Dear Council colleagues In follow up to Heather’s previous note of 11 April 2018, please find attached a briefing that provides more information about the call between the Board, Council leadership and the RDS PDP WG leadership team. In addition, the briefing also discusses possible next steps and to that end we are seeking Council consideration of a number of options that have been proposed. We ask that you all take some time to review the briefing and encourage you to provide your thoughts on the list. We also note that this will be a discussion item for our Council meeting scheduled for 26 April 2018. Thanks Heather, Rafik and Donna From: council [mailto:council-bounces@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Heather Forrest Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 4:51 AM To: GNSO Council List <council@gnso.icann.org> Cc: RDS-Leaders-List <gnso-next-gen-rds-lead@icann.org>; Chuck <consult@cgomes.com> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [council] Update on RDS/GDPR discussions with Board members 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<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_resources_correspondence_1214411-2D2018-2D03-2D23-2Den&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=CwipU91YB6EkpFXK9ynnT_QUef4yC5p7jpsDm8cU97g&m=MV-GHKhWT2qjQQ0rw6marQreZCxAFLQUNJw-B12yRDs&s=9QcUagvqV7nuIgDHSNU5Rm2idkDD-7-ENbSWC58Q9Ng&e=>) 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