Dear Councillors, Please find the action items from the GNSO Council teleconference on 17 January 2013. Attached is a tracking list we will be using for the action items arising from the Council meetings. 1. Statement of interest updates Action: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben to provide an updated Statement of Interest 2. GNSO Pending Projects List <http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-projects-list.pdf> http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-projects-list.pdf Action: Thomas Rickert encouraged Council members to join the IGO-INGO Protections Working Group 3. Initiation of a Policy Development Process (PDP) on the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part D Action Item: Initiate the Policy Development Process and issue a call for volunteers for the IRTP D Working Group 4. Motion for Approval of a Charter for the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part D Working Group (WG) Action Item: · The GSNO Council approves the charter and calls for a volunteer as the GNSO Council Liaison to the IRTP Part D PDP Working Group. · The GNSO Council further directs that the work of the IRTP Part D WG be initiated no later then 14 days after the approval of this motion. 5. GNSO Council Review and SIC Update Action Item: Encourage Councillors to provide comments on the Wiki Work-in-Progress at this Wiki link: https://community.icann.org/display/GNSO/GNSO+Review+Plan+Framework 6. Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) Strawman Proposal and Defensive Registrations Discussion Action Item: · Councillors are invited to join the small group of volunteers, Mason Cole, Zahid Jamil, and Brian Winterfeldt to work together on formulating a substantive response with the emphasis on the role of the GNSO Council and attempting to answer some of the questions either by providing input in the letter or indicating how the GNSO Council might respond by developing appropriate policy. · The time line is end of February 2013 http://gnso.icann.org/en/node/36087 7. Response to the GAC Letter Action Item: Council agreed that the initial letter drafted by Jeff Neuman http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg13928.html could be tweaked and include an appendix describing the history of the issue and a letter from the chair of IGO-INGO Protections Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group and submitted to the Government Advisory Committee (GAC). 8. ATRT2 Developments Action Item: · Encourage / remind stakeholder groups to provide their endorsements as soon as possible. · Schedule a Special Council Meeting on Monday 21 January 2013 at 15:00 UTC. Council to review the endorsements against diversity criteria Council to propose up to two additional candidates if necessary to meet diversity criteria Council to Announce the list of endorsed candidates to the selectors. 9. Policy vs. Implementation <http://gnso.icann.org/en/node/36239> Action Item: Councillors are encouraged to continue the discussion on the Council mailing list. 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