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GNSO Council confirmation of SSC leadership
by Emily Barabas Dec. 11, 2025

Dec. 11, 2025

Hi all, During today’s GNSO Council meeting, the Council approved Carlton as SSC Chair and Sophie as Vice Chair. You can find the Council meeting agenda here: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Final+Proposed+GNSO… Kind regards, Emily Emily Barabas Policy Manager, GNSO Policy Development Support Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Phone: +31 (0)6 84507976 www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org/>

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CLOSED-CONSENSUS CALL - Deadline Wednesday, 17 July 2000 UTC - GNSO Council Liaison to the GAC
by Julie Hedlund July 17, 2024

July 17, 2024

Dear SSC members, Per the deadline the Consensus Call is now closed. No objections were received. The SSC has reached agreement by Full Consensus to recommend Sebastien Ducos as the candidate selected for GNSO Council Liaison to the GAC, subject to the GNSO Council’s confirmation. Note that the SSC further agreed that if Sebastien Ducos was unable to serve, Sophie Hey would be considered as an alternate candidate, if deemed appropriate by the GNSO Council as well as the candidate. A motion will be accordingly submitted to Council for confirmation at the 08 August meeting. Kind regards, Saewon & Julie From: Julie Hedlund via Gnso-ssc <gnso-ssc(a)icann.org> Reply-To: Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund(a)icann.org> Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 2:05 PM To: "gnso-ssc(a)icann.org" <gnso-ssc(a)icann.org> Subject: [Gnso-ssc] REMINDER-CALL - Deadline Wednesday, 17 July 2000 UTC - GNSO Council Liaison to the GAC Dear SSC members, This is a reminder. As a follow-up to the SSC call on Monday, 15 July 2024 at 1800 UTC, the SSC has reached preliminary agreement to recommend Sebastien Ducos as the candidate selected for GNSO Council Liaison to the GAC, subject to the GNSO Council’s confirmation. See the candidates’ skills at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RD6wC9dAVbqXnA5xeXXjGLmNZItOvGa-Oq6… [docs.google.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RD6wC9dA…>. Note that the SSC further discussed recommending that if Sebastien Ducos was unable to serve, Sophie Hey would be considered as an alternate candidate, if deemed appropriate by the GNSO Council as well as the candidate. 48-HOUR CONSENSUS CALL: If any SSC member objects to this recommendation, please respond on the mailing list no later than Wednesday, 17 July at 2000 UTC. If no objections are received, the SSC will consider this to be a Full Consensus recommendation and submit it to the GNSO Council with a motion for confirmation at its meeting on 08 August. Kind regards, Saewon & Julie

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REMINDER-CALL - Deadline Wednesday, 17 July 2000 UTC - GNSO Council Liaison to the GAC
by Julie Hedlund July 16, 2024

July 16, 2024

Dear SSC members, This is a reminder. As a follow-up to the SSC call on Monday, 15 July 2024 at 1800 UTC, the SSC has reached preliminary agreement to recommend Sebastien Ducos as the candidate selected for GNSO Council Liaison to the GAC, subject to the GNSO Council’s confirmation. See the candidates’ skills at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RD6wC9dAVbqXnA5xeXXjGLmNZItOvGa-Oq6… [docs.google.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RD6wC9dA…>. Note that the SSC further discussed recommending that if Sebastien Ducos was unable to serve, Sophie Hey would be considered as an alternate candidate, if deemed appropriate by the GNSO Council as well as the candidate. 48-HOUR CONSENSUS CALL: If any SSC member objects to this recommendation, please respond on the mailing list no later than Wednesday, 17 July at 2000 UTC. If no objections are received, the SSC will consider this to be a Full Consensus recommendation and submit it to the GNSO Council with a motion for confirmation at its meeting on 08 August. Kind regards, Saewon & Julie

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CONSENSUS CALL - Deadline Wednesday, 17 July 2000 UTC - GNSO Council Liaison to the GAC
by Julie Hedlund July 15, 2024

July 15, 2024

Dear SSC members, As a follow-up to the SSC call on Monday, 15 July 2024 at 1800 UTC, the SSC has reached preliminary agreement to recommend Sebastien Ducos as the candidate selected for GNSO Council Liaison to the GAC, subject to the GNSO Council’s confirmation. See the candidates’ skills at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RD6wC9dAVbqXnA5xeXXjGLmNZItOvGa-Oq6…. Note that the SSC further discussed recommending that if Sebastien Ducos was unable to serve, Sophie Hey would be considered as an alternate candidate, if deemed appropriate by the GNSO Council as well as the candidate. 48-HOUR CONSENSUS CALL: If any SSC member objects to this recommendation, please respond on the mailing list no later than Wednesday, 17 July at 2000 UTC. If no objections are received, the SSC will consider this to be a Full Consensus recommendation and submit it to the GNSO Council with a motion for confirmation at its meeting on 08 August. Kind regards, Saewon & Julie

