Dear DT Members, Please see for your consideration the following proposed agenda for our first weekly meeting on Wednesday, 31 August at 1300 UTC. The meeting notice has been sent separately. Please let us know of any suggested changes to the agenda. The proposed agenda also is posted on the wiki meeting page at: https://community.icann.org/display/GBIDT/31-08-2016+GNSO+Bylaws+Implementat.... For reference concerning action items, please see below the notes from the last meeting. Proposed Agenda: 1. Roll Call/Statements of Interest 2. Review Agenda 3. Confirm Steve DelBianco and Amr Elsadr as Co-Chairs 4. Confirm date, time, frequency of DT meetings 5. DT to continue review of table summarizing Bylaw changes affecting the GNSO and consequential procedural changes/additions potentially needed 6. Next steps? Best regards, Julie Julie Hedlund, Policy Director GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team, Monday 22 August 2016 Actions/Discussion Notes 1. Chair selection Action Items: Keep open the call for volunteers until the next call. Current volunteers: Steve DelBianco and Amr Elsadr. 2. Timing of meetings Action Items: Staff will send a new Doodle Poll to select the time and date for recurring weekly meetings, avoiding Monday and Friday. 3. Guidelines for Operations Discussion Notes: Follow the GNSO Working Group Guidelines. Not all rules would apply. 4. Overview/scope of work Action Items: DT members should go through the table (attached) in detail looking at possible new obligations or rights, and procedures. Steve Metalitz will send an alternate version of an analysis table for comparison. Discussion Notes: · Implementation plan is due 30 September. · There will be subsequent work for language/procedures. · Role of the GNSO as a decisional participant in the empowered community – staff assumption in the absence of any other mechanism the decision making may be the GNSO Council. · Current Bylaws on managing the policy development process -- some assumptions could be inconsistent; change role of Council in the Bylaws? Are new duties related to the PDP? Can we assume they will be discharged by the Council or are they distinct? · Possible two tracks (from Steve DelBianco) 1) simple implementation -- assume the GNSO Council -- thresholds and procedures to exercise prerogatives as decisional participant; 2) raise the question of whether some other means of sounding out the intentions or decisions of the constituencies should be constructed (not through Council)? Note that we should coordinate with the GNSO Review WG -- re: operating procedures and/or Bylaws. · Or could have 3 options (from Steve Metalitz): 1) GNSO Council, current voting mechanisms; 2) GNSO Council, different voting mechanisms; 3) Some other method. Filter questions: Does it fit in PDP or not? Such as the ICANN budget. What can we take off the table (that is already part of the PDP)? · Think of the Council as a conduit.