<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi all,</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">like last time, I am trying here to give here a summary of GNSO council meeting in Puerto Rico and also adding the wrap-up session as it includes several follow-up of ICANN meeting from the council. That can give you a snapshot about the ongoing discussions and activities within the GNSO council.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You can find all details about the 2 sessions here inclulding agendas, recordings, transcripts and material:</font></div><div><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Public Council meeting: <a href="https://61.schedule.icann.org/meetings/647702" target="_blank">https://61.schedule.i<wbr>cann.org/meetings/647702</a><br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Wrap-Up session: <a href="https://61.schedule.icann.org/meetings/647707" target="_blank">https://61.schedule.i<wbr>cann.org/meetings/647707</a></font></li></ul></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There were other sessions below but I am not reporting them.</font></div><div><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sunday working session <a href="https://61.schedule.icann.org/meetings/647692" target="_blank">https://61.schedule.ic<wbr>ann.org/meetings/647692</a><br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">GNSO-ccNSO councils meeting: <a href="https://61.schedule.icann.org/meetings/647694" target="_blank">https://61.schedule.i<wbr>cann.org/meetings/647694</a><br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">GNSO-GAC meeting: <a href="https://61.schedule.icann.org/meetings/647652" target="_blank">https://61.schedule.i<wbr>cann.org/meetings/647652</a><br></font></li></ul></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">GNSO Public meeting:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><strong><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Discussion with ICANN Finance on the Draft FY19 ICANN Operating Plan and Budget</font></strong></li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Xavier Calvez the ICANN CFO made presentation giving update about the FY19 budget ongoing process as the public comments period ended few days ago prior to Puerto Rico meeting. He also presented the proposals about the replenishment of reserve fund (a public comment is ongoing on the matter) and responsed to council questions.</font></ul><ul><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As a follow-up, the council standing committee on budget and operations (SCBO) was tasked to help on facilitating the collection and channelling of any Council questions or comments for ICANN Finance. It will also develop the Council input concerning Reserve Fund replenishment strategy (there was no objection to move forward) </font></ul><ul><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Discussion on </span>Updated Charter for the Cross Community Engagement Group on Internet Governance (CCWG-IG)</b><br></font></li></ul><p></p>
</div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The discussion regarding the new vehicle (Cross-Community Engagment Group) to replace the CCWG-IG continued from the last council call and the floor was opened to get questions from councillors. Some asked for <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">clarification about the level of resources expected to be allocated to the<span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span lang="EN-GB">Cross Community Engagement Group on Internet Governance but also about the expenditures related to IG activities of ICANN (which is beyond CCWG-IG remit).</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Per </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/council/resolutions#201708" target="_blank">resolution</a> voted in last August</span><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/council/resolutions#201708" target="_blank"></a><span lang="EN-GB">,
the GNSO is no longer a Chartering Organization of the CCWG-IG and the discussion will continue with regard joining the new vehicle or not. The GNSO council tasked the liaison to ccNSO and CCWG-IG to liaise with ccNSO </span>to resolve concerns identified by the ccNSO Council. The withdrawal doesn't impact the CCWG-IG activities and the WG is still active.</font></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Discussion on the GNSO Council’s input to the consultation on the Fellowship Program</b><br></font></li></ul></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A consultation on fellowship program was initiated by ICANN seeking input from the different SO/AC. The council tasked a small group of councilors to work on response from GNSO council perspective to add metrics and setting realistic expectations from the program. A strawperson/draft comment was presented during the meeting to seek feedback from council. The group will work and circulate an updated version taking into account the comments received from the councillors,</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><ul><li><strong><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Review of the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP)</font></strong></li></ul></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">GDD as responsible of policy implemention sent a </span><a class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226external-link" href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/irtp-to-gnso-council-28feb18-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(59,115,175);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">letter</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> to the GNSO Council, noting that the updated IRTP went into effect on 1 December 2016 and therefore, the policy was in place for over 12 months and so possible review. It suggested that a Post-Implementation IRTP Status Report be drafted and published for public comment. The report and a summary of public comment would be provided to the GNSO Council by end of May. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">GNSO Council is planning to consider next steps, timing and provide guidance to ICANN on if, how, and when the review of the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP)
should take place, taking into account the ongoing discussion on the post-implementation policy review framework as well as the transfer issue that is being considered by the Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Implementation Review Team.</font></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></b></div><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Any other business / open mic:</b><br></font></li></ul></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There was a short update from <p class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(66,66,66);display:inline"> </p><p class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(66,66,66);display:inline">GNSO Review Working Group regrading the progress to date of the implementation work of review recommendations, and clarified the dependencies on which further recommendations are linked. </p></font></div><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As usual during public meetings, there was open mic for the community. There were some comments about the discusssion on Policy Development Process (PDP) improvement aka PDP 3.0 and there was a general welcoming for such effort, suggesting some ways to move forward.