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Post Call | GNSO Standing Selection Committee meeting | Monday, 15 July 2024
by Julie Bisland July 15, 2024

July 15, 2024

Dear all, All recordings for the GNSO Standing Selection Committee call held on Monday, 15 July 2024 at 18:00 UTC can be found on the agenda wiki page <https://community.icann.org/x/DIDKF> (attendance included) and the GNSO Master Calendar<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calen…>. These include: * Attendance (please let me know if your name has been left off the attendance list) * Audio recording * Zoom recording (including audio, visual, rough transcript & chat) * Transcript * Agenda & Notes/Action Items (if applicable) Thank you! Kind regards, Julie Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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Notes and Action Items | SSC - GNSO GAC Liaison candidates evaluation call | Monday, 15 July 2024
by Saewon Lee July 15, 2024

July 15, 2024

Dear All, Please see the following actions and notes for the SSC meeting (GNSO GAC Liaison candidate evaluation) on Monday, 15 July 2024, at 18:00 UTC. Kind regards, Julie H. and Saewon. Action Items and Notes GNSO GAC Liaison candidate evaluation on Monday, 15 July 2024, 18:00 UTC [Action Items] * GNSO Support Staff to send a Consensus Call email to the SSC list with the preliminary decision to put forward Sebastien Ducos as the GNSO GAC Liaison nominee, with Sophie Hey as alternate, and ask for non-objection in 48 hours. [Notes] 1. Welcome & SOIs - N/A 2. GNSO GAC Liaison Candidates Evaluation a. Review Survey Tool - There were 2 candidates: Sebastien Ducos, Sophie Hey. - The survey tool received 5 responses from the SSC members, but the tool is only a guide for the discussion, not to make a determination. - See attached file (pdf) for survey results - Ranking from the survey results: 1. Sebastien Ducos 2. Sophie Hey b. Suggested Candidate * - Both candidates were strong and the result spoke for itself. * - One of the deciding factors that SSC had identified was balancing time commitment when also involved in and selected for another group (Sophie Hey: PHR Group nominee) * - Sebastien Ducos was highly praised for his skills, background, and contribution to the internet community; No objections and all members were satisfied with the result. * - If possible and/or an alternate was needed, a suggestion was raised to add Sophie Hey as an alternate – no significant concerns were raised and the Team decided to add an alternate as a suggestion/advice to the GNSO Council. c. Timing of Consensus Call & GNSO Council Confirmation - If no objections, a motion will proceed for the GNSO Council to vote at the 8 August Council Meeting - Plenty of time as the GAC Liaison’s role/activity does not go into effect until the Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2024. - Staff to send a Consensus Call email to the SSC list with the preliminary decision to put forward Sebastien Ducos as the nominee, with Sophie Hey as alternate, and ask for non-objection in 48 hours. (~17 July). ACTION ITEM: GNSO Support Staff to send a Consensus Call email to the SSC list with the preliminary decision to put forward Sebastien Ducos as the GNSO GAC Liaison nominee, with Sophie Hey as alternate, and ask for non-objection in 48 hours. 3. Next Steps for PHR Nominees - The current list (below) went through without objections and now is in motion - A placeholder motion was submitted on 8 July and now amended (15 July) with 7 nominees and an alternate for the GNSO Council’s consideration (in the order of ranking): 1. Akinmoyeje Benjamin (AF) 2. Julf (Johan) Helsingius (EU) 3. Sophie Hey (EU) 4. Tony Holmes (EU) 5. Anil Jain (AP) 6. Caleb Ogundele (NA) 7. Marie Pattullo (EU) *Hector Ariel Manoff as alternate, if the need were to arise - The names were submitted in the order of ranking just in case there are more than 21 candidates from each SO/AC to help make the choice/selection simpler. - Technically, the SSC’s selection process for PHR is now complete and no further work is needed from SSC on the PHR candidate selection process. However, once the nominations are received, each SO/AC Chair now needs to review the list of nominated applicants for final selection. 4. AOB - There are no more meetings scheduled for SSC in the immediate future as there are no further selection processes planned.

