[Report] Summary from the previous GNSO meeting 24th May

[Rafik Dammak]

Hi all,

I am sending here a sumamry I drafted of the previous GNSO meeting, held in
the 24th May. You can find below:


   - Recordings: https://participate.icann.org/p7010yxpn65/ and
   https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/transcript-council-24may18-en.pdf
   - Agenda https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/agenda-council-24may18-en.pdf


   - *Adoption of Revised Charter for the GNSO Standing Selection Committee*

The SSC conducted a review of its charter and proposed some changes there
for clarification and based on what it experienced during the previous
selections. As reminder, the SSC got tasked by GNSO council to conduct
several appointments like those for SSR2, ATRT3, GNSO liaison to GAC and so
on.
The motion was put for vote to approve the amended charter and confirm the
appointment of chair and vice-chair of SSC. The motion passed unanimously
while there was some discussion to clarify about nomcom representation
within SSC. The NCSG members in the SSC supported the amendments within the
committee.


   - *IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights **Protection Mechanisms *

This working group has been in activity for several years now and the
council got update from the GNSO liaison about the next steps as the
working group faced some issues in latest months including an appeal
regarding consensus call process followed by the co-cahirs. The liaison is
supporting the working group to work toward final report and assessing
concensus around the proposed options. As policy manager , the council is
pushing for the working group deliver final recommendations asap to end the
PDP and review the recommendations, as we also know that GAC has interest
on this topic.


   - *Review of the Customer Standing Committee **(CSC) Charter*

A small team of councillors reviewed the amended charter for the CSC and
gave updates to the council about the findings and a draft comment. It was
advised to council to support the amendments and suggested few edits for
clarity and for more consideration for diversity. The comment was submitted
on behalf of council later by the public comment deadline with
non-objection from GNSO council



   - *Short-Term and Long-Term **Options to Adjust the Timeline for
   Specific Reviews*

ICANN published 2 public comments regarding the adjustment of timeline for
specific reviews. Some councillors raised concern that RDS WHOIS2 review
was included by staff in the public comment without consulting the review
team itself. That was adjusted lately as the review team is already in
advanced stage of its work.
There were also concerns with regard to suspsion of SSR2 and the
ndependence of reviews to ICANN as those reviews are important
accountability mechanisms.


The council agreed to fill responses to the public comments with a team of
volunteers.




   -  *Next steps following adoption **of ICANN Board Temporary
   Specification*


The discussion was continuation fot the webinar held between council and
stakeholder group and constituency chairs in the same week to go through
the options included in document prepared by staff and GNSO council
leadership regarding the next steps to be followed by GNSO in response to
the temporary specification approved by ICANN board for whois compliance
with GDPR.

The discussion covered the need of an Expedited PDP and the process we
should follow including timeline and prep work that is needed, the
selection of leadersip, composition of the team and how to use the
learnings from PDP 3.0 discussion paper.


The call was held just after the adoption by board of the temporary
specification and so all parties were stil disgesting the changes there and
reviewing it as that has impact on the scope of the EPDP. The council had
later on the 5th June a call with Board to cover several questions raised
during council call and collected from SG/C afterwards.



The discussion will continue with am extraordinary council meeting to be
held in Tuesday 12th June only covering the next steps for temporary
specifcation. .




   - *AOB*


   1. there was an update of the latest draft for GNSO schedule for ICANN62
   2. there was also an update on the ICANN FY19 ICANN Operating and
   activities from the Standing Committee on ICANN Budget and Operations
   (SCBO), asking for input on the reponse from ICANN to the SCBO comment on
   behalf of council submittted on FY19 budget public consultation.


Best Regards,


Rafik Dammak


NCSG Policy Committee Chair
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