Dear Councillors, Please find the action items arising from the Council meeting on 15 January 2015. Please review and let me know if any have been misstated or left out. Please be reminded that the next Council meeting is on Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 12:00 UTC. In consultation with Jonathan, given that 11:00 UTC will conflict with the Policy Webinar, and given that the meeting is likely to last for one hour, the time has been moved to 12:00 UTC. Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List Arising from the Action List<https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Action+Items>: · Expert Working Group (EWG) The Board/GNSO group met last week via phone call and are working through the issues trying to determine which ones would be helpful to further consider prior to a PDP. Work will soon start on a Preliminary Issue Report and the draft charter. There will be further reporting during the GNSO working sessions in Singapore on Saturday 7 February 2015 · New GAC Leadership Jonathan Robinson contacted Thomas Schneider the new GAC chair and will follow up in Singapore with the GAC vice-chairs Item 3: Consent agenda Approve the GNSO Council Recommendations Report<http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/council-board-irtp-d-05jan15-en.pdf> to the ICANN Board concerning IRTP Part D No votes against and no abstentions All Councillors present voted to accept the consent agenda as it stands. Note: The outcome<http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg16986.html> of the vote that was conducted on the BWG NomCom report. It was encouraging and positive to see that that the new process, (voting outside of a Council meeting works) and enabled timely submission of input to the public comment period to the BWG NomCom<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/bwg-nomcom-2014-08-21-en> Item 4: UPDATE - Cross Community Working Group to develop a transition proposal for IANA stewardship on naming related functions Action items · Council must take part of its shared responsibility as a chartering organization to uphold the dialogue with the other parties including the Board. · Council could consider making a public statement where it applauds the work done from all the groups, (the numbers, names and the protocols) and offer a public statement of support recognizing the good work and the benefit from obtaining a coherent approach even if it has taken longer than the set-out timeline. The statement could also note that while meeting the timeline is important, not doing so in the interest of finding the right solution attests to the success of the multi stakeholder model. · Provide statement before next Council meeting. Avri Doria and Tony Holmes volunteered to work on the effort · Discussion item for Board GNSO meeting in Singapore on Sunday 8 February 2015 Item 5: UPDATE - Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability Action Item The GNSO Council is one of the group's chartering organizations and ultimately the work of the group will need to be signed off on by the GNSO through the GNSO Council. Important that the GNSO Council is continuously and properly appraised of this work and that Councillors take on the responsibility to keep their groups informed. Item 6: UPDATE - Prospective policy work on "name collision" Action Item: · Discussion item for Board GNSO meeting in Singapore on Sunday 8 February: Unusual practices unrelated to Names collision and which need to find a different home from name collision to be included. · Council supported sending the letter<http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/gnso-council-to-namazi-12jan15-en.pdf> subject to non-material edits and/or any other further comments by 24 hours, that is 1800 UTC Friday 16 January 2015. Item 7: DISCUSSION - Board resolution concerning future gTLD Application Rounds Action Item: Council supported sending the letter<http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/robinson-to-crocker-12jan15-en.pdf> subject to non-material edits and/or any other further comments by 24 hours, that is 1800 UTC Monday 19 January 2015 Item 8: UPDATE - GNSO / GAC Consultation Group and related work · Action Items: Consider reviewing the membership of the GAC GNSO Consultation group at the face to face meeting on Monday 9 February 2015 in Singapore. · Volker Greimann to provide an updated draft of the 'analysis of the GAC communiqué to advise the Board of policy implications' to the Council list in preparation for next Council meeting. · Councillors encouraged to comment on the list about which issues they would like to see addressed and proposals for analysis. · Item 9: Update: Planning for ICANN meeting in Singapore - key direction & themes Jonathan Robinson to send a letter to the Council list requesting suggestions for various topics to be discussed with the Board, the GAC and ccNSO. · Councillors are encouraged to send discussion topics to Jonathan Robinson, Volker Greimann and Glen de Saint Géry. Item 10: Any Other Business Action Items 10.1 - Correspondence with NGPC on IGO & RCRC. Update expected at Singapore meeting beginning February 2015. 10.2 - Consideration of a CWG to deal with new gTLD auction proceeds Item for the GNSO weekend working sessions: Brainstorming session followed by cross community working group to start as soon as possible, ideally at the Singapore meeting. 10.3 - Note that the Translation & Transliteration PDP WG Initial Report is out for public comment Councillors are encouraged to inform their groups and contribute to the public comment<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/transliteration-contact-initial-2014-1...> period. 10.4 - Request for extension of time for Issue Report on Rights Protection Mechanisms Mary Wong to resend the request<http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg16968.html> to the Council mailing list and submit it to the Council as a consent agenda item for the next Council meeting on 29 January 2015. 10.5 IDN Implementation Guidelines · Mary Wong to resend original request<http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg17000.html> from Akram Atallah. · Form an informal group of interested volunteers to provide input. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org<mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org> http://gnso.icann.org