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Survey Tool CLOSED | SSC - GNSO GAC Liaison candidates evaluation call | Monday, 15 July 2024
by Saewon Lee July 15, 2024

July 15, 2024

Dear SSC Members, The survey tool is now CLOSED. Staff will share the results during our meeting at 18:00 UTC. Kind regards, Julie and Saewon. p.s. Thank you Arsène for your meeting apology and the survey response. From: Arsène Tungali via Gnso-ssc <gnso-ssc(a)icann.org> Reply-To: Arsène Tungali <arsenebaguma(a)gmail.com> Date: Monday, July 15, 2024 at 11:46 PM To: Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund(a)icann.org> Cc: "gnso-ssc(a)icann.org" <gnso-ssc(a)icann.org> Subject: [Gnso-ssc] Re: REMINDER-SURVEY TOOL & Proposed Agenda | SSC - GNSO GAC Liaison candidates evaluation call | Monday, 15 July 2024 Colleagues, I would like to register my apologies for today's meeting. But i have voted on the survey and I believe the vote will be straight forward during the call. Regards, Arsène ------------------------ **Arsène Tungali* I am a social entrepreneur running both a non profit [rudiinternational.org]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/rudiinternational.org/__;!!PtGJab4!_-J-8…>and a business [smart-kitoko.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.smart-kitoko.com/__;!!PtGJab4!_-J-8b…>! Link up with me on LinkedIn [linkedin.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.linkedin.com/in/arsene-tungali-34482…>, Twitter [twitter.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/twitter.com/arsenebaguma__;!!PtGJab4!_-J…> and Facebook [web.facebook.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/web.facebook.com/atungali__;!!PtGJab4!_-…> Le lun. 15 juil. 2024 à 15:16, Julie Hedlund via Gnso-ssc <gnso-ssc(a)icann.org<mailto:gnso-ssc@icann.org>> a écrit : Dear all, We have only 3 responses so we’ll leave the survey open for a bit longer for those who have yet to respond. Kind regards, Saewon & Julie From: Julie Hedlund via Gnso-ssc <gnso-ssc(a)icann.org<mailto:gnso-ssc@icann.org>> Reply-To: Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund(a)icann.org<mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org>> Date: Friday, July 12, 2024 at 4:53 PM To: "gnso-ssc(a)icann.org<mailto:gnso-ssc@icann.org>" <gnso-ssc(a)icann.org<mailto:gnso-ssc@icann.org>> Subject: [Gnso-ssc] REMINDER-SURVEY TOOL & Proposed Agenda | SSC - GNSO GAC Liaison candidates evaluation call | Monday, 15 July 2024 Dear SSC members, REMINDER-SURVEY TOOL: A Survey Monkey tool is open for SSC members to use to help facilitate discussion on the 2 GNSO candidates for GNSO Liaison to the GAC at our meeting on Monday, 15 July at 1800 UTC. Please provide your response to the tool by 16:00 UTC on Monday, 15 July so we may compile results by the time of the meeting. See:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SP25M3S [surveymonkey.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.surveymonkey.com/r/SP25M3S__;!!PtGJa…> and the list of candidates and skills in the spreadsheet at:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RD6wC9dAVbqXnA5xeXXjGLmNZItOvGa-… [docs.google.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RD6wC9dA…>. Please see below the proposed agenda for the meeting. Kind regards, Saewon & Julie Proposed Agenda GNSO GAC Liaison candidates evaluation on Monday, 15 July 2024, 1800 UTC 1. Welcome & SOIs 2. GNSO GAC Liaison Candidates Evaluation a. Review Survey Tool b. Suggested Candidate c. Timing of Consensus Call & GNSO Council Confirmation 3. Next Steps for PHR Nominees 1. Possible Need for Further Ranking 2. Amended Motion 4. AOB _______________________________________________ Gnso-ssc mailing list -- gnso-ssc(a)icann.org<mailto:gnso-ssc@icann.org> To unsubscribe send an email to gnso-ssc-leave(a)icann.org<mailto:gnso-ssc-leave@icann.org> _______________________________________________ By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance with the ICANN Privacy Policy (https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy) and the website Terms of Service (https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos) You can visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.

