Hi Seb, 

Thank you for the reminder and sharing the proposed agenda for the upcoming GNSO-GAC bilateral.

Based on the proposed five items and considering meaningful two-way engagement, I believe that the following four topics may be considered with priority.

1) DNS Abuse; Proposed questions for the GAC:
2) RDRS / SSAD; Proposed questions for the GAC:
3) Urgent Requests / Law Enforcement Authentication; Proposed questions for the GAC:
4) Accuracy – Scope, Responsibility, and Feasibility; Proposed questions for the GAC:
From a prioritization perspective, I believe the above listed four topics seem more suitable for meaningful two-way engagement.   
Other items such as HRIA updates could be handled via email updates or other focused discussions, if needed.
Just my opinion !! 

inputs from other councillors are welcome :)

Regards,
Gaurav Vedi
GNSO CPH NCA


On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 6:23 AM Sebastien Ducos via council <council@icann.org> wrote:
Dear Council Members,

I did not want to further crowd our already packed SPS agenda in Barcelona, but it is time to look at our proposed agenda items for the next GNSO-GAC Bilateral meeting in Mumbai.
Before I reach out to Manal and Rida can you provide me with what you would like for me to propose as topics?

During our last meeting in Dublin we discussed:
  1. RDRS
  2. Urgent Requests / Law Enforcement Authentication
  3. Accuracy
  4. DNS Abuse
  5. HRIA GAC-Side

In Mumbai I proposed:
  1. DNS Abuse
    Depending on progress until then
  2. RDRS/SSAD
    Next Steps : outcome of the SPS
  3. Urgent Requests / Law Enforcement Authentication
    The GAC/PSWG should have updates. Are there questions we want to ask?
  4. HRIA
  5. Accuracy

As a reminder:
  1. We normally try to limit ourselves to 4 topics to give each time for discussions. We have fit 5 in the past but find ourselves needing to close discussions early and continue via email, which defeats to a certain extent the purpose of a bilateral.
  2. We want to promote 2-way discussions and move away from finding ourselves reporting to the GAC. We should have questions to the GAC and topic leaders are invited to interact with their peers GAC-Side to work on questions jointly.
  3. Topics proposed will be discussed with our joint leaderships before we add them to the agenda. Priorities and time allotted to each topic is agreed then, please appreciate not all our suggestions might make the cut.

I will be meeting with my GAC peers on 4 February (this time next week), Please provide your inputs by Monday 2 February 2026 COB.

Kindly,
Seb



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