Action Items

Topic	Entry Date	Target Date	Responsible Council Member (if applicable)	Responsible Staff member (if applicable)	Additional Notes	Status / Action Item
Dublin Meeting Planning Develop the proposed agenda for GNSO weekend session in Dublin	25/6	17/10	Volker Greimann / Jonathan Robinson	Glen de Saint Gery / Marika Konings		Councillors to confirm or suggest possible subjects for discussion for GNSO meetings with: GDD Theresa Swinehart Fadi Chehade The ICANN board The GAC
CWG on Enhancing ICANN Accountability	13/11	23/7	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). Encourage everyone to file comments during the public comment period which remains open till 12th of September 2015. (COMPLETED) Thomas Rickert committed to update the Council when the ICANN Board has provided its input to the CCWG on Accountability.
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	23/7	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	3/9	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.	COMPLETED: GNSO Council Chair to communicate the GNSO Review of Buenos Aires GAC Communiqué to the ICANN Board COMPLETED: GNSO Council Chair to inform the GAC Chair as well as the GAC-GNSO Consultation Group of the communication between the GNSO Council and the ICANN Board.
CWG on Use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs	21/5	3/9	Heather Forrest	Lars Hoffmann		COMPLETED - letter has been sent to GAC Chair (see http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/correspondence)
Preliminary Issue Report on gTLD Registration Data Services	20/6	3/9		Marika Konings		COMPLETED - Encourage GNSO SG & C’s to provide input to the public comment forum (deadline for comments is 6 September - see https://www.icann.org/public-comments/rds-prelim-issue-2015-07-13-en).
SSAC	20/6	3/9		Julie Hedlund / Steve Chan		COMPLETED - See message sent by Julie Hedlund to the GNSO Council mailing list to determine the linkage for New gTLD Work between SSAC and other groups
GNSO Liaison to the GAC	24/6	3/9	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. (This has been added to the agenda of the GAC-GNSO CG) Key dates for consideration: (Staff) Budget cycle in which to apply for future funding for the next year's funding. Set a date by which to review the function
GNSO Council Chair Election	23/7	3/9	Jonathan Robinson	Glen de Saint Gery		COMPLETED Publish the GNSO Council chair election procedure and timeline. Remind Stakeholder Groups and constituencies of the timeline.
Collaboration with IETF	23/7	24/9	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)	David Cake volunteered to keep a close eye on developments in the IETF particularly with regard to changes to the underlying technical and operational protocols of Whois, that might impact the launch of the PDP on Next Generation Directory Services.
Curative Rights Protection for IGOs and INGOs	23/7	3/9	Phil Corwin	Mary Wong	Phillip Corwin, co-chair of the GNSO working group on Curative Rights Protection for IGOs and INGO brought to the Council’s attention the letter sent by the OECD Secretary-General to ICANN’s CEO Fadi Chehade. WG chair’s concern on the process and substance of the letter is noted by the Council.	Phillip Corwin to report back to the Council at or before the next Council meeting
Letter from ICANN Board Chair on Exclusive Registry Access for gTLD Terms representing Generic Strings	3/9	24/9	Jonathan Robinson	Steve Chan		COMPLETED Jonathan Robinson to draft a short response and circulate on the Council mailing list.
Global Public Interest Framework	3/9	24/9		Marika Konings		COMPLETED - Nora will join GNSO Council meeting on 24/9 Staff to reach out to Nora Abusitta-Ouri responsible for the development and implementation of a global public interest framework to provide an update either in writing ahead of the next council meeting or maybe join the next Council meeting on 24 September 2015.
Data & Metrics for Policy Making	3/9	24/9		Steve Chan		Encourage everyone to share this information (the presentation) with their respective groups so as to be able to make an informed decision when the Final Report comes before the Council.

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