Dear All, Please find below the discussion points / action items from today's GAC- GNSO Consultation Group's meeting for your review. If you have any comments / questions, please share those by Friday at the latest. Best regards, Marika Discussion Points Action Items 13/5: * Additional GAC member(s) may not be confirmed until London * Members of GAC-GNSO CG will have until Friday to comment on the action items coming out of this meeting - following that these will be considered agreed. * Consider having information / update out prior to the meeting in London to allow for more focused discussion Day-to-day work track * Travel funding has been confirmed for the GNSO liaison to the GAC for FY15 from the ICANN meeting in LA onwards (as a pilot project) * Consider discussing options A and F together as these are closely linked, and possibly C * Also consider working on E (awareness and notification) - highlighting existing mechanisms and possibly survey GAC members on the usefuleness of those * Option F not considered inconsistent with A - could be considered a resource to A * Consider presenting options A-F in London, noting that the proposal is to move forward initially with options A in combination with F, as well as E (survey). * Role / job specification of liaison is a critical element of option A * Confirm proposed approach with workplan and adapt workplan as necessary * Option E - summarize current options, followed by a survey (in combination with discussion in London - also to encourage participation) * Staff to support development of online survey in combination with a briefing document PDP work track * Break down phases along the same way as this is done in the GNSO PDP graphics - update for next version * Consider starting review of PDP chronologically - first steps first and work way through the existing process * Important to engage GAC at an early stage incl. at the Issue Report stage * Need to understand current mechanisms and determine whether anything else should be done, either from the GNSO or GAC side to facilitate early engagement * Streamlining of communication into GAC will be important element * Early stages of PDP are marked in the PDP early awareness documents shared with the GAC * Focus on issue identification / reporting, early opportunities for engagement that currently exist for the short term * Consider commenting / responding on the documents on the mailing list and then integrate those into the documents (in a timely manner)