Dear Council colleagues,

On behalf of Council leadership and the RDS PDP leadership team, I'm happy to provide a brief update, with more to follow soon.

Today we (Chuck Gomes, Marc Anderson, Michele Neylon and David Cake from RDS PDP leadership and Donna, Rafik and I from Council leadership) attended a call with Cherine Chalaby, Goran Marby, Chris Disspain, Becky Burr, Matthew Shears, and Avri Doria, as envisaged in Cherine's letter of 23 March (https://www.icann.org/resources/correspondence/1214411-2018-03-23-en) to discuss possible impacts of GDPR on GNSO policy. Our intention was to get a sense of what is on the Board's mind in this initial call and report this back so the community can decide who and how best to move forward on next steps.

We are working on a briefing note on this morning's discussions, with a view to posting that to the Council list later this week along with the recording of the call. Among us on the two leadership teams we cover many time zones, so please bear with us as we manage the logistics of cooperating across these to get the briefing note to the list as quickly as possible.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Heather Forrest