Action Item / Request | Entry Date | Target Date | Responsible Council Member (if applicable) | Responsible Staff member (if applicable) | Additional Notes | Status |
Buenos Aires Meeting Planning:
| 18/7 | Wolf | Glen de Saint Gery / Marika Konings | Action items follow from discussions during GNSO wrap up session as well as GNSO - ccNSO Council meeting. |
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GNSO Review
| 18/7 |
10/10 | Jen Wolfe | Rob Hoggarth | Question for the Council from 5/9 meeting: Does this group have a role to play in the event that the Board decides to postpone the review? |
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PDP for relevant policies on issues not dealt with during the course of developing the 2013 RAA
| 14/3 | 10/10 | Mary Wong | One of the remaining items that may need to be addressed as part of the RAA PDP appears to be the creation of a privacy / proxy accreditation program. Staff is in the process of preparing the Report on the Conclusion of the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement Negotiations, following which the GNSO Council is expected to take the next step in this PDP. | Staff provided an update on the staff briefing paper that is expected to be published shortly so it can be considered during the next GNSO Council meeting. | |
Board request for input / advice on IDN Variant TLD Root LGR Procedure and User Experience Study Recommendations | 11/4 | 10/10 | Jonathan Robinson | Steve Sheng | The Board requests that, by 1 July 2013, interested Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees provide staff with any input and guidance they may have to be factored into implementation of the Recommendations from the Report on User Experience Implications of Active Variant TLDs (see http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/prelim-report-11apr13-en.htm#2.a for further details). The JIG prepared a letter responding to the Board request which was adopted by the GNSO Council in Durban. | The GNSO Council adopted the letter as proposed by the JIG at its meeting in Durban. The ccNSO Council has now also approved the letter. The next step will be for this letter to be jointly sent by the GNSO and ccNSO to the ICANN Board. |
BGC Recommendation on Reconsideration Request 13-3 1. The Chair, on behalf of the GNSO Council, writes to the Board Governance Committee (copying the New gTLD Programme Committee). 2. The Chair, on behalf of the GNSO Council, writes to the ATRT2. 3. The Chair, on behalf of the GNSO Council, writes to the ICANN Board. | 13/6 | 10/10 | Jonathan Robinson | Marika Konings | The objective of each of the above 3 can be summarised as follows: 1. The Board Governance Committee – Drafted by [Jeff]. a. To highlight and describe the key concerns with output of the committee i.e. with the rationalisation for the reconsideration decision. b. To make it clear that the desired outcome is to remove the current rationalisation from the record (and not to overturn the outcome of the reconsideration). c. To recognise that the Council’s intervention in these processes is for very specific reasons and because of the perceived potential impact on the GNSO and indeed the MS Model. 2. The ATRT2 – Drafted by [Volunteer]. a. To highlight concerns with the reconsideration process as a mechanism for ensuring accountability and transparency. b. To not propose a specific remedy but rather to leave that to the ATRT. 3. The ICANN Board – Drafted by [Jonathan]. a. To summarise and refer to both 1 & 2 above b. To highlight on-going concerns about the issue of accountability for actions (implementation or policy) which are not in agreement with GNSO policy or policy advice. c. To propose solutions such as: i. Agreement to effectively communicate with the GNSO in the event that a decision goes against such policy or policy advice (something we have already agreed to on the back of our Beijing / recent discussions) ii. Possible change/s to the ICANN bylaws | Request sent to BGC to 'thoroughly review the rationale of the Reconsideration Request and consider deferral of the publication of the rationale until such time that a more complete discussion on this matter can take place with the community in July at the ICANN meeting in Durban' on 19/6. In response, the BGC noted that the current plan is for the Board Governance Committee to meet again on 25 June 2013 to review the rationale and has proposed to have a discussion around GNSO advice, and involvement of the GNSO in the implementation of policies, outside of the context of the wording of the rationale in Durban. The rationale was subsequently modified and adopted by the BGC and NGPC. Further discussion on this topic took place in Durban and an informal commitment was made by the Board that a more robust system needs to be put in place for the Board to be able to acknowledge and respond to input that is received that are not PDP recommendations. GNSO Council to further consider whether the initial action items are still relevant. |
PDP Improvements
| 18/7 | 10/10 |
All |
Marika Konings
Glen de Saint Gery | A paper on the proposed PDP enhancement was submitted to the GNSO Council and discussed / reviewed during the last meeting (see http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/pdp-improvements-22aug13-en.pdf). | |
SCI Charter
| 18/7 | 10/10 |
Jonathan All
| Julie Hedlund | During its wrap up session in Durban, the GNSO Council discussed possible changes to the charter of the SCI to confirm that it is to serve as a standing committee as well as possible changes to the methodology for decision-making. These items were further discussed during the September meeting in which it was agreed that the charter should be modified to confirm it is a standing committee and that the Council would like the SCI to undertake the work to propose any other changes it deems necessary and then to submit these to the Council. | Jonathan confirmed the outcome of the Council discussions to the SCI. |
Metrics & Reporting WG Re-circulate call for volunteers | 18/7 | 10/10 | All | Berry Cobb | Following discussions on a possible alternative approach to address this issue due to the lack of volunteers that had come forward, it was decided to first re-circulate the call for volunteers to see if additional volunteers would come forward to take on this task. | Completed. |
Policy Issues surrounding String confusion
| 5/9 | 10/10 |
Jonathan Robinson
All | Marika Konings |
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