Action Items

Topic	Entry Date	Target Date	Responsible Council Member (if applicable)	Responsible Staff member (if applicable)	Additional Notes	Status / Action Item
Helsinki Meeting Planning	10/3	27/6	Donna Austin, Volker Greimann	Glen de Saint Gery / Marika Konings		COMPLETED
SSAC Liaison to GNSO Council / GNSO Council liaison to the SSAC	BA wrap up session	12/5	James Bladel	Julie Hedlund		COMPLETED James to report back to to Patrik on options discussed on Council mailing list: Change the format of the GNSO/SSAC interactions, post topics in advance and promote a more free flowing discussion. Come prepared with questions, and encourage SSAC to tailor their materials & updates to active GNSO work. Leverage the overlap – encourage members who participate in both communities, and ICANN Staff, to highlight mutual areas of interest and flag for discussion by GNSO/SSAC. For example,some SSAC resources are public, which would allow one or two Councilors to volunteer as informal liaisons (e.g. keeping up with the lists & new publications, and reporting back to Council with any material topics). Create an “SSAC Consultation” step as part of the start up activities of new PDPs. Perhaps this could be merged with the existing SG/C comment/consultation steps? No strong consensus to establish a formal liaison at this time, but keep this path open if future circumstances warrant the position.
Outstanding IGO/INGO PDP Recommendations	26/6	14/4	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. At ICANN55, representatives of the Red Cross met with the GNSO Council leadership to discuss possible next steps. The Red Cross representatives briefed the Council during the meeting on 14 April on the scope of the Red Cross’ continuing request for permanent protections for those of its national society and international movement identifiers that are not currently covered by the policy recommendations that have been adopted by the GNSO Council and the ICANN Board. Following this briefing, a draft letter has been prepared to be sent to the ICANN Board on this topic. Staff to schedule and conduct webinar detailing history and status of work on Red Cross and IGO protections for the GNSO Council as soon as possible. (COMPLETED) This topic was further discussed during the GNSO meeting with individual board members in Helsinki. Specific action items coming out of that meeting: Board – develop decision tree regarding IGO/INGO, which includes consideration of curative rights Staff – send IGO/INGO/RCRC comparison chart to Board
Customer Standing Committee	12/5	9/8	Donna Austin	Julie Hedlund		Council to continue to discuss imminent and necessary actions to ensure that the GNSO can comply with its new obligations relating to the Customer Standing Committee that is to be created as part of the IANA stewardship transition process
CWG on Internet Governance	12/5	30/6	Carlos Gutierrez			Carlos Gutierrez to reach out to CCWG-IG co-chairs to request that progress report is provided to Council for review and discussion at Helsinki meeting (COMPLETED) Council to continue to discuss preferred actions and next steps with regard to ongoing reporting requirements and nature of structure of the CCWG-IG
IANA Transition	12/5	30/6	Paul McGrady	Julie Hedlund, Mary Wong		Paul McGrady to provide draft of Council comment on the Draft New Bylaws for Council review as soon as possible (public comment period closes on 21 May); comment to note that Bylaws should take into account all comments that had been sent in by the GNSO Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies in relation to the CCWG-Accountability recommendations (COMPLETED) Council will discuss additional obligations created under the new Bylaws for the GNSO in Helsinki (staff to provide table/paper as discussion aid) COMPLETED
Possible Integration of the Pending Implementation of the Translation & Transliteration of gTLD Contact Data PDP Recommendations with the implementation of Thick WHOIS	12/5					COMPLETED Staff withdrew the request for integration. A call for volunteers has already gone out to form the T & T IRT.

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