Action Items

Topic	Entry Date	Target Date	Responsible Council Member (if applicable)	Responsible Staff member (if applicable)	Additional Notes	Status / Action Item
Buenos Aires Meeting Planning Develop the proposed agenda for GNSO weekend session in Buenos Aires	12/2	20/6	David Cake / Jonathan Robinson	Glen de Saint Gery / Marika Konings		Council members are encouraged to complete the GNSO meeting survey (see https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/35M9C75) and encourage their respective groups to do likewise.
CWG To Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions	23/1	19/3	Jonathan Robinson	Marika Konings	.	Council must take part of its shared responsibility as a chartering organization to uphold the dialogue with the other parties, including the Board. Council statement in support of the work done by all groups submitted (see http://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/gnso-iana-transition-28feb15-en.pdf).
CWG on Enhancing ICANN Accountability	13/11	19/3	Thomas Rickert	Marika Konings		Keep the Council regularly informed of developments in the CWG on Enhancing ICANN Accountability. Councilors to take on the responsibility to keep their groups informed. For further information, see https://community.icann.org/x/ogDxAg).
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	19/3	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.
Issues for the SCI - amendments to motions	6/6	19/3	Avri Doria	Julie Hedlund / Mary Wong		Template has been developed by staff to assist scoping of issues for SCI - completed template for this specific issue as well as reconsideration of motions submitted to the GNSO Council for consideration on 19/3.
Expert Working Group Final Report	26/6	ongoing	Susan Kawaguchi	Marika Konings	The Expert Working Group published its Final Report on 6 June (https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/final-report-06jun14-en.pdf) as part of the Board initiated PDP on the Purpose of gTLD Registration Data. An informal group has been formed at the invitation of the Board to consider next steps (see http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ewg-process-wg/).	COMPLETED - Board-GNSO Process Group to consider input received during Singapore meeting and determine whether any changes need to be made to the proposed approach or whether the process can proceed as recommended.
Outstanding IGO/INGO PDP Recommendations	26/6	19/3	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.
GAC Communique	13/11	19/3	Volker Greimann	Marika Konings	During the GNSO Council Development Session in Los Angeles, the Council discussed a proposal for dealing with GAC advice: The timing of GAC Advice and how that fits into the policy making cycle as current cycle is problematic as GAC advice is developed in parallel to policy making efforts going on as well as during discussions at ICANN meetings. GAC Advice is often a mixture of policy and implementation, which should be reviewed and parsed by the GNSO since otherwise, it draws the Board into implementation. Typically, the GNSO never responds to the GAC Advice. A possible approach is for the community (led by the Council) to separate GAC Advice into issues of policy and implementation and then to come up with a GNSO response. Consideration of this approach could be a topic for discussion at the first GNSO Council meeting after an ICANN meeting. Policy advice could be further broken down into “in scope” and “out of scope” topics for ICANN policy and thereafter, what, if anything, the GNSO plans to undertake to address policy topics identified. This approach will permit the Board to then go back to the GAC to indicate what policy issues are being worked on. Dealing with the communiqué is a suggested topic for discussion in the joint GAC-GNSO meeting during ICANN 52. The Council had an initial exchange of views on this topic during its meeting on 13/11.	Template using the Singapore GAC Communique circulated for Council review on 24/2. Councilors requested to provide input on template as well as substance of issues identified by the GAC. To be further discussions during 19/3 meeting.
IDN Implementation Guidelines	4/12	11/2		Mary Wong	Akram Atallah sent a letter to the GNSO Council on 4 December which notes that in the ICANN 50 meeting, the GNSO Council and members met with the Board Variant Working Group (BV-WG) and suggested to update the IDN Implementation Guidelines (the last revision was in 2011). Based on follow up discussions, during the ICANN 51 meeting the BV-WG directed the staff to reach out to the GNSO and ccNSO to collect an initial list of issues which should be addressed if this update is undertaken. This request was further outlined in the letter.	COMPLETED - response letter sent to Akram Atallah (see http://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/robinson-to-atallah-01mar15-en.pdf)
ICANN Meeting Strategy	7/2	19/3	Jonathan Robinson	Marika Konings / Glen de Saint Gery		Call for volunteers circulated to all SG/C with the request to identify one representative for a drafting team to develop a framework for GNSO related meetings as part of the new ICANN meeting strategy.
CWG on Auction Proceeds	7/2	11/2	Jonathan Robinson	Marika Konings		Jonathan wrote to all SO/AC/SG/C chairs to invite them to participate in CWG on auction proceeds. Council to review responses received to date and possible next steps during meeting on 19/3.
Policy & Implementation	7/2	17/3		Marika Konings		Council members to encourage their respective group to provide input to the Policy & Implementation Initial Recommendations Report public comment forum (see https://www.icann.org/public-comments/policy-implementation-2015-01-19-en). Deadline for comments has been extended to: 17 March.
GNSO Council Special Community Budget Requests	12/2	28/2	Jonathan Robinson	Marika Konings		COMPLETED - Submitted GNSO Council Special Community Budget Requests for GNSO Council Development Session, GNSO Council liaison to the GAC and F2F PDP WG meetings pilot project.

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