Hi all,

Following our good discussion last Thursday, here are my summarized views and a proposed approach to the HIT/CC sessions for Marrakech:

1. The GNSO Council recommends consolidating several of the currently proposed sessions under a new session titled “Impact of GDPR and EPDP Phase 1 Recommendations on Existing Policies and Procedures.” This is consistent with Recommendation #27 from the EPDP Phase 1 report, and it will provide an opportunity for groups to air concerns about impacts while helping to identify and prioritize the universe of policies and procedures that will need review and possible updating. I believe the current items: Combatting Abuse with GDPR, Privacy-Proxy Implementation, and Across Field Validation would fit under this consolidated approach. I have attached the consolidated proposal for your reference. (This brings three proposed sessions down to one.)

2. Regarding the two proposals for a session on EPDP Phase 2 / Uniform Access Model, the EPDP Phase 2 work will have only been under way for 6 weeks when we arrive in Marrakech. The first substantive meeting of the EPDP Phase 2 Team will be May 16. As such, I think it’s premature to schedule a HIT/CC session and recommend we defer it to ICANN 66 in Montreal. The EPDP Phase 2 work will be mid-stream and progressing in Marrakech, so I do not see the value of a HIT/CC session at the end of June. It will absolutely be critical in Montreal, as the group should be closer to producing a concrete work product for the community to consider and to provide feedback. (This removes two proposed sessions.)

3. We discussed the possibility of moving sessions that are described as “updates” to a pre-meeting webinar, but we need to ensure community engagement is not stifled. It appears that ATRT3, SSR-2 and NomCom Review Implementation are all on track to produce reports prior to ICANN 66, and have stated this is an opportunity for in-person community education and input. That said, I believe these groups have also extended invitations to our respective community groups, so I’m wondering if these are duplicative. We have identified duplication as a real issue with ICANN scheduling, so I’d be interested in exploring whether these can be moved to interactive webinars in June, prior to Marrakech. (This could remove 1-3 sessions.)

4. The “Future of Multistakeholder Model Governance” session is necessary to complete the project kicked off in Kobe by years’ end. This is clearly a topic of interest to the entire community. (This session should be included.)

5. The “Enhance Effectiveness of Specific Review Recommendations and their Implementation” session is timely, particularly with the developments around the Board’s actions on the CCT-RT recommendations. (This session should be included.)

6. There was a good bit of discussion in Kobe around Universal Acceptance and it’s an issue that appears to be generating increased interests. With the meeting being held in Marrakech, it seems this is a good opportunity to continue discussions on the UA and IDN-related issues. (I’m ok with this session.)

7. Speaking personally, I don’t see the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) session as having broad community interest at this time. Perhaps this could be a regular session, but I don’t think it needs to be a HIT/CC session in Marrakech.  (This would remove one session.)

So, I think that would get us to a more manageable number of sessions while ensuring we are prioritizing subject matter, meeting space and time appropriately. To summarize, this would result in four HIT/CC sessions with the possibility of ATRT3, SSR-2 and/or NomCom getting added back in if they really need the F2F engagement outside of a webinar. Any other sessions could still be held in Marrakech, but not necessarily as a HIT/CC.

Thoughts?

I will complete the online forms as well.

Regards,

Keith

Dear Community Leaders:

Thank you for a productive call last week and apologies for the delay in getting this review form out to the group. Several topic proposals have been updated in the report at https://icann.wufoo.com/reports/icann65-proposed-topics. Updates are also included below for your quick reference.

Please use the online topic review form to indicate which topics you’d like to see at the meeting as soon as possible, and no later than Wednesday, 1 May.

Links:

Topic Review Form

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ICANN65topics

Topic Proposals

https://icann.wufoo.com/reports/icann65-proposed-topics

Current Block Schedule

https://meetings.icann.org/sites/default/files/65-blockschedule._v1.2.pdf

Updated Topic Proposals:

#1.  Across Field Address Validation - WHOIS Accuracy (RAA) 

Background: The IPC needs to understand the criteria associated with the AFAV RAA obligation that ICANN has set forth. This is a 6-year old RAA contractual obligation that is being ignored by ICANN. 

Session Goals: ICANN needs to provide an update on this project, including recent activities and well as the strategy to ensure the obligation will be enforced on the Registrars and associated timelines. 

Format: Open Session

#6. EPDP Phase 2 

Background: ICANN Board mandate. Extremely important given the UAM component and need to ensure proper timelines are enforced. 

Session Goals: Need to ensure proper ICANN resources, budget and timelines are assigned to Phase 2.

Format: Open Session

#8. ICANN - combating domain abuse with GDPR

Background: RA and RAA obligations to ensure ICANN compliance is enforcement the contractual obligations as well as what is ICANN Compliance strategy given GDPR

Session Goals: Need to understand ICANN's plan

Format: Open session

#11. Privacy and Proxy Implementation 

Background: PDP, Board Mandated

Session Goals: The IPC needs to understand why this program remains on hold due to GDPR and what specifically is the overlap or conflict between GDPR and PPP? 

Format: Open Session

Best regards,

Tanzanica

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