[ALT-Plus] Summary Report of GNSO Council 14 April 2022 meeting

Justine Chew justine.chew.icann at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 03:57:53 UTC 2022


Apologies, I meant the ALAC monthly meeting of 20 *April*, of course.

Kind regards,
Justine



On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 at 11:46, Justine Chew <justine.chew.icann at gmail.com>
wrote:

> All,
>
> I am submitting a written report ahead of the ALAC monthly meeting on 20
> April, so that my 2 minutes at the ALAC call can be repurposed for taking
> questions instead (if any).
>
> For brevity, I will just highlight a few things here. For some of the
> issues, you can glean a wider perspective from GNSO Council Apr 2022
> Matters of Interest
> <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct+2021#Apr2022-MOI_Apr2022>
> and the meeting records from GNSO Council Apr 2022 Meeting Records
> <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct+2021#Apr2022-Meet_Apr2022>
> .
>
> *1. SSAD ODA*
>
>    - Council SSAD ODA small team lead Sebastien Ducos spoke to the small
>    team's preliminary report
>    <https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2022/correspondence/ducos-to-gnso-council-et-al-04apr22-en.pdf> and
>    essentially asked Council for support to provide ICANN Board with an update
>    (in response to concerns as to the SSAD's financial sustainability) and to
>    pursue further work on the recommended "proof of concept" referred to in
>    the said report.
>
> *NB. **Alan Greenberg has presented on the preliminary report to *CPWG on
> 6 Apr <https://community.icann.org/x/ng11Cw>.
>
>
> *2. EPDP on Specific Curative Rights Protection for IGOs Final Report*
>
>    - Council received a presentation
>    <https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2022/presentation/epdp-scrp-igo-14apr22-en.pdf> of
>    the 5 recommendations from this EPDP's Chair, Chris Disspain, which he
>    noted as having had full consensus within the EPDP (ALAC included). As per
>    normal practice, Council will only vote on a motion to the recommendations
>    at Council's May 2022 meeting (i.e. the meeting following which a motion on
>    a final report is submitted).
>
> *NB. Yrjo Lansipuro and I had presented on the substance of the Final
> Report to CPWG on 23 Mar <https://community.icann.org/x/ugN1Cw>, and Yrjo
> has provided updates re its consensus designation thereafter.*
>
>
> *3. DNS Abuse*
>
>    - Council DNS Abuse small team co-lead Mark Datysgeld spoke to the
>    team's draft work plan comprising several phases, starting with outreach to
>    the community, to understand the current landscape of DNS abuse,
>    considering which elements of DNS abuse appear inadequately mitigated AND
>    are in scope for GNSO policy making (if any), and ultimately to make
>    recommendations on next steps to the Council.
>    - Small team has received initial inputs from ALAC, GAC, SSAC and
>    DNSAI; followed by BC, and is currently awaiting submissions from other
>    SG/Cs.
>
> *NB. In other words, there is nowhere near any concrete output yet.*
>
>
> *4. Closed Generics*
>
>    - To be clear, the GNSO Council Small Team on Closed Generics wasn't
>    charged with substantive content-specific tasks, but instead it had only
>    been charged with recommending whether GNSO should accept the Board's
>    invitation to dialogue with the GAC. Also, there were remarks on the
>    unrepresentative nature of the small team even though it was open to any
>    councilor to volunteer for.
>    - The small team has had one meeting so far, which was spent
>    attempting to resolve NCSG's objection to the Board-proposed GNSO-GAC
>    Dialogue mechanism based on several grounds, inter alia -
>       - unconventional and not provided for within GNSO processes or the
>       ICANN Bylaws,
>       - sets precedent for opening settled PDP for re-litigation,
>       - gives GAC undue influence over Closed Generics (or any matter
>       under the remit of GNSO per the Bylaws).
>    - Council discussed NCSG's objection and informally resolved to ask
>    the small team to continue its work, on the assumption that Council will
>    accept the Board's invitation to dialogue with GAC and specifically, in
>    particular on how Council should approach the dialogue.
>
> *NB. Do note that (a) GAC has accepted the Board's invitation to dialogue
> with GNSO and Manal's letter to Maarten of 10 Mar 2022
> <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/ismail-to-botterman-10mar22-en.pdf>
> clearly welcomed ALAC's participation in a consultation process on Closed
> Generics; (b) Philippe had also suggested that the small team may wish to
> consider the feasibility of ALAC's participation in the dialogue.*
>
>
> *5. ICANN74 planning*
>
>    - I raised the question whether there might be an ALAC-GNSO Council
>    bilateral at ICANN74; due to brevity in length of ICANN74 and associated
>    challenges of insufficient resources (suitable time, room and staff
>    support) it is now thought that a meeting between the Leaderships of ALAC
>    and GNSO Council would be a better approach to continue any intersessional
>    work between the 2 gro*ups.*
>
>
> Thanks for reading / your consideration.
>
> Justine Chew
> ALAC Liaison to the GNSO Council
>
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 23:02, Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for this notification, Justine.  Its great to see how the
>> policy issues that our EPDP and CPWG policy teams contribute to, will be
>> followed up by the GNSO. Their updates will also help our community to
>> understand GNSO processes. Very helpful.
>>
>> M
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, 4:05 am Justine Chew via ALT-Plus, <
>> alt-plus at icann.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The curated version is found here: GNSO Council 14 Apr 2022 Matters of
>>> Interest
>>> <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct+2021#Apr2022-MOI_Apr2022> ,
>>> while the full version is at: https://community.icann.org/x/9xQiCw
>>>
>>> Of interest to ALAC/At-Large would be:
>>>
>>>    - Item 4: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Small Team Reviewing the System for
>>>    Standardized Access/Disclosure (SSAD) Operational Design Assessment
>>>    Preliminary Draft Report
>>>    - Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Overview of the EPDP on Specific
>>>    Curative Rights Protection for IGOs Final Report
>>>    - Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - DNS Abuse Small Team Update
>>>    - Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Closed Generics Small Team Update
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Justine
>>>
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