Dear Councilors,

Please find the action items, as stated during the meeting, below arising from the GNSO Council meeting held on Thursday, 14 August 2025. 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 on 14 August 2025.

Item 3: Consent Agenda

Action Items: 

• GNSO Secretariat to communicate the Council’s decision to request a deferral of the CSC Effectiveness Review to the Board.
• GNSO Secretariat to communicate the outcome (appointed candidates) for the GNSO Non-Registry Liaison and Alternate to the CSC to the staff supporting the CSC, the appointees, and the other applicants.
• GNSO Secretariate to update GNSO Op Procedures to include new proposed Annex 7
• GNSO Secretariat to 1) inform the Board that GNSO Council does not object to the Board’s intention to reject pending Recommendations 3.3.5 and 3.3.7, on the basis that the have been superseded by subsequent developments and 2) confirm that the Council does not intend to develop Supplemental Recommendations for the non-adopted recommendations.

Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - Approval of IANA Review Function 2 (IFR2) Final Report

• GNSO Secretariat to communicate the Council’s decision to the Co-chairs of the IFRT and relevant ICANN staff

Action Items: Leadership and Support Staff will follow up on the recommendations from the vote. [Develop talking points for GAC for second recommendation]

• Action Items: Assign staff to lead a draft of the Preliminary Issue Report for DNS Abuse.

Item 7: COUNCIL VOTE - Approval of the Review of Reviews Cross Community Group Charter

• Action Items: Staff to inform the SO/AC Chairs that the Council has approved the RoR CCG Charter

Item 8: COUNCIL UPDATE - Privacy Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Implementation Work - Questions for GNSO Council

• Action Items: Staff to work with volunteers to set up regular meetings for Small Team Minus: Paul, Damon, Tomslin, Ashley, Vivek, Farzi, and Peter

Item 9: COUNCIL UPDATE: Outcome of Transfer Policy Review PDP Human Rights Impact Assessment

• Staff and Leadership to consider the operationalization discussion of GPI HRIA etc. in the operations procedures.

Item 10: Any Other Business 

10.1 - ICANN84 planning and GNSO Draft schedule

Action Items: 

• Add to September Council agenda to discuss topics for GAC agenda at ICANN84
• Staff to follow up with volunteers for sponsors of Council dinner at ICANN84, both Paul & Desiree raised their hands, email sent to see who is the “winner”. (Desiree)

10.2 - WSIS update (Desiree Miloshevic or Jennifer Chung)

10.3 - GNSO Liaison to the GAC update (Sebastien Ducos)

• Action Items: Desiree and Seb to email Council list with respective updates.

10.4 - Question re: GNSO Liaison to the GAC

• Action Items: Continue procedure discussion on the mailing list and Tomslin to resend the second question from the email.

Thank you.

Kind regards,

Terri

Policy Team Supporting the GNSO