[council] Action Items from Council meeting 15 January 2015

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Councillors,

Please find the action items arising from the Council meeting on 15 January 
2015. Please review and let me know if any have been misstated or left out.

Please be reminded that the next Council meeting is on Thursday, 29 January 
2015 at 12:00 UTC. In consultation with Jonathan, given that 11:00 UTC will 
conflict with the Policy Webinar, and given that the meeting is likely to last 
for one hour, the time has been moved to 12:00 UTC.


Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List
Arising from the Action 
List<https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Action+Items>:

·        Expert Working Group (EWG)

The Board/GNSO group met last week via phone call and are working through the 
issues trying to determine which ones would be helpful to further consider 
prior to a PDP. Work will soon start on a Preliminary Issue Report and the 
draft charter. There will be further reporting during the GNSO working sessions 
in Singapore on Saturday 7 February 2015

·
New GAC Leadership

Jonathan Robinson contacted Thomas Schneider the new GAC chair and will follow 
up in Singapore with the GAC vice-chairs

Item 3: Consent agenda

Approve the GNSO Council Recommendations 
Report<http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/council-board-irtp-d-05jan15-en.pdf> to 
the ICANN Board concerning IRTP Part D

No votes against and no abstentions
All Councillors present voted to accept the consent agenda as it stands.



Note: The 
outcome<http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg16986.html> of 
the vote that was conducted on the BWG NomCom report.  It was encouraging and 
positive to see that that the new process,  (voting outside of a Council 
meeting works) and enabled timely submission of input to the public comment 
period to the BWG 
NomCom<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/bwg-nomcom-2014-08-21-en>

Item 4: UPDATE  - Cross Community Working Group to develop a transition 
proposal for IANA stewardship on naming related functions

Action items


·        Council must take part of its shared responsibility as a chartering 
organization to uphold the dialogue with the other parties including the Board.



·        Council could consider making a public statement where it applauds the 
work done from all the groups, (the numbers, names and the protocols) and offer 
a public statement of support recognizing the good work and the benefit from 
obtaining a coherent approach even if it has taken longer than the set-out 
timeline. The statement could also note that while meeting the timeline is 
important, not doing so in the interest of finding the right solution attests 
to the success of the multi stakeholder model.



·        Provide statement before next Council meeting.

             Avri Doria and Tony Holmes volunteered to work on the effort



·        Discussion item for Board GNSO meeting in Singapore on Sunday 8 
February 2015

Item 5: UPDATE - Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability
Action  Item


The GNSO Council is one of the group's chartering organizations and ultimately 
the work of the group will need to be signed off on by the GNSO through the 
GNSO Council.

Important that the GNSO Council  is continuously and properly appraised of this 
work and that Councillors take on the responsibility to keep their groups 
informed.

Item 6: UPDATE  - Prospective policy work on "name collision"
Action Item:

·        Discussion item for Board GNSO meeting in Singapore on Sunday 8 
February: Unusual practices unrelated to Names collision and which need to find 
a different home from name collision to be included.



·        Council supported sending the 
letter<http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/gnso-council-to-namazi-12jan15-en.pdf> 
subject to non-material edits and/or any other further comments by 24 hours, 
that is 1800 UTC Friday 16 January 2015.


Item 7: DISCUSSION - Board resolution concerning future gTLD Application Rounds
Action Item:

Council supported sending the 
letter<http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/robinson-to-crocker-12jan15-en.pdf> 
subject to non-material edits and/or any other further comments by 24 hours, 
that is 1800 UTC Monday 19 January 2015
Item 8: UPDATE - GNSO / GAC Consultation Group and related work

·        Action Items:

Consider reviewing the membership of the GAC GNSO Consultation group at the 
face to face meeting on Monday 9 February 2015 in Singapore.

·        Volker Greimann to provide an updated draft of the 'analysis of the 
GAC communiqué to advise the Board of policy implications' to the Council list 
in preparation for next Council meeting.

·        Councillors encouraged to comment on the list about which issues they 
would like to see addressed and proposals for analysis.



·
Item 9: Update: Planning for ICANN meeting in Singapore - key direction & themes

Jonathan Robinson to send a letter to the Council list requesting suggestions 
for various topics to be discussed with the Board, the GAC and ccNSO.

·        Councillors are encouraged to send discussion topics to Jonathan 
Robinson, Volker Greimann and Glen de Saint Géry.

Item 10: Any Other Business
Action Items

10.1 - Correspondence with NGPC on IGO & RCRC.
Update expected at Singapore meeting beginning February 2015.

10.2 - Consideration of a CWG to deal with new gTLD auction proceeds

Item for the GNSO weekend working sessions: Brainstorming session followed by 
cross community working group to start as soon as possible, ideally at the 
Singapore meeting.

10.3 - Note that the Translation & Transliteration PDP WG Initial Report is out 
for public comment

Councillors are encouraged to inform their groups and contribute to the public 
comment<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/transliteration-contact-initial-2014-12-16-en>
 period.


10.4 - Request for extension of time for Issue Report on Rights Protection 
Mechanisms
Mary Wong to resend the 
request<http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg16968.html> to 
the Council mailing list and submit it to the Council as a consent agenda item 
for the next Council meeting on 29 January 2015.


10.5

IDN Implementation Guidelines

·        Mary Wong to resend original 
request<http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg17000.html> 
from Akram Atallah.

·        Form an informal group of interested volunteers to provide input.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Glen

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
http://gnso.icann.org