Dear Anne and Farzaneh, Thank you both for your interest and concerns regarding this process. The process that has been shared is only to alert the GNSO Council that a SPIRT member has identified a potential issue. The SPIRT’s process in identifying an issue and conferring it with the GNSO Council has been identified and shared here previously. The SPIRT is asking the GNSO Council to determine how the GNSO Council will confer to the SPIRT whether it may discuss an identified issue or not with ICANN org. The SPIRT acknowledges that this process is not a binding decision-making mechanism. If the GNSO Council believes an issue identified by the SPIRT that has been designated as time-sensitive is not within scope, warrants further discussion by the GNSO Council, or is a policy issue, members of the GNSO Council have the full authority to: * Withhold their consent and request that the item be discussed further at an upcoming meeting; * determine that the alert is not within scope and direct SPIRT not to discuss the item with ICANN org; * designate the topic as a policy issue and note that the GNSO Council may consider it for future policy work. The SPIRT Leadership Team believes that it is appropriate to alert the GNSO Council of potential policy issues if such circumstances occur. The SPIRT Leadership Team also acknowledges that the SPIRT may not discuss the issue any further upon the GNSO Council’s direction. I would like to emphasize that this process we are discussing is designed for the GNSO Council to give (or not give) the SPIRT approval to discuss a SPIRT submitted alert with ICANN org and is not a binding decision making mechanism. Lawrence ----- [Image] [Image] Lawrence Olawale-Roberts Global President & Managing Director Mobile: +234 8070892705, (0)8056 3333 97 Lawrence@microboss.org<mailto:Lawrence@microboss.org> [Image] [Image] …collaboration to enhance communication. [Image] https://www.microboss.org<https://www.microboss.org/> | [Image]<https://www.facebook.com/microbosstech/> [Image]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/microbosstech/> [Image]<https://mobile.twitter.com/microbosstech> [Image]<https://www.instagram.com/microbosstech/?hl=en> [Image]<https://www.youtube.com/@microboss> This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be protected by legal, professional or other privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not store it, copy it, re-transmit it, use it or disclose its contents, but should return it to the sender immediately and delete your copy from your system. The views expressed are those of the sender and his company MicroBoss. Kindly note that whilst we scan all e-mails for viruses, we cannot guarantee that any e-mail is virus-free. | Do consider the environment before printing this email. ________________________________ From: farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, May 8, 2026 9:36:31 PM To: Terri Agnew <terri.agnew@icann.org> Cc: Anne ICANN <anneicanngnso@gmail.com>; Lawrence O. Olawale-Roberts <lawrence@microboss.org>; council@icann.org <council@icann.org> Subject: Re: [council] Re: Fw: Post Call | Standing Predictability Implementation Review Team (SPIRT) | Thursday, 07 May 2026 Absolutely agree with Anne and there should be no urgent request or consensus through non-object. Farzaneh On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 2:05 PM Terri Agnew via council <council@icann.org<mailto:council@icann.org>> wrote: Resending to the GNSO Council mailing list that should be used: council@icann.org<mailto:council@icann.org> Please make sure to update your mailing list records. Thanks all! Terri From: Anne ICANN via council <council@icann.org<mailto:council@icann.org>> Reply-To: Anne ICANN <anneicanngnso@gmail.com<mailto:anneicanngnso@gmail.com>> Date: Friday, May 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM To: "lawrence@microboss.org<mailto:lawrence@microboss.org>" <lawrence@microboss.org<mailto:lawrence@microboss.org>> Cc: "council@gnso.icann.org<mailto:council@gnso.icann.org>" <council@gnso.icann.org<mailto:council@gnso.icann.org>> Subject: [council] Re: Fw: Post Call | Standing Predictability Implementation Review Team (SPIRT) | Thursday, 07 May 2026 Lawrence, If you have a revised form for transmission of matters to Council, please forward that ASAP. The form should be revised to provide that NO MATTER INVOLVING A POLICY ISSUE may be subject to "non-objection" or "Council consent after 72 hours". As to Category 2, and Operational Matter which has a material affect on applicants, I think it's ok for SPIRT to discuss that under its Charter, as long as the proposed solution that is recommended by SPIRT ends up before Council for approval. Please forward the revised form right away. Again, SPIRT has ZERO authority to deliberate on policy issues without full consideration of such issues at the Council level. Anne Anne Aikman-Scalese GNSO Councilor NomCom Non-Voting 2022-2026 anneicanngnso@gmail.com<mailto:anneicanngnso@gmail.com> On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 4:37 PM Lawrence O. Olawale-Roberts via council <council@icann.org<mailto:council@icann.org>> wrote: Dear Council Colleagues, I would like to draw our attention to the expedient need for Council to quickly decide on adopting the standard and expedited means by which issues seeking SPiRT's consideration are forwarded to them for work to start. Despite the SPiRT ratifying and approving the method by which an issue could be referred to Council for Conscent to have such a matter looked into my SPiRT, the fact that Council is yet to formally adopt a position on how SPiRT should "Alert" Council on a pending issue came to fore severally. It is expedient the Council adopts a position on how it would choose to assign work to the SPiRT team going forward as the new gTLD round is now opened and active. kindly take time to review the recording of the SPiRT's meeting held an hour back. I would follow-up with a proposal for our next Council meeting. Regards. Lawrence. ----- Error! Filename not specified. Error! 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Kindly note that whilst we scan all e-mails for viruses, we cannot guarantee that any e-mail is virus-free. | Do consider the environment before printing this email. ________________________________ From: Julie Bisland via Gnso-spirt <gnso-spirt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-spirt@icann.org>> Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2026 10:34:06 PM To: gnso-spirt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-spirt@icann.org> <gnso-spirt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-spirt@icann.org>> Cc: GNSO-Secs <gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>> Subject: [Gnso-spirt] Post Call | Standing Predictability Implementation Review Team (SPIRT) | Thursday, 07 May 2026 Dear all, All recordings for the Standing Predictability Implementation Review Team (SPIRT) call held on Thursday, 07 May 2026 at 20:00 UTC can be found on the agenda wiki page [icann-community.atlassian.net]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/KAAv...>. You can also access via the GNSO Calendar 2026 [gnso.icann.org]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calend...>. Agenda wiki page includes: * Attendance * Audio recording * Zoom recording (including audio, visual, rough transcript, and chat.) * Agenda and Notes/Action Items For additional information, you may consult the mailing list archives [lists.icann.org]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/lists.icann.org/hyperkitty/list/gnso-spir...> and the main wiki page [icann-community.atlassian.net]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/nwB2...>. Thank you. 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