Dear SSC Members,

Please find below the high-level notes and action items from today’s SSC meeting on Wednesday, 30 July at 20:00 UTC.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Caitlin

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SSC Meeting on Wednesday, 30 July 2025 at 20:00 UTC

Agenda

1.⁠ ⁠Welcome & SOIs

2.⁠ GNSO Non-Registry Liaison and Alternate to the Customer Standing Committee (CSC) 2025 Candidates Evaluation

a. Review of Survey Results

• Survey results were shared via email prior to this meeting and can also be downloaded via the wiki page: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/NIBWEg
• Survey recently closed after being open for one week (21 July – 28 July) opened on 21 July and closed on 28 July – was open for 1 week
• For this nomination, there were three candidates: Hago Elteraifi Mohamed Dafalla, John Gbadamosi, and Anil Jain
• The rankings from the survey were as follows:

(1) John Gbadamosi

(2) Anil Jain

(3) Hago Elteraifi Mohamed Dafalla

• As a reminder, the rankings are used as a discussion guide to support the decision-making process and are not decisive.
• John Gbadamosi is currently serving the CSC as the non-registry alternate.
• Anil Jain’s CV was received after the poll opened but is now available. Those who completed the survey early may have noted that this was missing.
• The CSC could choose two candidates – one as a non-registry liaison and one alternate.
• These appointments are both optional (but recommended); however, neither appointment is mandatory.

b. Discussion and Selection of Candidates

• No objections to submitting John Gbadamosi as the Non-Registry Liaison to the CSC. 
• CSC notes support for appointing an alternate.
• CSC support for Anil Jain as the non-registry alternate to the CSC.

3.⁠ ⁠Next Steps

- Timing of Consensus Call & GNSO Council Confirmation

• ACTION: Support Staff to send consensus call with John Gbadamosi as the choice for non-registry liaison and Anil Jain as choice for the alternate. [COMPLETE]
• Timeline – With the decision today, Support Staff to send consensus call for 48 hours following this meeting. Consensus call to close 1 August 2025.
• If no objections, the confirmed candidates will be sent to both the CSC support team for their information and the GNSO Council for their confirmation during the consent agenda portion of their 14 August meeting.
• Terms of these new CSC roles will begin on 1 October.

• Upcoming Review of Reviews Work

• The Review of Reviews work is ongoing, and there will soon be a need to select two members from the GNSO to serve on the Review of Reviews Cross Community Group.
• Further details will be sent as they become available, but the selection process of the GNSO representatives will be done by the SSC. The candidates do not need to be GNSO Councilors but could be GNSO Community members.
• Leadership and staff support believe it prudent to schedule a placeholder meeting to select candidates.
• Tentatively, we have identified 19 August so that the SSC can confirm and select candidates by 22 August.
• ACTION: Support Staff to send a Doodle Poll to identify a time.

4.⁠ ⁠AOB