Topic | Entry Date | Target Date | Responsible Council Member (if applicable) | Responsible Staff member (if applicable) | Additional Notes | Status / Action Item |
Dublin Meeting Planning
| 25/6 | 17/10 | Volker Greimann / Jonathan Robinson | Glen de Saint Gery / Marika Konings | COMPLETED | |
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). | |
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.
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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)
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Collaboration with IETF | 23/7 | 21/10 | 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. He shared a message with the Council mailing list concerning recent developments, see http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg17538.html. | |
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. | COMPLETED - update provided during GNSO weekend session |
Global Public Interest Framework | 3/9 | 21/10 | 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. | ||
Data & Metrics for Policy Making | 3/9 | 24/9 | Steve Chan | COMPLETED 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. | ||
GNSO Operating Procedures - Selection of Board seat #13 | 24/9 | 21/10 | 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. | ||
Translation & Transliteration Recommendations Report | 24/9 | 21/10 | Lars Hoffmann | COMPLETED Following the approval of the Recommendations Report, transmit this to the ICANN Board. | ||
new gTLD Subsequent Procedures | 24/9 | 21/10 | Steve Chan | COMPLETED - Public comment forum extended to 30 October. Staff to consider request from the GNSO Council to extend the public comment forum from 40 to 60 days. | ||
new gTLD Auction Proceeds | 24/9 | 21/10 | Jonathan Robinson | Marika Konings | All encouraged to provide input to the public comment forum | |
GNSO Leadership Training | 24/9 | COMPLETED - Leadership training took place prior to ICANN meeting Candidates for the GNSO Council slot for the Leadership Training in Dublin should be submitted to the GNSO Council list as soon as possible. Note, the candidate does not need to be a Council member. |
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