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Re: [ALAC] [ALAC-Announce] Announcement of 2024 ALAC-Selected NextGen Mentor
by Judith Hellerstein Nov. 22, 2023

Nov. 22, 2023

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GNSO Council 16 Nov 2023 meeting agenda is out
by Justine Chew Nov. 18, 2023

Nov. 18, 2023

Dear all, Just a note to inform you that the agenda for the GNSO Council meeting of 16 Nov 2023 at 21:00 UTC is out as follows. For a curated version of the highlighted agenda item, please visit this link <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct…> . *GNSO Council Meeting #11 of 2023 held on 16 Nov 2023 * *Full Agenda <https://community.icann.org/x/gYJME> | Documents <https://community.icann.org/x/fIJME> | Motions <https://community.icann.org/x/f4JME>* - *Item 1: Administrative Matters* - Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects List <https://gnso.icann.org/en/council/project> and Action Item List <https://community.icann.org/x/RgZlAg>. - Item 3: Consent Agenda - *Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - Approval Action Community Forum at ICANN78 - Fundamental Bylaws Amendments to Articles 18 and 19 of the ICANN Bylaws* - *Item 5: COUNCIL UPDATE - EPDP on Internationalized Domain Names Phase 1 Final Report * - *Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Updates on Status of Data Processing Agreement (DPA) negotiations and Registration Data Accuracy* - *(i) DPA Negotiations* - *(ii) Registration Data Accuracy* - *Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - ICANN Board Action on the Final Report of the Cross-Community Working Group on New gTLD Auction Proceeds (CCWG-AP)* - *Item 8: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Consider whether further work is needed after ICANN org outreach to European Network Information Security Agency (ENISA) * - *Item 9: ANY OTHER BUSINESS * - 9.1 SPS Planning - 9.2 Confirmation of RDRS Chair - 9.3 Update on Public Comment on Pilot Holistic Review - Terms of Reference - 9.4 Update on GAC Communique Update As usual, Council meetings are open to observers in listen-only mode. If you would like to observe the meeting, please check this link <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct…> for details. Thanks for reading / considering. Justine Chew ALAC Liaison to the GNSO GNSO Liaison Report Workspace <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct…> ------

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Notes from the ALAC-GNSO Council Bilateral at ICANN78, Sat 21 Oct
by Justine Chew Nov. 6, 2023

