[council] Final Proposed Agenda GNSO Council Meeting - 21 May 2020 at 21:00 UTC

Wed May 13 18:37:42 EEST 2020

hi all,

please find below the agenda for next week GNSO Council meeting. We will
have our monthly NCSG Policy meeting next Tuesday.

Best regards,

Rafik

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De : Nathalie Peregrine <nathalie.peregrine at icann.org>
Date: jeu. 14 mai 2020 à 01:08
Subject: [council] Final Proposed Agenda GNSO Council Meeting - 21 May 2020
at 21:00 UTC
To: council at gnso.icann.org <council at gnso.icann.org>
Cc: gnso-secs at icann.org <gnso-secs at icann.org>

Dear all,

Please find below the final proposed agenda for the GNSO Council Meeting on 21
May 2020 at 21:00 UTC.
Draft GNSO Council Agenda 21 May 2020

Please note that all documents referenced in the agenda have been gathered
on a Wiki page for convenience and easier access:
https://community.icann.org/x/piWJBw

This agenda was established according to the GNSO Operating Procedures
<https://gnso.icann.org/en/council/op-procedures-30jan18-en.pdf> v3.3,
updated on 30 January 2018

For convenience:

   - An excerpt of the ICANN Bylaws defining the voting thresholds is
   provided in Appendix 1 at the end of this agenda.
   - An excerpt from the Council Operating Procedures defining the absentee
   voting procedures is provided in Appendix 2 at the end of this agenda.

GNSO Council meeting held at 21:00 UTC

Coordinated Universal Time: 21:00 UTC: https://tinyurl.com/ydfhcxlz

14:00 Los Angeles; 17:00 Washington DC; 22:00 London; (Friday) 02:00
Islamabad; (Friday) 06:00 Tokyo; (Friday) 07:00 Melbourne

*GNSO Council Meeting Webinar Room*

https://icann.zoom.us/j/96826336141
Password: awv^05b9!c

Councilors should notify the GNSO Secretariat in advance if they will not
be able to attend and/or need a dial out call.

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*Item 1: Administrative Matters (10 mins)*

1.1 - Roll Call

1.2 - Updates to Statements of Interest

1.3 - Review / Amend Agenda

1.4 - Note the status of minutes for the previous Council meetings per the
GNSO Operating Procedures:

Minutes
<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2019/minutes/minutes-council-11mar20-en.pdf>
of the GNSO Council meeting on 11 March 2020 were posted on 27 March 2020

Minutes
<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2020/minutes/minutes-gnso-council-16apr20-en.pdf>
of the GNSO Council meeting on 16 April 2020 were posted on 01 May 2020.

*Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List (10 minutes)*

2.1 - Review focus areas and provide updates on specific key themes /
topics, to include review of Projects List
<https://gnso.icann.org/en/council/project>and Action Item List.
<https://community.icann.org/x/RgZlAg>

*Item 3: Consent Agenda (10 minutes) *

   - Approval of the PTI SLA for the ccTLD Creation and Transfer Process
   <https://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/service-levels-cctld-creation-transfer-process-change-analysis-09jan20-en.pdf>
   - Reappointment of Matthew Shears to seat 14 on the ICANN Board. The
   NCPH has reappointed Matthew Shears for Seat 14 on the ICANN Board of
   Directors. This agenda item is intended to acknowledge the selection and
   confirm that the notification process as outlined in Section 7.25 of the
   ICANN Bylaws has been completed.

*Item 4: COUNCIL DISCUSSION – GNSO Work Prioritization - 2020 Work Plan (30
minutes)*

After the GNSO Council’s Strategic Planning Session in January 2020, the
Council acknowledged that there are limited resources available for policy
development activities and related work. This resource limitation means
that the GNSO Council must efficiently complete its current work, but also
prioritize the new work waiting in its pipeline. At the Strategic Planning
Session, Councilors participated in an informal and non-binding ranking
survey, which was used as a “sense of the room.” This informational survey
result was shared with Councilors to then share with their respective
Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies, to gain a better sense of the
various groups’ top priorities. The Council touched on this topic briefly
during the February Council meeting and again during its March meeting.

Council leadership and staff developed a draft work plan
<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/draft-framework-council-work-plan-14apr20-en.pdf>
for the Council’s consideration. Previously, the focus was on
prioritization of the GNSO’s work, which implies that the work should be
ranked in order of priority. However, Council leadership determined that it
might be more practical to think of this exercise more simply as
establishing a work plan, which does still consider the urgency of the
work, but also looks at each element of work in a more granular fashion and
identifies potential dependencies. What this allows the Council to do is to
potentially carve out pieces of work from a project that might be initiated
in the near-term, some of which may then serve as the
preparatory/informational basis for Council next steps.

The Council discussed this approach at its April 2020 meeting and
afterwards, solicited feedback from Councilors and their respective SG/Cs.
Considering that input, Council leadership has tried to provide more
certainty around when each of the efforts and if applicable, discrete
parts, can practically begin. Council leadership shared that proposal
[INSERT LINK WHEN AVAILABLE]with the Council. This proposal also seeks to
take into consideration ongoing work and when it might reasonably complete,
but also the effects to the community’s capacity from the coronavirus
pandemic.

