Dear Councilors,

 

Please find the action items, as stated during the meeting, below arising from the GNSO Council meeting held on Wednesday 15 March and the GNSO Council Wrap Up held on Thursday 16 March 2023. Please refer to the Action Item page for updates on item completion progress. 

 

Please take note of the action items coming out of the Council meeting and the proposed timing for delivering on these actions.  

  Please refer to this page for the recent status updates on the Action items.

 

Please note that actions for all councilors are highlighted below.

 

GNSO Council Meeting, 15 March 2023

 

 

Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - Adoption of the Council Committee for Overseeing and Implementing Continuous Improvement (CCOICI) Working Group Self-Assessment (WGSA) Recommendations Report  (10 Minutes) 

Action Items:

  1. The GNSO Council directs GNSO Staff Support to implement the changes as outlined in the Recommendations Report and convey the survey tool technical requirements as outlined in section F to the relevant ICANN org department.
  2. The GNSO Council instructs ICANN staff to post the new version of the GNSO Operating Procedures, effective immediately upon adoption. [COMPLETE]
  3. The GNSO Council thanks the CCOICI for its work on this topic.

 

Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Next Steps for Consideration of Expired Domain Deletion Policy (“EDDP”) and Expired Registration Recovery Policy (“ERRP”) (15 minutes) 

Action Items: Support Staff to reach out to ICANN org colleagues on behalf of the Council to request further information on educational materials relating to the Expired Domain Deletion Policy (“EDDP”) and Expired Registration Recovery Policy (“ERRP”).

 

Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Review GNSO-owned projects that may impact SubPro timeline (10 minutes)

Action Items: 

  1. Staff to validate the list of Board dependencies are versus the projects that the Council is managing.
  2. Staff to circulate to GNSO Councilors some SubPro IRT principles.
  3. Staff to develop simple timeline slides for each project to be provided and updated at each GNSO Council meeting, beginning with the April 2023 meeting.

 

Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Continuation of Informal GNSO Council SubPro Discussion (30 minutes)

Action Items: 

  1. Councilors to volunteer on the GNSO Council email distribution list by COB 15 March 2023 if they wish to join the SubPro Triage Small Team. [COMPLETE – SEE BELOW]
  2. Support staff should convene the first meeting of the Small Team at the earliest possible opportunity. [COMPLETE – SEE BELOW]

 

Item 8: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Whois Disclosure System Next Steps (20 minutes)

Action Items: GNSO Council to consider response to the ICANN Board request to consider a PDP or other means to require, or strongly encourage, registrars to use the WDS, noting that the small team has already been assigned the task to how to best to promote and secure comprehensive use of the system, both by potential requestors as well as ICANN accredited registrars.

 

Item 9: ANY OTHER BUSINESS (15 minutes)

 

9.1 GNSO Chair Election Timeline Announcement

Action Items: None.

9.2 Policy Status Report on Policy and Implementation Working Group Final Recommendations Report

Action Items: Support staff to develop Policy Status Report (PSR) on the Policy and Implementation Working Group Final Report recommendations and provide the GNSO Council with regular updates on the approach and progress.

 

 

GNSO Council Wrap Up 

16 March 2023

 

Item 1: SubPro small team assignment (triage of pending recommendations)

 

Action Items: 

  1. Staff to capture volunteers from the email distribution list and add to the wiki at: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/SubPro+small+group+preliminary+review+of+the+38 [COMPLETE]
  2. Staff to send the small team assignment form to Council [COMPLETE].
  3. Small Team members to review the document at:https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2023/presentation/outputs-that-the-board-marks-as-pending-28feb23-en.pdf
  4. Staff to circulate a Doodle poll to schedule a Small Team meeting as soon as possible. Also include ICANN org and Board Liaisons. [COMPLETE]

 

Item 2: SubPro IRT composition – see: https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2023/draft/draft-open-rep-model-irt-15mar23-en.pdf 

 

Action Items: 

  1. Staff to add to the Draft Call for Volunteers that the suggested IRT open + representative model does not override avenues for raising issues to the GNSO Council as set forth in the PDP Manual of the GNSO Operating Procedures.
  2. Staff to clarify with GDS concerning how many representatives are envisioned in the IRT open + representative model.
  3. Staff to circulate a Draft Call for Volunteers to the Council for consideration and approval.

 

Item 3: GNSO Council review of the GAC Communique

 

Action Items: 

  1. Staff to circulate the revised template along with a call for volunteers once the Communique is published. [COMPLETE]
  2. Staff to schedule a meeting of the volunteers – including Mark Datysgeld, Susan Payne, Jeff Neuman as Liaison to the GAC, Manju Chen, Desiree Miloshevic, and Bruna Martin dos Santos.

 

Item 4: AOB

 

Action Items: 

  1. Thomas Rickert to draft for Council review a communication to ICANN org to thank them for their willingness to be more pragmatic. [COMPLETE]
  2. Councilors to provide an Account ID for ICANN Join per the email sent on 16 March (same user name/email that is used to register for ICANN meetings).