Nov. 6, 2023

Dear all, Here are some notes on the ALAC's Bilateral Meeting at ICANN78 with GNSO Council. Link to the Zoom recording of the meeting is available on the ICANN78 schedule website or at the relevant ALAC Liaison to GNSO workspace tab here <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct…> . *Notes on the 21 Oct 2023 ALAC-GNSO Council Bilateral Meeting <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct…>* Jonathan Zuck, ALAC Chair, provided an update on incoming and outgoing ALAC leadership and Sebastien Ducos, GNSO Chair, provided an update on incoming and outgoing GNSO councilors and the change in GNSO Council leadership. ALAC and At-Large community members and Council leadership and councilors discussed 3 issues per the agenda <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct…> : *1. Diacritics in New gTLDs (eg .Quebec and .Québec)* - The GNSO Council recognised that the ALAC, among others, have brought to Council's attention, the potential unsettling impact of certain existing gTLDs (in ASCII or not) running into string similarity issues if the existing registry operators of those certain gTLDs or other applicants were to apply for delegation of what are perceived as confusingly similar strings to those gTLDs but with diacritics. This situation could also impact applications for strings with or without diacritics in the next round. - Sebastien Ducos, GNSO Chair, reported that Council has not yet determined how they would like to proceed with the issue (whether eventually running a PDP, ie. a policy path, *if required* or an implementation for edge cases), and will be discussing this further at the Council meeting on Wed, 25 Oct. - Justine Chew, ALAC Liaison to the GNSO, would be able to provide an update in due course. *2. Next Round of New gTLD Program - Progress on pending or not adopted Subsequent Procedures recommendations* - There are a number of recommendations from the Subsequent Procedures PDP WG that have been marked (as still) pending and some which have been not adopted (rejected) by the ICANN Board on account of the Board holding that they are not in the best interest of ICANN. - GNSO Council had established a Council Small Team to address these pending/rejected recommendations to see if they can be clarified (for those pending) or revised in some way (for those rejected) that would address the Board's concern and rationale, respectively. - Paul McGrady, GNSO Councilor and the Council's Small Team Lead, reported that the GNSO Council is expanding the existing Council Small Team to a "Small Team Plus" to address such recommendations, which includes Recommendation 17.2 on Applicant Support, which he acknowledged as something the At-Large community have a major interest in. Paul encouraged the ALAC to send their very best representatives (a subject matter expert (SME) and an alternate) to join this Small Team Plus to work on those recommendations. - A workplan is being finalised and the invitation for an SME and alternate from every SOAC, C, and SG, will follow soon. - Tijani Ben Jemaa, AFRALO, expressed a hope that the major increased of interest in this topic is one that supports the success of an improved Applicant Support Program as compared to the 2012 Round. *3. Registration Data Request Service (RDRS) * - Greg DiBiase, GNSO Council Vice Chair, explained a bit of the background of the RDRS, from the GNSO recommendations to the Board on the System for Standardized Access/Disclosure (for registration data) (SSAD) and how those recommendations were viewed as prohibitively expensive to implement as-is, and that the Board wanted more data before considering committing a large fund to implement the same. This led to the idea to create a more lightweight system, i.e. a pilot, now called the RDRS, which is to serve as a central place for requestors of registration data that have been redacted to request such data. These requests would be routed to the appropriate registrar for evaluation (and disclosure where appropriate). - Greg DiBiase, GNSO Council Vice Chair, also reported that work has been done to define what the RDRS would look like and the sort of metrics that would be gathered and shared with the community. Also, that Registrar pre-onboarding has begun (around 10% of domains under management, with up to 35% pledged for on-boarding by launch) and that the RDRS should launch by the end of the calendar year. Onboarding by registrars to the RDRS is voluntary and will inform the paths forward for pending System for Standardized Access/Disclosure (SSAD) policy recommendations. The RDRS will run for 2 years and pending policy recommendations will then be revisited. - Greg DiBiase, GNSO Council Vice Chair, also reported that the GNSO Council Small Team that had worked on the RDRS design input will be transitioning to a Standing Committee which is tasked to look into issues with the RDRS as they arise, including metrics and reporting. - Jonathan Zuck, ALAC Chair, expressed a hope that the data being captured/stored will offer the community the ability to do some real analysis as opposed to just relying on reports generated by ICANN org. Sebastien Ducos, GNSO Chair and GNSO Council EPDP Small Team Lead, replied that the data is being stored for as long as the pilot runs but the data that will be shared will only be aggregate data. - Thomas Rickert, GNSO Councilor and GNSO Council EPDP Small Team member, reminded that the RDRS is in effect just of a basic design which excludes many better features per the SSAD recommendations. However, he reminded participants that it is important for us all to advocate for the use of the RDRS to help ensure that the system will work well to meet the needs both requestors and disclosers, in terms of better quality of requests and better quality disclosures. - Greg Shatan, NARALO Chair, inquired whether there has been discussions to handle privacy/proxy service providers who "hide" real registrant data and even registrar data. Sebastien Ducos, GNSO Chair and GNSO Council EPDP Small Team Lead, replied that there have been discussions but since the RDRS is not based on policy but is voluntary for registrars and related service providers, we can only encourage privacy/proxy service providers to also participate in the RDRS. Greg DiBiase, GNSO Council Vice Chair confirmed that there is only existing policy to handle redacted data but no policy to handle data under privacy/proxy services, and there could be future work on that. - Marie Patullo, GNSO Councilor, asked about what happens to requests are "ignored" by "unresponsive registrars". Sebastien Ducos, GNSO Chair and GNSO Council EPDP Small Team Lead, clarified that data related to requests that are unattended to will be stored and followed up in some way that would not disincentivize "responsive registrars". *Action by ALAC Liaison*: To look into periodic intersessional updates from GNSO and discussions with At-Large on the above topics. Kind regards, Justine Chew ALAC Liaison to the GNSO GNSO Liaison Report Workspace <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct…> On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 at 17:27, Justine Chew <justine.chew.icann(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > The agenda for the ALAC - GNSO Council joint meeting at ICANN78 is posted > both at the ICANN78 At-Large wiki > <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+Meetings+-+Saturday%2C…> > and the ALAC Liaison to GNSO workspace > <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct…> > . > > Essentially, we will be discussing 3 items: > > 1. GNSO Council's plan to deal with the diacritics issue in Latin > Script (encompassing the .quebec situation) > 2. GNSO Council's plan in addressing the community-developed SubPro > Outputs which either remain marked as "pending" or have not been adopted by > the Board? > 3. What GNSO wishes to share with us in moving the Registration Data > Request Service (RDRS) forward in terms of registrar on-boarding and > post-RDRS launch focus. > > > Kind regards, > > Justine Chew > ALAC Liaison to the GNSO > GNSO Liaison Report Workspace > <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct…> > ------ > >

