Dear Councilors,

Please find the action items, as stated during the meeting, below arising from the GNSO Council meeting held on Wednesday, 27 October 2021. Please refer to the Action Item page for updates on item completion progress.

Please take note of the action items coming out of the Council meeting and the proposed timing for delivering on these actions.  

Please ensure your wiki logins are up to date as all Action Items have been assigned to councilors and/or staff and posted on the Action Item wiki page here. If you are logged into the wiki when you go to that page, your name will be highlighted alongside the action item assigned to you. Please refer to this page for the recent status updates on the Action items.

Please note that actions for all councilors are highlighted below.

GNSO Council Meeting Part 1

3.1 - Approval of the GNSO Council liaison to the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Operational Design Phase - Jeff Neuman (SOI)

Action Items:

1. The GNSO Council instructs the GNSO Secretariat to communicate that Jeff Neuman has been appointed as the GNSO Council Liaison to the SubPro ODP to the ICANN org ODP team. [COMPLETED]
2. The GNSO Council instructs the GNSO Secretariat to inform the nominated candidate that he has been selected to fulfil the responsibilities defined in the EoI. [COMPLETED]
3. The GNSO Council requests the GNSO Secretariat to send a response to those applicants who were not nominated, thanking them for their interest and encouraging them to apply for  future opportunities as they arise. [COMPLETED]

3.2 - Approval of the GNSO liaison to the Governmental Advisory Committee - Jeff Neuman (SOI)

Action Items: The GNSO Council leadership team will inform the GAC leadership team accordingly, and will coordinate with Jeffrey Neuman as well as the GAC leadership team and GAC Secretariat on next steps and the continued successful implementation of this role. [COMPLETED]

• Did capture the action to have ongoing coordination, but not deadline.
• Do we need to keep this?  Maybe more about how the GNSO expects its Liaison to behave in its role.   Primarily operational.

Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE - EPDP Phase 2A Final Report (30 minutes)

Action Items: Staff Support Team to develop GNSO Council Recommendations Report to the ICANN Board for Council review

• Unless it is urgent to have this for the November meeting we can tee it up for the December meeting.
• Should be no real surprises in here.
• In parallel the process will start on posting the recommendations for public comment.

Item 5: COUNCIL VOTE - Revised GNSO Councilor Job Description for the Nominating Committee (20 minutes)

Action Items:  A Council Small Team (including Mark Datysgeld, Maxim Alzoba, Olga Cavalli) to revise the NomCom Appointee job description as well as the relevant motion to address issues including affiliation.

• Doodle poll out to get that group to meet.
• There is a draft briefing document for leadership review.
• Date of 18 November seems appropriate.
• Add Flip and Tomslin to the volunteers.

GNSO Council Meeting Part 2

4.1 Confirm GNSO Chair as interim GNSO Decisional Participant Representative to the Empowered Community. 

Action Item: Per the process and criteria for the selection of GNSO representative to the Empowered Community Administration that were adopted by the GNSO Council on 28 June 2017, the GNSO Chair is confirmed by the GNSO Council upon election as the interim representative to the EC Admin, until such time as the GNSO leadership team has had an opportunity to meet and decide who is taking on this role.  [COMPLETED]

• Add an action for leadership to informally meet to confirm who will be in that role.
• See the description at: https://gnso.icann.org/en/council/process-criteria-gnso-representative-empowered-community-administration-28jun17-en.pdf [gnso.icann.org]

 GNSO Council Wrap-Up Agenda - 28 Oct 2021 

1. Seek vice-chair for Standing Committee on ICANN Budget & Operating Plan, to prepare for a chair succession plan for the FY24 cycle.

Action Items: Call for Councilors to consider volunteering as vice-chair for the Standing Committee on ICANN Budget & Operating Plan.

• The is in progress.  We have time on this one.

2. Potential next steps for the Board response to the Council's letter regarding its "Request for Continued Deferral of IDN Implementation Guidelines v4.0"

Action Items: CPH Councilors to provide suggestions on the next steps regarding the Board Letter on IDN Implementation Guidelines 4.0.

• Seems that the CPH councilors will take this back to their group to talk about the approach and decide whether to push this to the EPDP.
• Could be most expeditious for the EPDP team to develop the response.  Could suggest that to the CPH councilors.

3. Suggestion to assign a Council liaison to Registration Data Accuracy Scoping Team (as well as request for non-objection to adding  Alternates and a Vice-Chair (seehttps://mm.icann.org/pipermail/council/2021-October/025122.html)

Action  Items: The GNSO Secretariat to notify Michael Palage that the GNSO Council has appointed Olga Cavalli as Liaison to the Registration Data Accuracy Scoping Team and that there was no objection from the Councilors to the addition to Alternates and Vice-Chair. [COMPLETED]

5. GNSO Council response to the GAC Communique - call for volunteers

Action Items: Small group (Jeff Neuman, Olga Cavalli, Paul McGrady, Philippe Fouquart, Antonia Chu, Desiree Miloshevic) to draft the GNSO Council response to the GAC Communique

6. Next Steps: Discussion paper [gnso.icann.org] on Modifying gTLD Consensus Policies

Action Items: 

1. Council Leadership to reach out to the SGs/Cs to ask volunteers from Councilors who would like to join the small team to review the Discussion Paper on Modifying gTLD Consensus Policies and develop a draft response.  Volunteers thus far are John McElwaine, Maxim Alzoba, Stephanie Perrin, Antonia Chu, Thomas Rickert.
2. Council leadership to notify ICANN org that a small team has formed to develop a response but that additional time may be needed

• Messages should come from Philippe.
• Staff has posted drafts in Slack.

7. Next Steps: Board letter [gnso.icann.org] regarding EPDP Phase 1 Recommendation 12 

Action Items: Small Team (Sebastien Ducos, Greg deBiase, Thomas Rickert, Manju Chen) to meet with Becky Burr concerning the Board letter regarding EPDP Phase 1 Recommendation 12 to confirm common understanding (small team to meet with Becky as a first step to confirm common understanding.

• Staff has initiated a Doodle poll for the small team to meet to discuss the approach for the meeting with Becky.

8. Potential Council next steps regarding DNS abuse

Action Items: Small Team (Thomas Rickert, Mark Datysgeld, Wisdom Donkor, Kristian Ormen, Maxim Alzoba, Sebastien Ducos) to draft potential GNSO Council next steps regarding DNS abuse.

• Staff to develop a briefing document for the small team, but fewer time constraints.
• This came up as a request to at least appear to make progress – it was added to the wrap up agenda by request from Mark Datysgeld.
• In bilaterals with the GAC we’ve been reminded by suggestions of a possible request for an issue report.

AOB:

1. NCPH publicly archived mailing list

Action Items: GNSO Secretariat to establish a publicly archived mailing list for NCPH Councilors. [COMPLETED]

2. Council photo - non-objection to posting on GNSO site

Action Items: Staff to publish the photo on the GNSO web site and Twitter account. [COMPLETED]

Additional Action Items:

SPS

• Follow up message draft for Philippe to send out on the conversation of threats and opportunities.
• Prep call before that session, perhaps next Monday, 08 November?  That would be very welcome.
• Agenda went out in the invitation to the SG/C chairs. 
• Staff will get the agenda and slides out by this Friday.

Thank you!

Terri