Here, the Council will discuss the latest proposed work plan and consider
what additional steps may be needed to come to agreement, if any, and to
then subsequently put the plan into action.

4.1 – Introduction of topic (Council leadership)

4.2 – Council discussion

4.3 – Next steps

*Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Draft Response to the Board Letter on
Implementation Concerns for EPDP Phase 1 Recommendation 7, related to Thick
WHOIS Transition Policy (20 minutes)*

In adopting the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on the
Temporary Specification Final Report and Recommendations, the Council
requested that an informal Implementation Review Team (IRT) be established,
which was done. After the recommendations were approved by the ICANN Board,
the informal IRT transitioned to a formal IRT and has diligently been
working to implement the policy recommendations. Within the IRT, there are
diverging views amongst some IRT members on how to implement recommendation
7, especially in relation to the Thick WHOIS Transition Policy for .COM,
.NET, and .JOBS

The ICANN Board, taking note of the potential impasse, sent a letter
<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/botterman-to-drazek-2-11mar20-en.pdf>
to the GNSO Council on 11 March 2020. The Council has considered the letter
and agrees that recommendation 7 did not explicitly overturn the Thick
Whois Transition Policy; to do so will require the GNSO Council to initiate
policy development. A small team of Councilors has prepared a draft
response (INSERT LINK WHEN AVAILABLE] for the Council’s consideration.

Here, the Council will discuss and agree on next steps, and ensure that the
draft response is consistent with that approach.

5.1 - Introduction of topic (Rafik Dammak)

5.2 – Council discussion

5.3 – Next steps

*Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Expedited PDP (EPDP) on the Temporary
Specification Phase 2 Update (25 minutes)*

Phase 2 of the Expedited PDP (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification was
initiated in March 2019, and is focused on developing policy on a System
for Standardized Access/Disclosure (SSAD) to non-public gTLD registration
data, as well as other topics identified in Phase 2 of the Charter. The
EPDP Team published its Phase 2 Initial Report
<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/epdp-phase-2-initial-2020-02-07-en>
for public comment on 7 February 2020, focused on the SSAD. Subsequently,
the EPDP Team also published its Addendum
<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/epdp-phase-2-addendum-2020-03-26-en>
for public comment on 26 March 2020, which was focused on priority 2 items.
The Council will receive an update on the EPDP Team’s progress (see the
team’s project package from 30 April
<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/epdp-phase-2-project-package-summary-timeline-30apr20-en.pdf>)
from the GNSO Council’s liaison to the group, Rafik Dammak.

Additionally, the Council will discuss the challenges the EPDP Team is
experiencing in reaching agreement on certain topics (e.g., accuracy, legal
versus natural, etc.). The EPDP Team notes these challenges in the context
of elements that may affect delivery of the Final Report in June 2020
(e.g., reviewing the voluminous and complex public comments received),
which may then have an impact on both the availability of the EPDP Chair
and funding for the project.

Here, the Council will consider these issues and consider how it might aid
in the timely delivery of the Final Report and to the extent there are
unresolved issues, how they should be handled.

6.1 – Introduction of topic (Council leadership)

6.2 – Council discussion

6.3 – Next steps

*Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Anticipated
Outcome on DNS Abuse (20 minutes)*

The topic of DNS Abuse was not explicitly identified in the charter of the
New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP (SubPro). However, it was a topic of
interest identified by the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice
Review Team (CCT-RT), which made recommendations regarding the subject. In
considering the CCT-RT Final Report, the ICANN Board took varying actions
on 35 total recommendations, accepting some, passing through others, and
placing some in a pending status (see scorecard
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/resolutions-final-cct-recs-scorecard-01mar19-en.pdf>).
SubPro considered the recommendations related to DNS Abuse (i.e., 14, 15,
and 16) though they remain in a “Pending” status” (with the exception of
recommendation 16, which was partially passed through) and have not been
approved by the ICANN Board.

On 27 April 2020, the SubPro Co-Chairs sent a letter
<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/neuman-langdon-orr-to-drazek-27apr20-en.pdf>
to the GNSO Council to share the current thinking of the Working Group on
the topic of DNS abuse. In brief, the Co-Chairs shared that the WG is
trending towards recommending that a holistic solution will be needed in
all gTLDs, not just new gTLDs, and is therefore not expected to make
substantive recommendations on the topic of DNS Abuse. The purpose of
communicating this expected outcome in advance is because the WG is keenly
aware how important this topic is across the community.

Here, the Council will discuss the letter and consider if any actions are
needed.

7.1 – Introduction of topic (Council leadership)

7.2 – Council discussion

7.3 – Next steps

*Item 8: ANY OTHER BUSINESS (5 minutes)*

   - 8.1 - ICANN68 virtual meeting planning

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Appendix 1: GNSO Council Voting Thresholds (ICANN Bylaws, Article 11,
Section 11.3(i))

See https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article11.

Appendix 2: GNSO Council Absentee Voting Procedures (GNSO Operating
Procedures, Section 4.4)

See
https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/op-procedures-30jan18-en.pdf

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