<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An excellent and informative summary, thanks for doing it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 23, 2018, at 16:51, Tatiana Tropina <<a href="mailto:tatiana.tropina@GMAIL.COM" class="">tatiana.tropina@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear NCSG members,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">as a preparation for tomorrow's policy call, I would like to share some information about the previous GNSO meeting to refresh your memory (in case you listened to the previous GNSO meeting) or provide enough information and summary so you can easily catch up. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The previous GNSO meeting took place on December, 21st. If you are interested in details of the discussion, you can check the <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/minutes-council-21dec17-en.pdf" class="">minutes of the meeting</a>. I will try to link the following summary with the documents and discussion to what is going to happen at the GNSO meeting and to the discussions at our policy call tomorrow.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In summary, at the previous meeting, the GNSO at the meeting on 21st of December, 2017:<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) Adopted the <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/draft-icann-budget-operations-charter-11dec17-en.pdf" class="">GNSO Standing Committee on Budget & Operations (SCBO) Charter</a> on an interim basis. You might remember NSCG leadership issued a call for volunteers for SCBO, and we have several GNSO councillors from NCSG participating in that committee. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2) Discussed the updates on the charter drafting exercise related to the next</div><div class="">steps for the ICANN Procedure of Handling Whois conflicts with Privacy. As a result of the discussion, the drafting team members were tasked to share draft charter and identified questions in charter with their SG/Cs for feedback, review this input and finalize the charter for GNSO Council consideration. This issue is now taken to the Council vote for the next meeting on 30th of January, 2018 - you can check the <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+30+January+2018" class="">motion</a> for the Council vote. I believe we are going to discuss this on the NCSG policy call tomorrow.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3) Planned for the ICANN 61. The Councillors were updated on the progress of the ICANN61 block schedule and nature and number of cross-community topics being discussed. Currently, the schedule is still work in progress and will be posted in February. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">4) Discussed the updates on progress for the “Review of all Rights Protection</div><div class="">Mechanisms in all gTLDs” data request. The updates were provided by the three co-chairs of the Review of all Rights Protection Mechanisms in all gTLDs (RPM) PDP WG, Phil Corwin, Kathy Kleiman and J. Scott Evans. You can check their <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/presentation-rpm-rfp-timeline-19dec17-en.pdf" class="">presentation</a> for the update. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">5) Discussed under the AOB agenda item the update on the progress of the Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team. As you might remember, this Review Team was suspended at the time of ICANN60 meeting, and this suspension raised a lot of controversies as to how the review teams can operate within the empowered community and what the ICANN Board's role in the suspension could possibly be, if at all. </div><div class="">As an action item from this discussion, the Standing Selection Committee, as requested by the GNSO Council, was tasked to review the 3 remaining GNSO SSR2 candidates against the skills matrix developed by SSR2 RT members following ICANN60, and to provide their findings to the GNSO Council. However, it was also generally agreed that the reasons for suspending SSR2 RT activity were unclear not only to the GNSO Council, but to the SSR2 RT members themselves.</div><div class="">The next GNSO meeting has under the <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Final+Proposed+Agenda+30+January+2018" class="">Agenda</a> item 9 the review of Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2-RT) Letter from GNSO Council to SO/AC leadership.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you are interested in any item of the summary in more detail, you can listen to the <a href="http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-council-21dec17-en.mp3" class="">MP3</a> or <a href="https://participate.icann.org/p3i6wszs6m8/" class="">Adobe connect recording</a> of the previous GNSO meeting on 21st of December, or read the <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/transcript-council-21dec17-en.pdf" class="">transcript</a> here. Furthermore, if you have any questions - I or other GNSO councillors from NCSG are very happy to answer them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See you tomorrow on the NCSG policy call! Also, as a reminder, you can always follow the next GNSO meeting on 30th of January at 22:00 UTC by listening live via this <a href="http://stream.icann.org:8000/stream01.m3u" class="">link</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Warm regards,</div><div class="">Tatiana Tropina </div></div>
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