Dear Councillors,

Please find the action items arising from the GNSO Council meeting on 21 January 2016.

Item 2:Review of Projects List and Action List

Action item:
James Bladel and David Cake to reach out to IETF members with the view to a possible meeting in Marrakesh and a discussion as to how the two groups can stay coordinated going forward. Report back next Council meeting.

Item 4: VOTE ON MOTION – Adoption of Final Report from the Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues PDP Working Group

Action Items:

• In accordance with the ICANN Bylaws, ICANN Staff to prepare a Recommendations Report from the Council to the Board.
• Proposed policies will be posted for public comment prior to Board action, since these Policy Development Process recommendations constitute "policies that are being considered by the Board for adoption that substantially affect the operation of the Internet or third parties, including the imposition of any fees or charges” (per Section 6 of the ICANN Bylaws).(ICANN Staff)
• ICANN Staff to issue a call for volunteers for the Implementation Review Team, to be circulated at a minimum to the members of PPSAI PDP Working Group.

Item 5: VOTE ON MOTION – Charter for Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group on New gTLDs Subsequent Procedures

Action Items:

· ICANN staff to issue a call for volunteers for the PDP WG no later than seven days after the approval of this motion;

· The GNSO Council liaison to the Working Group, Paul McGrady, shall serve as the interim chair

Item 7: Vote on motion – Cross-Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability

Action Items:

• Circulate a clean copy of the letter and the table with a strong predisposition that it would be a final review, to the council mailing list for 24 hours, Friday 22 January 23:00UTC for final comments.
• Send the approved documents to the co-chairs of the CCWG on Accountability on behalf of the Council chair and vice chairs as the consolidated response to the Third Draft Proposal from the GNSO.

Note: Completed:

GNSO Council Response to the CCWG-Accountability has been posted on page
http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/correspondence

and can be directly viewed at:
http://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/gnso-council-to-ccwg-accountability-22jan16-en.pdf

Item 8: UPDATE & Discussion – Marrakesh Meeting Planning

Susan Kawaguchi and Amr Elsadr are working on the schedule and will circulate updates or draft plans to the council mailing list before the next Council call.

Please let me know if everything has been captured.
Thank you.

Kind regards,

Glen

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org