Dear all, In the interests of concluding the Council call on time, staff had a few specific staff comments that we are sending around by email. We hope they are helpful. 1. The process question Insofar as there is concern amongst the GNSO community that there may now be several recent examples where the GNSO PDP seems to have been “compromised” (for lack of a better word) for one reason or another, what may be helpful to the Board, GAC and other community groups is for the GNSO to raise this concern by providing those examples. This can have the benefit of allowing each specific issue (whether that be IGO acronyms protection, privacy/proxy service accreditation implementation, etc.) to be considered on its substantive merits, and progress achieved on resolution on each front, while a more focused, if parallel, discussion is launched (especially with the Board) on the more general topic of overall process (e.g. how the Board treats GAC advice and GNSO recommendations, whether the Bylaws are sufficiently clear, what went wrong in the past and what can be improved, etc.). 2. The statement in the IGO small group proposal about GDD implementation Our understanding from discussions with GDD colleagues is that the point raised by Phil on GDD’s role vis-à-vis the small group proposal is that this part of the Next Steps section of the proposal was intended to allow GDD to pro-actively think through potential implementation challenges with all of the substantive recommendations in the proposal. This will allow for operational issues (if any, e.g. with implementing a “permanent claims” service) to be raised and understood more fully while discussions are ongoing, and not “after the fact”. In other words, our understanding is that the intention is for preparatory planning and discussions on how to implement likely recommendations to take place before formal adoption of any final recommendations by the Board. This can, of course, be clarified in the proposed Council response to the Board’s letter. Thanks and cheers Mary Mary Wong Senior Policy Director Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: mary.wong@icann.org Telephone: +1-603-5744889