Dear DNS Abuse Small Team,

Just a kind reminder on the pending action items below.

1. AI: Each group to come up with top 3 priorities for next week’s meeting that are appropriate for policy development.
2. AI: Leadership and staff to provide priorities list for discussion and reaction from input already received.
3. AI: Staff will start preparing the draft motion to present to small team to provide feedback

With regards to AI 2, please see the following document for your further review:

• Draft Report [docs.google.com] (Section 2)

Kind regards,

Feodora on behalf of the Support Team

From: John Emery via gnso-dnsabuse-smallteam <gnso-dnsabuse-smallteam@icann.org>
Reply to: John Emery <john.emery@icann.org>
Date: Friday, 18 July 2025 at 17:39
To: "gnso-dnsabuse-smallteam@icann.org" <gnso-dnsabuse-smallteam@icann.org>
Subject: [gnso-dnsabuse-smallteam] 17 July 2025 Meeting Notes

Dear DNS Abuse Small Team,

Please see attached below the meeting notes and action items from our 17 July meeting of the DNS Abuse Small Team. Please look out for an email from Jen later today with the leadership and staff priorities list based on Small Team input thus far for discussion.

DNS Abuse Small Team Wiki [icann-community.atlassian.net]

Slides [icann-community.atlassian.net]

ACTION ITEMS

AI: Each group to come up with top 3 priorities for next week’s meeting that are appropriate for policy development.

AI: Leadership and staff to provide priorities list for discussion and reaction from input already received.

AI: Staff will start preparing the draft motion to present to small team to provide feedback

1. Welcome
2. Update on Preliminary Recommendations Document

• Update on the Draft Report [docs.google.com] with additional two recommendations for discussion 
• The chart at the end of the document was removed and the full list of gaps in the matrix [docs.google.com]
• Updated the list of gaps in the matrix including the phases and merged agreed upon cells and integrated CSG and NCSG input

3. Discussion on Issue Report

• Previously 1 issue report resulted in 1 PDP, this Issue report will look more deeply in the list of gaps and will encompass all of that
• Result of this one issue report will be a narrowly chartered PDP on one or two topics/gaps to complete the work expeditiously. 
• Subsequent PDPs could be initiated from this original issue report when the initial PDP completes it work

4. Discussion on “Prioritization”

• How would we like to prioritize there have been indications of SGs/Cs for what should be prioritized
• Who will decide? This will be a Council decision, the Small Team can recommend from the prioritization exercise. 
• Good to have priorities here to then make a recommendation to Council and then while Issue report is being worked on there may be other factors to consider
• Suggestion to launch next PDP during public comment period going with a single issue report
• As PDP is underway the next step can be a chartering team for the next set of work

In the Chat: CSG priorities are:   

1.           Associated domain check. 

2.           Continual review and update of DNS abuse definitions.

3.           Validation of registrant details.

4.           Access to bulk / API registrations

• Caution prioritization exercise from Council that a continuing small team. A PDP, a charter drafting team, a small team, and another PDP there could be resource constraints
• How this Small Team wants to prioritize with the At Large priorities in the slides [icann-community.atlassian.net]
•  ALAC input based on the matrix and were careful not to go into solutions to provide input on the gap itself. The possible solutions list can be litigated later as it is a raw list based on the matrix. 
• ALAC list could be revised based on how the inputs will be resolved and the priorities of the other groups
• Do we prioritize low hanging fruit? For those items for the first PDP, do they necessarily need to be topics where PDPs are appropriate to address? 
• Calling for the issue report will lay foundational work for the first and subsequent PDPs. This will be looking at whether the gaps will be fit for PDP. 
• AI: each group come up with top 3 priorities for next week’s meeting that are appropriate for policy development
• Also CPH DNS Abuse working group will have something coming along soon 
• Determine what is a PDP focus and what is for other parts of the community. We can cover more gaps if some things should just be referred back to ICANN compliance
• Intention is to focus on what makes most sense for inclusion in PDP specifically, framing for low hanging fruit. PDP work with topics that are important and impactful, wide agreement, and perhaps easier to implement
• Reminder: only two more meetings with this Small Team
• AI: Leadership and staff to provide priorities list for discussion and reaction from input already received
• There is a time crunch meeting on the 31st need to have finalized recommendation and matrix for the annex for the 4 August deadline
• Limiting scope to topics appropriate for policy development and put in writing the low hanging fruit
• AI: Staff will start preparing the draft motion

5. AOB- Next Steps

John R. Emery, Ph.D.

Policy Development Support Senior Specialist

Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO)

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

www.icann.org