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GNSO Council 25 and 26 Oct 2023 (at ICANN78) meeting agenda is out
by Justine Chew Nov. 4, 2023

Nov. 4, 2023

Dear all, Just a note to inform you that the agenda for the GNSO Council meeting on 25 Oct 2023 at 11:00 UTC and on 26 Oct 2023 at 11:15 UTC is out as follows. For a curated version of the highlighted agenda items, please visit this link <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct…> . *GNSO Council Meeting #10 of 2023 held on 25 Oct 2023 during ICANN 78, over 2 parts, and including a Council Wrap-up Session on 26 Oct 2023:* *Under Part 1 Agenda* *Full Agenda <https://community.icann.org/x/vYXxDg> | Documents <https://community.icann.org/x/toXxDg> | Motions <https://community.icann.org/x/uIXxDg>* - *Item 1: Administrative Matters* - Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects List <https://gnso.icann.org/en/council/project> and Action Item List <https://community.icann.org/x/RgZlAg>. - Item 3: Consent Agenda - *Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - GNSO Council Committee for Overseeing and Implementing Continuous Improvement (CCOICI) Recommendations Report on Review of the Statement of Interest (SOI) Requirements * - *Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Optional Topics for Potential Council Response* - *(i) Pilot Holistic Review Revised Draft Terms of Reference * - *(ii) Proposed Process for the Retirement of Non-Policy Recommendations * - *(iii) Continuous Improvement Program Community Coordination Group (CIP-CCG)* - Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - GNSO Liaison to the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Annual Report - *Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Diacritics Issue in Latin Script* - *Item 8: ANY OTHER BUSINESS* - 8.1 – Farewell to outgoing Councilors - *8.2 – Update - Open Contracted Party House DNS Abuse Calls* - 8.3 – GNSO Framework for Continuous Improvement Pilot Review - 8.4 – Open microphone (Continuation of anniversary session discussion / input *Under Part 2 Agenda* *Full Agenda <https://community.icann.org/x/tIXxDg>* - *Item 1: Seating of the 2022-2023 Council *INCOMING COUNCILORS: - - *Jennifer Chung*: SOI <https://community.icann.org/x/6AOuAg> Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) - *Lawrence Olawale-Roberts*: SOI <https://community.icann.org/x/PAF1Aw> Commercial Stakeholder Group (CSG - BC) - *Damon Ashcroft*: SOI <https://community.icann.org/x/WEqAAw> Commercial Stakeholder Group (CSG - IPC) - *Peter Akinremi*: SOI <https://community.icann.org/x/squjBg> Non-commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG) - *Item 2. Election of the Chair* - One nomination was received for this position from *Gregory DiBiase* of the Contracted Party House. Gregory circulated his candidate statement <https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/dibiase-s…>to the GNSO Council on 5 October 2023. - *Item 3. Election of GNSO Council Vice Chair 2022-2023* - Non-Contracted Party House - TBD - Contracted Party House - TBD - Item 4. ANY OTHER BUSINESS - TBD As usual Council meetings are open to observers; please check the ICANN78 schedule for meeting details and Zoom login links. Thank you for reading / considering. Justine Chew ALAC Liaison to the GNSO GNSO Liaison Report Workspace <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct…> ------

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