[NCSG-PC] Fwd: [council] Proposed Agenda | GNSO Council Meeting | Thursday, 20 July 2023 at 21:00 UTC

Tomslin Samme-Nlar mesumbeslin at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 01:46:21 EEST 2023


FYI. We will walk through this during our PC meeting on Monday.

Warmly,
Tomslin


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From: Terri Agnew via council <council at gnso.icann.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 at 03:09
Subject: [council] Proposed Agenda | GNSO Council Meeting | Thursday, 20
July 2023 at 21:00 UTC
To: council at gnso.icann.org <council at gnso.icann.org>,
liaison6c at gnso.icann.org <liaison6c 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
taking place on Thursday, 20 July 2023 at 21:00 UTC for 2 hours. This has
been posted on the agenda wiki page <https://community.icann.org/x/zoBXDg>.



Thank you.



Kind regards,



Terri

*************

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/xYBXDg.



This agenda was established according to the GNSO Operating Procedures
<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/op-procedures-24oct19-en.pdf>
v3.5, updated on 24 October 2019.

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 on Thursday, 20 July 2023 at 21:00 UTC:
https://tinyurl.com/5n99j4vt.



14:00 Los Angeles; 17:00 Washington DC; 22:00 London; 23:00 Paris; (Friday)
00:00 Moscow; (Friday) 07:00 Melbourne



*GNSO Council Meeting Remote Participation:*
*https://icann.zoom.us/j/97891627902?pwd=RURCTitiNEVwd2UySEk1QkRESmlFZz09*
<https://icann.zoom.us/j/97891627902?pwd=RURCTitiNEVwd2UySEk1QkRESmlFZz09>

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

___________________________________

*Item 1: Administrative Matters (5 minutes)*

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/2023/minutes/minutes-gnso-council-05jun23-en.pdf>
of the GNSO Extraordinary Council meeting on 05 June were posted on 19 June
2023.

Minutes
<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2023/minutes/minutes-gnso-council-14jun23-en.pdf>
of the GNSO Council meeting on 14 June were posted on 01 July 2023.



*Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List (5 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 (5 minutes)*



   - Registration Data Accuracy Scoping Team Recommendations #1 and #2 –
   extending deferral of consideration by six months
   - GNSO Review of GAC Communiqué
   - GNSO Non-Registry Liaison to the Customer Standing Committee (CSC) -
   Milton Mueller; [GNSO Non-Registry Liaison Alternate to the CSC -
   [candidate under review]]

*Item 4: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Accuracy (20 minutes)*



During the Council’s extraordinary meeting on 5 June 2023, Thomas Rickert
introduced an area for potential discussion at a future GNSO Council
meeting. Specifically, the European Union's Second Network and Information
Systems Directive (“NIS2”) entered into force on 16 January 2023. Article
28, subsection 3 provides, "Member States shall require TLD name registries
and the entities providing domain name registration services, those are
registrars, resellers and privacy and proxy services, to have policies and
procedures, including verification procedures in place to ensure that the
databases referred to in paragraph 1 include accurate and complete
information. Member States shall require such policies and procedures to be
publicly available." Additionally, the corresponding recital number 111,
provides, in part, “Those policies and procedures should take into account
to the extent possible the standards developed by the multi-stakeholder
governance structures at the international level."

There was a suggestion to consider informal options of responding to the
recital text to highlight the standards that are currently applicable.

Here, the Council will discuss if further work is needed on this topic, and
if the GNSO is the appropriate venue for further work at this time.]

4.1 – Introduction of topic (Greg DiBiase, Council Vice Chair)

4.2 – Council discussion

4.3 – Next steps



*Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Operational Design Phase and Operational
Design Assessment Liaison & Small Team Survey Feedback (15 minutes)*



The Operational Design Phase (“ODP”) Process Paper
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/odp-concept-paper-05mar21-en.pdf>
provides, “As envisaged, the ODP will become part of the generic top-level
domain (gTLD) policy implementation lifecycle and eventually be
incorporated into the Consensus Policy Implementation Framework (CPIF).
Before modifying the CPIF, ICANN org will conduct a community consultation
on the functionality of the ODP after a minimum of two ODPs have concluded,
to ensure that the ODP operates effectively and fulfills the needs of the
Board, the community, and ICANN Org.” (p. 2 of ODP Process Paper
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/odp-concept-paper-05mar21-en.pdf>
)



In order to inform the eventual feedback from the GNSO Council, GNSO Policy
Support Staff issued surveys to the two GNSO Liaisons to the ODP (Janis
Karklins and Jeff Neuman) and the members of both ODA review teams.



Here, the Council will receive an overview of the feedback provided in
these surveys and consider potential next steps such as sharing this
feedback to ICANN org to help inform the upcoming community consultation.



5.1 - Introduction of topic (Sebastien Ducos, Council Chair)



5.2 - Council Discussion



5.3 - Next Steps



*Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - SubPro Small Team Update on Pending
Recommendations - Clarifying Statement  (25 minutes)*



During its informal session at ICANN76 and the subsequent Council meeting,
the Council discussed and agreed
<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2023/minutes/minutes-gnso-council-15mar23-en.pdf>
to
task a small team of interested councilors to review the recommendations
that the Board placed in a pending status and suggest to the full Council
how the underlying concerns that caused the pending status can be best
addressed (i.e., a limited triage exercise).

