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

[Justine Chew]

All,


*My 17 Feb message to the Alt-Plus skype channel refers. Since the next
ALAC monthly meeting isn't for another week+, I thought I should provide a
summary report of the GNSO Council's Feb meeting for the purpose of
coordinating our reaction as needed (for eg. the upcoming ALAC-GNSO
Bilateral Prep call).*
For brevity, I will just highlight a few things here. You can glean a wider
perspective from GNSO Council Feb 2022 Matters of Interest
<https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct+2021#Feb2022-MOI_Feb2022>
and
the meeting records from GNSO Council Feb 2022 Meeting Records
<https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/GNSO+Liaison+Report%2C+post-Oct+2021#Feb2022-Meet_Feb2022>

*ALAC-GNSO Counciil Bilateral at ICANN73*

   - The final list and text that were submitted for consideration by
   Council are found here
   <https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=186778158#ALAC/GNSOCouncilBilateralMeetingProposedTopicsforDiscussion-SubmittedtoCouncilon11February2022>,
   namely:
      - (1) SSAD ODA;
      - (2) SubPro ODP;
      - (3) DNS Abuse Mitigation; and
      - (4) GNSO Priorities - Work Stream 2, impact of GDS Paper on
      Modifying gTLD Consensus Policies
   - While Council Members did not specifically react to our submission,
   Council Chair noted that there is significant overlap between the issues
   raised by the ALAC and the GAC - i.e. SSAD ODA, DNS Abuse next steps, and
   SubPro ODP, and invited councilors to provide comments post meeting for the
   separate Prep calls with the ALAC, GAC (and the Board), respectively.

*(1) SSAD ODA *

   - GNSO Council small team has had 2 calls, with limited progress to
   report (Council small team lead is Sebastien Ducos)
   - So far have focused on the remit of the small team - answering Board's
   letter to Council vs. in-depth analysis of the SSAD ODA vs. possible
   outcomes
   - Small team resolved to come up with a list of clarifying questions for
   ICANN org by next week

*(2) SubPro ODP*

   - Latest update by GNSO Liaison Jeff Neuman is available: 14 Feb update
   <https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2022/correspondence/subpro-odp-liaison-update-question-set-11feb22.pdf>.
   (SubPro ODP Timeline
   <https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2022/correspondence/subpro-odp-high-level-timeline-14feb22-en.pdf>
   )
   - *To note especially* is ICANN SubPro ODP Team's questions regarding
   SubPro recommendations on a dedicated IRT for Applicant Support
      - *Context*: Apart from the more general IRT for SubPro following
      (any) Board approval of the SubPro Outputs (which in turn is now only
      expected after the SubPro ODP is concluded), SubPro PDP WG had
recommended
      for a dedicated IRT for Applicant Support with requisite skill sets
      relating to program grant-type work
      - While ICANN SubPro ODP Team doesn't have an issue with such a
      dedicated IRT, it appears that such a dedicated IRT is being tasked with
      non-regular implementation work which likely involves or encroaches into
      policy-making, so, in effect empowering this dedicated IRT with
      policy-development functions normally held exclusively by GNSO
      - Jeff suggests that if Council believes there is policy development
      is involved then it may be useful for Council to initiate work
by community
      in this area specifically without waiting for Board's decision on the
      SubPro Output as a whole and overcoming the delay of starting work which
      needs to happen anyway
      - *It is for Council to determine whether it makes sense to convene a
      special community group to include GAC and ALAC (but not a PDP) to do the
      required work*
   - There will be a SubPro ODP Team update during ICANN73 to present
   updated assumptions based on work done so far

*(3) DNS Abuse Next Steps*

   - GNSO Council small team had initial call last week (Council small team
   co-leads are Mark Datysgeld and Paul McGrady)
   - Small team resolved to recommend outreach by Council to groups most
   interested in topic i.e. ALAC, GAC, SSAC, DNS Abuse Institute to ask for
   help in defining what they think are the problems that need to be solved,
   in particular to identify issues which could be solved by policy
   development, and to bring those back to Council

*So, ALAC can expect to receive a request/letter from Council on this in
due course and we might want to set up our own ALAC/CPWG small team to
develop a response*

*(4) GNSO Priorities*

   - Just to note that councilors have been asked to consider a staff-generated
   approach for GNSO Council Implementation of Workstream 2 (WS2)
   <https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2022/presentation/update-gnso-council-implementation-ws2-17feb22-en.pdf>


Thanks for reading / your consideration.

Justine Chew
ALAC Liaison to the GNSO Council
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