highlight the concerns, and to give the GNSO an opportunity to consider modifying the elements of the approved policy recommendations in accordance with the procedure established in the GNSO Operating Procedures'. | Letter received from Cherine Chalaby (http://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/chalaby-to-robinson-15jan15-en.pdf) noting that the NGPC plans to talk further with the GAC and IGOs at ICANN 52 and would share any updates immediately following those meetings.
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| GNSO Liaison to the GAC | 24/6 | 19/11 | Mason Cole | Marika Konings | Request GAC-GNSO consultation group to review GNSO Liaison to the GAC pilot project and request a report back to the Council. (The GAC-GNSO CG is actively working on these items) Key dates for consideration: (Staff)
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| Collaboration with IETF | 23/7 | 17/12 | David Cake | The Council discussed possible Council action regarding IETF proposed standard for .onion as a Special Use Domain Name: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld/ (due 11 August 2015) | Council to consider next steps, including possibly inviting IETF representatives to a meeting in Marrakech to discuss the most effective ways of ensuring there is regular communication/liaison. | |
| Global Public Interest Framework | 3/9 | 17/12 | Marika Konings | Nora Abusitta to share with the GNSO Council further information on resources and references in relation to the research that has been undertaken on this topic. | COMPLETED - Response received on 29 December (see http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg17890.html) | |
| GNSO Operating Procedures - Selection of Board seat #13 | 24/9 | 17/12 | Julie Hedlund | Following the approval of the addition to the GNSO Operating Procedures of a proposed process for the selection of Board seat #13 by the Contracted Parties House (per current rules in the Operating Procedures concerning the selection of Board seats by each House), staff to update the GNSO Operating Procedures. | ||
| Data & Metrics for Policy Making | 21/10 | 17/12 | Volker Greimann | Steve Chan | Staff to update GNSO Operating Procedures following the adoption of the Final Report by the GNSO Council. | |
| Next Generation gTLD RDS to Replace WHOIS PDP WG Charter | 21/10 | 4/1 | Susan Kawaguchi | Marika Konings | Call for volunteers to form the PDP WG to be launched at the latest by 4 January. Councillors to update their respective SG/Cs on how the amendments to the motion affects the WG handling of SG/C feedback provided during the public comment period on the Preliminary Issue Report. | |
| Request from ICANN Board concerning possible policy work on replacement insurance requirements for ICANN-Accredited Registrars | 21/10 | 17/12 | Volker Greimann | Marika Konings | COMPLETED - response sent on 24 November (see http://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/bladel-to-crocker-03dec15-en.pdf) | |
| Request from ICANN Board concerning possible policy work on exclusive registry access to generic strings | 21/10 | 19/11 | Marika Konings | COMPLETED Letter was sent to the ICANN Board on 24/11 (see http://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/gnso-council-to-crocker-24nov15-en.pdf) | ||
COMPLETED - call for volunteers published on 4 January 2016.
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| GNSO Review of the GAC Dublin Communique | 19/11 | 17/12 | Stephanie Perrin | Marika Konings | Council to further discuss and finalise the most recently circulated draft on the mailing list (see http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg17693.html) | COMPLETED - submitted to the Board and GAC |
| GNSO Candidates for ICANN’s Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team | 19/11 | 17/12 | Wolf-Ulrich Knoben | Marika Konings | Councilors to review the proposed process (see http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg17695.html) for endorsing a certain number of applicants as GNSO representatives for consideration by the selection team (ICANN CEO and GAC Chair), and to continue discussions on the Council mailing list (see http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg17686.html for the updated list of candidates). | |
| new gTLD Subsequent Procedures Preliminary Issue Report | 19/11 | 17/12 | Steve Chan | COMPLETED ICANN Staff sent written update to Council mailing list on 19/11. | ||
| Ensuring Attendee Security at ICANN meetings | 19/11 | 17/12 | Glen de Saint Gery | COMPLETED ICANN staff to forward the questions raised during the Council meeting to Nick Tomasso and his team. | ||
| Proposed meetings for 2016 | 19/11 | 17/12 | Glen de Saint Gery | COMPLETED Councillors to provide input on the proposed schedule of meetings as well as potential changes to the rotation of time zones. | ||
| CWG-Stewardship Letter concerning role in implementation | 19/11 | 17/12 | Marika Konings | COMPLETED Councillors to provide feedback on whether there are any concerns in relation to the approach proposed by the CWG-Stewardship for dealing with implementation oversight. Feedback provided to the CWG-Stewardship. | ||
| DNS Entrepreneurship Center | 19/11 | 17/12 | Julf Helsingius | COMPLETED Julf circulated message concerning DNS Entrepreneurship Center to Council Mailing listCOMPLETED - endorsed candidates communicated to the selection panel. |