Since ICANN76, the Council SubPro Small Team has met several times and has
completed a comprehensive review of the issues chart, with Board member
input on why the Board placed specific recommendations into a pending
status. The Council discussed the main output of that triage effort, the
proposed paths forward for each pending recommendation, during an
Extraordinary Meeting on 4 May. During that meeting, the Council agreed to
further task the small team with taking interim steps (e.g., provision of
clarifying information, developing speaking points) in order to support the
Council’s dialogue with the ICANN Board on 22 May
<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=240617931>. The
Council debriefed after the dialogue with the ICANN Board and discussed
next steps.

During the ICANN77 Day 0 Session, the Council heard from the members of the
Board regarding the Board’s views on potential “landing spots” on the
pending recommendations. Following this discussion, the Small Team has
drafted clarifying statements for items in landing spot one (“Provision of
Clarifying Statement to the Board”).

Here, the Council will receive an update from the Small Team on the
proposed clarifying statement to the Board as well as the work that is
ongoing in relation to the recommendations for which the Board has
indicated likely non-adoption.

6.1 – Introduction of Topic (Paul McGrady, Chair of SubPro Small Team)

6.2 – Council discussion

6.3 - Next Steps



*Item 7: Follow up on IGO Curative Rights IRT and Other Work Necessary to
Achieve Release of the IGO Acronyms  Under Interim Reservation (10 minutes)*



On 14 April 2013, the Board passed a resolution
<https://www.icann.org/en/board-activities-and-meetings/materials/approved-resolutions-meeting-of-the-new-gtld-program-committee-02-07-2013-en#1.b>
placing certain IGO acronyms under temporary reservation. In recent
correspondence
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/sinha-to-roberts-30jun23-en.pdf>,
the Board confirmed that its intention in passing this resolution was to
“withhold these IGO acronyms from registration at the second level on an
interim basis, pending resolution by the community of the inconsistencies
between GAC advice and GNSO policy recommendations from the GNSO’s
2012-2013 Policy Development Process (PDP) on IGO-INGO Protections in All
gTLDs.”

Since the April 2013 Board resolution, the he GNSO has completed two policy
development processes specific to curative rights protections for IGOs: the
PDP on IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms that was
completed in 2019 and the Expedited PDP (EPDP) on Specific Curative Rights
Protections for IGOs that was completed in 2022. On 30 April 2023, the
Board voted to adopt
<https://www.icann.org/en/board-activities-and-meetings/materials/approved-resolutions-regular-meeting-of-the-icann-board-30-04-2023-en#section2.c>
all four recommendations that the GNSO Council approved from the 2019 PDP
and all five Full Consensus recommendations from the 2022 EPDP. The Board
also directed the ICANN Interim President and CEO to proceed with
implementation “as soon as feasible; and to develop and submit to the Board
an implementation plan … to inform the Board as to how the implementation
of these recommendations fit into ICANN org’s operational planning and
prioritization of its ongoing work to implement other community-developed
recommendations that the Board has adopted.”

Here, the Council will discuss whether it wishes to take any steps to
request that ICANN org implementation of these Consensus Policy
recommendations remains a high priority, understanding the need to resource
this work appropriately in the context of other ongoing implementation
work.



7.1 - Introduction of Topic (Sebastien Ducos, GNSO Council Chair)



7.2 - Council Discussion



7.3 - Next Steps



*Item 8: IDNs EPDP Timeline (20 minutes)*

On 20 May 2021, the GNSO Council approved the initiation request
<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2021/presentation/EPDPInitiationRequest20May21.pdf>
for
the EPDP on Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and adopted its charter
<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2021/presentation/CharterGNSOIDNsEPDPWorkingGroup20May21.pdf>*.
*The EPDP Team is expected to:

   - Determine the approach for a consistent definition of all gTLDs; and
   - Develop policy recommendations that will eventually allow for the
   introduction of variant gTLDs at the top-level

On 24 April 2023, the EPDP Team published its Phase 1 Initial Report for Public
Comment
<https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/phase-1-initial-report-on-the-internationalized-domain-names-epdp-24-04-2023>*.
*The Initial Report includes 68 preliminary recommendations covering issues
pertaining to gTLD variant definition and management at the top-level. The
majority of the preliminary recommendations aim to operationalize SubPro
PDP Outputs in order to allow for future applications of gTLD variant
labels through the New gTLD Program. While the public comment process was
ongoing, the EPDP Team started its Phase 2 charter question deliberations.

In accordance with ICANN Board request, the EPDP Team delivered an updated
project plan by the last day of ICANN77.  It identifies that almost all of
its charter questions will impact the next Applicant Guidebook, and
determines that its timeline for the EPDP Team’s delivery of relevant
recommendations to the GNSO Council remains unchanged, which is November
2025.

Nevertheless, the EPDP Team made a commitment to reconsider its delivery
date shortly after ICANN77 by taking into consideration various factors
including:

   - The closure of the Phase 1 Initial Report Public Comment period and
   gaining a better understanding of the breadth and quantity of comments
   received;
   - A better sense of progress made on Phase 2 charter questions in
   advance of the schedule; and
   - More certainty of approval for the EPDP Team’s request for its
   dedicated face-to-face workshop.

Here, the GNSO Council will hear an update on the EPDP Team’s revised
schedule, which should reflect a shortened timeline for project
completion.



8.1 Introduction of Topic (Donna Austin, IDNs EPDP Chair)



8.2 Council Discussion



8.3 Next Steps



*Item 9: ANY OTHER BUSINESS (15 minutes)*



9.1 ccNSO Liaison update (Desiree, ccNSO liaison to the GNSO Council)



9.2 Closed Generics Update (John McElwaine, Council Vice Chair)







 _______________________________

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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