GAC GNSO 7-Jan

• 1. Summarise status quo

• + - 2. Scope of Work - Charter

• Remove "yet to be addressed" line

  + - "Initial proposal" -- are there any beyond the Reverse Liason?

  • Table -- circulated to the list
  • + - Reverse liaison -- on the table --
    • There may be opportunities for additional mechanisms
    • Looking for ideas to complement Reverse Liaison
    • Ask staff for proposals and ideas

  + - Highlight the problem of "different working methods"

  • Hard to maintain the current "episodic" norm
  • Matching GAC working methods with the current process
  • + - Amplify in "what it problem to be solved" -- perhaps add to a different section as well
    • Appears in Chronology section
    • Appears in Objectives -- perhaps clarify/amplify here
  • Taking the Joint Report as a given -- presuming that there's agreement

  Title - GAC-GNSO Consultation Group on GAC Early Engagement in Policy Development Processes

  Should "Who will be affected...." change to "Who is impacted by this issue and proposals resulting from this consultation group"?

  Clarify timeline

  Clarify whether this is a one-time effort, or an ongoing iterative project

  + - Stakeholders:

  • Iron out the differences between staff structure -- include Secretariats
  • Anyone interested in gtld policy -- explicitly mention GAC and GNSO

  + - Out Scope

• Timely exchange of information
• Delete the phrase from "out of scope”?

• + - 3. Way forward - work plan from here
• Approach in the charter is OK - two tracks w/leaders, work as a single group

• + - 4. Practical issues including meeting times
• Time of day works
• Meeting *dates* are more difficult -- maybe the focus of the Doodle poll?

• 5. AOB

• + - Actions
• All - review and propose edits -- by Friday this week
• Charter group - finalize draft for next meeting
• All - consider volunteering to lead one of the 2 tracks of work
• All - react to the questions in the table that Jonathan circulated to the list
• Chairs? -- get on the agendas of our respective org's - progress/update