Dear Councillors, Please find the action items arising from the GNSO Council meeting on 13 November 2014. Item 4: MOTION - Adoption of a Charter for a Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability Action Item: Thomas Rickert was nominated as the GNSO Council liaison and GNSO co-chair to the CWG Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability Each GNSO Stakeholder Group should identify one member for the CWG by 20 November 2014 taking into account the charter requirement. Item 5: MOTION - Changes to GNSO Operating Procedures & Working Group Guidelines to Address Issues relating to Waiver of Motion Deadlines, GNSO Council Voting Outside a Council Meeting & Working Group Consensus Levels Action Item The GNSO Council instructs ICANN staff to post the new version of the GNSO Operating Procedures and GNSO Working Group Guidelines, effective immediately upon adoption. Item 6: - UPDATE - Name Collision Action Item All constituencies/stakeholder groups should discuss the topic within their respective groups to ascertain what, if any policy development is deemed necessary and be prepared for a discussion at the next Council meeting in December 2014. Item 7: UPDATE - GNSO / GAC Consultation Group and related work Action item Inform the GAC that Volker Greimann is no longer a member of the GAC GNSO Consultation group and has been replaced by Carlos Raúl Gutierrez. Item 9.1 - Any Other Business Action Item Inform the different groups that the Council Liaisons have been confirmed. Curative Rights Protections for IGO/INGOs PDP - Council Liaison - Susan Kawaguchi Data & Metrics for Policy Making - Council Liaison - Volker Greimann Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues PDP - Council Liaison - James Bladel Translation & Transliteration PDP - Council Liaison - Amr Elsadr Geographic Regions WG - Council Liaison - Cheryl Langdon-Orr CWG on a Framework for CWG Principles (co-chair John Berard) - Council Liaison - Avri Doria CWG to develop a framework for the use of country and territory names as TLDs - co-chair position - Carlos Raúl Gutierrez GNSO Council liaison to the ccNSO - Thomas Rickert 9.2 Correspondence with New gTLD Program Committee NGPC on IGO & RCRC. Action item Staff to pursue the issue internally with the appropriate staff when a response can be expected. 9.3 Skill sets for Nominating Committee. Action Item Finalise the skill set for the Nominating Committee on the Council mailing list 9.4 IGO/INGO Curative Rights Protection WG letter<http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg16859.html> requesting Mason Cole to engage with the GAC on certain questions regarding the GAC Los Angeles Communique. Action item Council is encouraged to take a decision as soon as possible because of the urgency from the perspective of the working group. Mason Cole is ready to step forward but needs the go-ahead from the Council . Confirm on mailing list. 9.5 Council in attendance to review informal notes of the Council Development Session held on Friday, 17 October 2014. Action item Circulate notes to the Council mailing list and start discussion on the mailing list. Please let me know if all the action items have been captured or if you have any questions. Thank you very much. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org<mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org> http://gnso.icann.org