[Ncsg-discuss] GNSO Council meeting January 15, 2026

[Tomslin Samme-Nlar]

Thanks for the summary, Julf.
Very helpful and much appreciated.

Remain blessed,
Tomslin

On Fri, 16 Jan 2026, 01:46 Johan Helsingius, <
00001963cc94b85a-dmarc-request at listserv.syr.edu> wrote:

> Dear NCSG members, as one of your Council representatives, it is my
> turn to report on the latest council meeting this morning, 5:00-7:00 am
> UTC. I know it was the evening of January 14 for those of us in the
> Americas, but I will use UTC.
>
> I hope my fellow Councillors will jump in and correct me if
> I got anything wrong - it was 6 am for me after all.
>
> There were two voting points on the agenda. The first one,
> on the First Policy Development Process (PDP) for DNS Abuse
> Mitigation Charter, caused a fair bit of discussion that ran
> over the allocated time. Most of the discussion was related
> to wording related to the requirement for a  Human Rights
> Impact Assessment. In the end, a workable compromise that
> we could live with was reached and we all voted to approve.
>
> The second one, on the Council Guidance for the Implementation
> Review Team (IRT) on Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
> and International Nongovernmental Organizations (INGOs) on
> Curative Rights was something we weren't completely happy
> with, but in the end we decided it was not a hill worth
> dying on, and we all voted for approval, but with Farzaneh
> conveying our concerns, and she had also already conveyed
> those concerns on the council mailing list prior to the
> meeting.
>
> We were very pleased to have our own Manju Chen join us,
> despite not being a councillor any more, to lead the
> discussion on the Standing Committee on Continuous Improvement
> (SCCI) Policy Status Report (PSR) Final Report. Manju did
> very deservedly get a lot of praise for having managed
> a very complicated process extremely well.
>
> The remainder of the meeting was taken by a discussion on
> Upcoming Board-Council Dialogue on SSAD Recommendations (that
> again showed the GNSO Council preference for "Small team plus",
> a construct that, while allowing non-GNSO parties to
> participate, also doesn't really implement the traditional
> balancing of powers that we are used to), as well as
> an update of Cross-Community Group on Review of Reviews
> by Sophie Hay, one of the two GNSO representatives to the CCG,
>
> The next thing coming up for the Council is the Strategic
> Planning Session in Barcelona next week.
>
>         Julf
>
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