Dear All,

Please find attached the latest version of the GNSO Council’s Projects List for the meeting on 21 October 2020. Per the agenda, the Council will not review the project list in detail. However, after your preliminary review in advance of the meeting and should you find an area that you have questions or parts that need clarification, please send your questions or comments to the mailing list.

Agenda:

Key Structural Changes:

Project List (PL):

The summary page has adapted to reflect the program that the project belongs to and the Programs are now color coded. The old “LINK” column was deleted and the hyperlinks are now set on the Project Code. You will also notice that the Phase of the project was shifted to the right to better align with the meta data of the project like Duration, % Complete, Status and Health. The next version, the Phase column will likely be modified to reduce its footprint, but still maintain a marker for the phase for which the project belongs.
The “0 – Planning” section of the PL Summary Page is now a single line item which acts as a pointer to the PMT and ADR tools where planning is housed. The quantity of the “0 – Planning” section, as depicted on the graph, is based on an initial count of current items on the ADR delineated by non-PDP and PDP.
The “1 – Issue Identification” section of the graph is a count of the GNSO Council Action Items and the Transfer Policy – Issue Report. In the following months, we will release a next generation of the Action Items page, currently Wiki, to be align with these three planning tools. Stay tuned.

Action/Decision Radar (ADR):

As with the PL, the ADR also contains the Program color code and the Project Code to maintain continuity across the tools.

Program Management Tool (PMT):

The tool now contains the same Program management color coding of the PL and ADR. The first two pages of the PMT PDF are a summary view, while the remaining four are the fully expanded Program/Project/Task details.

Key Project Changes for this Period:

RPM WG Status upgraded to “Revised Schedule” after PCR adoption in September, however the Health remains “In-trouble”.
The SubPro WG public comment period closed on its proposed Final Report.
EPDP-Phase 2 – migrated to “6 – Board Vote” phase after adoption of the Final Report by the Council last meeting.
Action/Decision Radar:

Several items moved to the “1 Month to 3 Months” Range Marker: please review this section in detail as it covers work in front of the Council to the end of calendar year 2020.
New item added to the “1 Month to 3 Months” Range Marker: SCBO, is scheduled to spin up in November in preparation for the FY22 Budget and Operations planning cycle.
New item added to the “1 Month to 3 Months” Range Marker: GNSO Review3, Organizational Reviews are scheduled to start 5 years after the previous review report submitted to the ICANN Board.

Thank you.

Berry Cobb

GNSO Policy Consultant

Principal | BAC in Black Consulting

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