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REMINDER-SURVEY TOOL & Proposed Agenda | SSC - GNSO GAC Liaison candidates evaluation call | Monday, 15 July 2024
by Julie Hedlund July 15, 2024

July 15, 2024

Dear SSC members, REMINDER-SURVEY TOOL: A Survey Monkey tool is open for SSC members to use to help facilitate discussion on the 2 GNSO candidates for GNSO Liaison to the GAC at our meeting on Monday, 15 July at 1800 UTC. Please provide your response to the tool by 16:00 UTC on Monday, 15 July so we may compile results by the time of the meeting. See:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SP25M3S [surveymonkey.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.surveymonkey.com/r/SP25M3S__;!!PtGJa…> and the list of candidates and skills in the spreadsheet at:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RD6wC9dAVbqXnA5xeXXjGLmNZItOvGa-… [docs.google.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RD6wC9dA…>. Please see below the proposed agenda for the meeting. Kind regards, Saewon & Julie Proposed Agenda GNSO GAC Liaison candidates evaluation on Monday, 15 July 2024, 1800 UTC 1. Welcome & SOIs 2. GNSO GAC Liaison Candidates Evaluation a. Review Survey Tool b. Suggested Candidate c. Timing of Consensus Call & GNSO Council Confirmation 3. Next Steps for PHR Nominees 1. Possible Need for Further Ranking 2. Amended Motion 4. AOB

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SURVEY TOOL OPEN Re: GNSO Liaison to the. GAC Candidates Evaluation
by Julie Hedlund July 11, 2024

July 11, 2024

Dear all, A Survey Monkey tool is now open for SSC members to use to help facilitate discussion on the 2 GNSO candidates for GNSO Liaison to the GAC at our meeting on Monday, 15 July at 1800 UTC. Please provide your response to the tool by 16:00 UTC on Monday, 16 July so we may compile results by the time of the meeting. See: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SP25M3S and the list of candidates and skills in the spreadsheet at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RD6wC9dAVbqXnA5xeXXjGLmNZItOvGa-Oq6…. NOTE: This tool not a consensus call or a vote. Please let us know if you need any assistance. Kind regards, Saewon & Julie

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CLOSED - CONSENSUS CALL - Deadline Thursday, 11 July 1200 UTC - Pilot Holistic Review Team GNSO Nominees
by Julie Hedlund July 11, 2024

July 11, 2024

Dear SSC members, Per the deadline the Consensus Call is now closed. No objections were received. The names of the nominees and alternate were agreed by full consensus. An amended motion with the names (to replace the placeholder motion) will be accordingly submitted to Council for confirmation at the 18 July meeting. Kind regards, Saewon & Julie From: Julie Hedlund via Gnso-ssc <gnso-ssc(a)icann.org> Reply-To: Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund(a)icann.org> Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 at 11:09 AM To: "gnso-ssc(a)icann.org" <gnso-ssc(a)icann.org> Subject: [Gnso-ssc] REMINDER - CONSENSUS CALL - Deadline Thursday, 11 July 1200 UTC - Pilot Holistic Review Team GNSO Nominees This is a reminder. Please see below. Kind regards, Saewon & Julie From: Julie Hedlund via Gnso-ssc <gnso-ssc(a)icann.org> Reply-To: Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund(a)icann.org> Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 7:09 AM To: "gnso-ssc(a)icann.org" <gnso-ssc(a)icann.org> Subject: [Gnso-ssc] CONSENSUS CALL - Deadline Thursday, 11 July 1200 UTC - Pilot Holistic Review Team GNSO Nominees Dear SSC members, As a follow-up to the SSC call on Monday, 08 July 2024 at 1800 UTC, the SSC has reached preliminary agreement to recommend the following list of candidates as the 7 GNSO nominees for the Pilot Holistic Review Team (in alphabetical order). See the candidate materials on the wiki at: https://community.icann.org/display/GSSC/Pilot+Holistic+Review+-+2024. 1. Akinmoyeje Benjamin (AF) 2. Julf (Johan) Helsingius (EU) 3. Sophie Hey (EU) 4. Tony Holmes (EU) 5. Anil Jain (AP) 6. Caleb Ogundele (NA) 7. Marie Pattullo (EU) Note that the GNSO Council will be requested to notify staff supporting the PHR that in case one of the above nominees cannot serve on the PHR Team, Hector Ariel Manoff is an alternate PHR Team nominee for the GNSO. 48-HOUR CONSENSUS CALL: If you object to this recommendation, please respond on the mailing list no later than Thursday, 11 July at 1200 UTC. If no objections are received, the SSC will consider this to be a Full Consensus recommendation and submit it to the GNSO Council with an amended motion for confirmation at its meeting on 18 July. Kind regards, Saewon & Julie

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