CONSENT AGENDA
Motion for GNSO Council Review of ICANN80 GAC Communiqué
Whereas,
- The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) advises the ICANN Board on issues of public policy, and especially where there may be an interaction between ICANN's activities or policies and national laws or international agreements. It usually does so as part of a Communiqué, which is published towards the end of every ICANN meeting.
- The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) is responsible for developing and recommending to the ICANN Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains.
- The GNSO Council has expressed a desire to provide feedback to the ICANN Board on issues in the GAC Communiqué as these relate to generic top-level domains to inform the ICANN Board as well as the broader community of past, present, or future gTLD policy activities that may directly or indirectly relate to Advice provided by the GAC.
- The GNSO Council's review of GAC Communiqué Advice and Issues of Importance is intended to further enhance the co-ordination and promote the sharing of information on gTLD related policy activities between the GAC, Board, and the GNSO.
Resolved,
- The GNSO Council adopts the GNSO Review of the ICANN80 Kigali Communiqué Advice [INSERT LINK] and Issues of Importance [INSERT LINK] and requests that the GNSO Council Chair communicate the GNSO Council Review of ICANN80 GAC Communiqué Advice and Issues of Importance to the ICANN Board.
- The GNSO Council requests that the GNSO Liaison to the GAC also informs the GAC of the communication between the GNSO Council and the ICANN Board.
Motion to Approve Supplemental Recommendations for the Non-Adopted Topic 24: String Similarity Evaluation SubPro Recommendations
Submitted by: Paul McGrady
Seconded by:
WHEREAS,
- The GNSO Council adopted the Final Report of the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures (SubPro) PDP on 18 February 2021.
- On 16 March 2023, the ICANN Board adopted the majority of the SubPro Outputs, as identified in Section A of the Scorecard, while designating a select set of recommendations as pending, identified in Section B of the Scorecard.
- The GNSO Council established a small team to carefully review the pending SubPro recommendations and identify the best path forward to seek to resolve the issues that were preventing Board adoption of the pending recommendations.
- Leveraging the small team, the GNSO Council was able to address the vast majority of pending recommendations, through a combination of dialogue with the ICANN Board, issuing two Clarifying Statements, and adopting several Supplemental Recommendations during its April 2024 meeting.
- During the Council's April 2024 meeting, the Council elected to pursue further amendments to the Supplemental Recommendations related to Topic 24: String Similarity Evaluations, and accordingly, removed the relevant Supplemental Recommendations from consideration.
- The Small Team Plus was reconvened to consider a draft proposal put forth by ICANN org to allow for singular and plurals of the same word in the same language to be identified.
- The Small Team Plus has since developed Supplemental Recommendations that both allow for the identification of singular and plurals of the same word in the same language, but also introduces a mechanism that may allow for the singular and plurals to coexist if certain circumstances are fulfilled.
- On [date], the Supplemental Recommendations regarding Topic 24: String Similarity Evaluations were shared with the GNSO Council.
RESOLVED,
- The GNSO Council approves the Supplemental Recommendations for the non-adopted SubPro recommendations related to Topic 24: String Similarity Evaluations and instructs the GNSO Secretariat to transmit the Supplemental Recommendations to the ICANN Board.
