My apologies, I had meant to send this update to the correct mail list but was distracted earlier. Kind regards, Justine --------- ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Justine Chew <justine.chew.icann@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026, 13:45 Subject: GNSO Council has not supported the ALAC Rejection Action Petition on Transition Article 27.6 To: Alac-only <alac-only@icann.org> GNSO Council has just resolved not to join our petition as a Decisional Participant. Several SG/Cs understood and were in agreement with some of the points and concerns raised in the petition, but not enough for them to vote for Council to join us. Kind regards, Justine --------- On Fri, 5 Jun 2026, 05:02 Justine Chew, <justine.chew.icann@gmail.com> wrote:
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Kind regards, Justine
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Susan Payne via council <council@icann.org> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2026 at 04:28 Subject: [council] IPC Feedback on the Rejection Action Petition To: Anne ICANN via council <council@icann.org> Cc: GNSO-Secs <gnso-secs@icann.org>
I am sharing the IPC’s feedback on the merits of the GNSO becoming a Supporting Decisional Participant to the ALAC’s Rejection Action Petition, in accordance with the Solicitation of Community Feedback under Annex D section 4.3.3 Guidelines for the GNSO to fulfill Its role and obligation as a Decisional Participant in the Empowered Community.
While this is not a unanimous view, the majority of IPC members expressing a view do not support challenging the Board’s adoption of Transitional Bylaw Article 27.6 at this time, and thus do not support the GNSO becoming a Supporting Decisional Participant.
IPC members do support the ALAC concerns in principle, including those concerns set out at paragraph 3.3 of the ALAC Petition regarding failures to implement current Board-approved recommendations. Nonetheless, and after careful consideration, the IPC does not support the ALAC Petition, in order to give the timed solutions in Art 27.6 a chance to work. IPC strongly supports the accountability measures so carefully negotiated during the IANA transition. The measures have not yielded the results that we envisioned; it is time to right the ship, which the Board, Org and ICANN community are seeking to do via the CCG work on Reviews. We see this Transitional Bylaw as a measure that will allow that work to conclude. Our deference to the Board's decision to amend the Bylaws in this way is to give the Board the opportunity to govern as it deems necessary to uphold the practice of accountability as well as the spirit.
Article 27.6 replaces the current open‑ended Bylaws breach with guardrails by imposing a time‑limited pause (12 months, extendable once to a maximum of 24 months with SO/AC support or where community recommendations for a new Reviews framework are being taken forward) and a mandatory, sequenced restart of the Specific Reviews, if needed. In addition, rejection of the Bylaws amendment at this time might actually delay mandatory reviews for longer while the policy issues are worked out, and divert Board, Org and Community attention from the CCG’s work.
Susan Payne Head of Legal Policy
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