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Wrap-up session</font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><b><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">ICANN62 Meeting Planning</font></span></b></li></ul></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">As usual in the last day of the ICANN meeting, the work already begun for the next one, ICANN62 in Panama. </font><span style="color:black">Council Leadership</span><span style="color:black"> attended the ICANN62 planning meeting, communicated concerns raised by Council during the wrap-up session. The leadership also started the preparatory work with staff for GNSO schedule. </span><span style="color:black">One task to follow-up is </span><span style="color:black">to develop plan for conducting outreach at ICANN meetings, especially for the Policy Forum.<span class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"></p><ul><li><b><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Customer Standing Committee and IANA Functions Reviews</font></span></b></li></ul></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">With regard to IANA functions, there will be soon 2 planned reviews on Customer Standing Committee and the IANA Functions . As there is risk of overlap, a small team was tasked to make proposals to avoid the overlap and coordinate with ccNSO on the matter.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><b><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Board request regarding Emojis</font></span></b></li></ul></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Council received a board request regarding Emojis in domain names (For more details, <span style="color:black"><span class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2017-11-02-en#1.e" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/resourc<wbr>es/board-material/resolutions-<wbr>2017-11-02-en#1.e</a></span>). As first action, the council will send response to acknowledge the receipt. There was discussion about the issue as request was not clear for thee council. </font></div><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">T<span style="color:black">he Staff was tasked </span><span style="color:black">to summarize Board resolution and SSAC Advice for small team of councilors to consider. Then that small team will </span><span style="color:black"> liaise with the
SSAC and ccNSO to respond to Board resolution. </span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><ul><li><b><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Council liaison to new gTLD Subsequent Procedures WG</font></span></b></li></ul></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">The council continued the task to appoint or reappoint new liaisons to PDP WGs. It was decided to have 2 councillors serving jointly as liaisons to </font><span style="color:black">the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures
PDP WG as it has several working tracks (5) and may be difficult for one person to cover all (attending the plenaries and WTs calls in weekly basis).</span> </font></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Subsequent Procedures PDP /Right Protections Mechanisms Consolidated timeline</span></b> </font></li></ul></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As follow-up of sunday session, the council discussed the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP and Rights Protection Mechanisms WG timelines as there may be some dependencies between the 2 PDPs and so possible impact about the delivery of the recommendations and implementation.</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Council liaisons to the respective PDP WGs were tasked<span style="color:black"> to review Sunday Working Session and extract notes and action items and then</span><span style="color:black"> work with PDP WG leadership to expand timeline to include potential implementation steps/scenarios.</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">GNSO Review of GAC Communique</span></b><br></font></li></ul></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">As usual for every ICANN meeting, the GNSO council planned to respond to GAC communique regarding the points concerning the PDPs. A group of c</span><span style="color:black">ouncillors volunteered</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">to provide a draft response for council consideration. The response should be sent to board prior to Board-GAC call in April in order to be used as input and give board guidance about PDPs.</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><b><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">PDP 3.0</font></span></b></li></ul></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As follow-up of the GNSO council strategical meeting in January and discussion about PDP improvement, the GNSO leadership took the initiative to make changes to the usual Sunday working session agenda and allocated the whole morning to discuss the improvement of PDP, inviting WGs leaderships to give their input about issues. There was brainstorming exercise to explore solutions to the different identified issues.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In order to keep the momentum, the council tasked staff<span style="color:black"> to consolidate input and comments into a Google document and also </span><span style="color:black"> to propose next steps (e.g., identify goal for ICANN62 and plan backwards). Later on, the c</span><span style="color:black">ouncil will</span><span style="color:black"> consider whether to form a small team to help in addressing the previous actions.</span> </font></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><ul><li><b><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Timing of ICANN bylaw mandated reviews:</font></span></b></li></ul></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The issue of reviews in term of resources, budget and timeline was raised several times, in particular by ICANN CEO and community. <span style="color:black"> As the CEO indicated there will be paper from ICANN to make some proposals on that matter to the community to seek input. The council decided to wait for the paper and decide next actions.</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><ul><li><b><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Board Process for GAC Advice</font></span></b></li></ul><p></p>
</div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span style="color:black">A concern was raised regarding the description of board process for GAC advice in the process documentation project (</span></span><font color="#000000"><a href="https://www.icann.org/processdocumentation" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/process<wbr>documentation</a></font><span style="color:black">) as it is not capturing accurately the input from GNSO. Council decided that comments can be sent to staff to be shared to those managing the relevant documentation and so giving input on those documentation as they may be used by community members without refering to the original accurate documents.</span></font></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4571283441319211482m_-554811335729179226gmail-m_-5530593561027653958m_-6008629990595525957WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I hope that gives some insight about the discussion in council. I also advice going through the recordings and transcripts for more details</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best Regards,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rafik Dammak</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">NCSG Policy Committee Chair</font></p>
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