GNSO: summary of the previous meeting for tomorrow's NCSG policy call

[Tatiana Tropina]

Dear NCSG members,

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.

The previous GNSO meeting took place on December, 21st. If you are
interested in details of the discussion, you can check the minutes of the
meeting <https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/minutes-council-21dec17-en.pdf>.
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.

In summary, at the previous meeting, the GNSO at the meeting on 21st of
December, 2017:

1) Adopted the GNSO Standing Committee on Budget & Operations (SCBO) Charter
<https://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/draft-icann-budget-operations-charter-11dec17-en.pdf>
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.

2) Discussed the updates on the charter drafting exercise related to the
next
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 motion
<https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+30+January+2018>
for
the Council vote. I believe we are going to discuss this on the NCSG policy
call tomorrow.

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.

4) Discussed the updates on progress for the “Review of all Rights
Protection
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 presentation
<https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/presentation-rpm-rfp-timeline-19dec17-en.pdf>
for the update.

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.
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.
The next GNSO meeting has under the Agenda
<https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Final+Proposed+Agenda+30+January+2018>
item 9 the review of Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2-RT)
Letter from GNSO Council to SO/AC leadership.

If you are interested in any item of the summary in more detail, you can
listen to the MP3 <http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-council-21dec17-en.mp3>
or Adobe connect recording <https://participate.icann.org/p3i6wszs6m8/> of
the previous GNSO meeting on 21st of December, or read the transcript
<https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/transcript-council-21dec17-en.pdf>
here. Furthermore, if you have any questions - I or other GNSO councillors
from NCSG are very happy to answer them.

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 link <http://stream.icann.org:8000/stream01.m3u>.

Warm regards,
Tatiana Tropina
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