Dear Councillors, Please find the action items arising from the Council meeting on 10 April 2014. Arising from the Action List<https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Action+Items>: London Meeting Volker Greimann will take the lead on planning the GNSO Council sessions for the ICANN meeting in London. Marika Konings will share the survey link https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JB5MDBH with the Council. Councillors are encouraged to respond to the survey so that the input can be used to respond to the needs of the Council and community to improve the meetings. Councillors are encouraged to provide input to the Council mailing list to develop the agenda with items they wish to add, remove or revise. Multi-stakeholder Innovation Panel public comment period Councillors are encouraged to comment on the draft response to the Multi-stakeholder Innovation Panel public comment period. http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg15985.html Item 4: DISCUSSION - GNSO Council advice regarding Specification 13 of the new gTLD registry agreement Action Item: · Jonathan Robinson and Thomas Rickert to work together to formulate the questions to put to all the groups that will then individually discuss them, as well as discuss alternatives/solutions that could be offered to the Board in case there is a conflict with existing policy recommendations. · Thomas Rickert will reach out to the original working group members and Councilors to find out more about the original discussions that led to the policy recommendations that were adopted. * Prepare a motion to be voted on which needs to be submitted to the Council by 28 April for consideration at the 8 May 2014 meeting. Item 5: DISCUSSION - Internet Governance Issues Action Item: Jonathan Robinson committed to talking to and co-ordinating with the Supporting Organisations and Advisory Committees and keeping the Council informed of developments. Item 6.2 Submission of Council input to the call for Public Comment on ICANN Future Meetings Strategy<http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/meetings-strategy-25feb14-en.htm> Maria Farrell, helped by James Bladel, volunteered to take the lead on the response to the future meeting strategy public comments. 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 http://gnso.icann.org