<div dir="ltr">Thanks, Nathalie, for circulating these action items from our December meeting.<div><br></div><div>Welcome back, everyone! I hope that you had a safe, happy and relaxing end of year and are back recharged and energised. We here in Australia are still enjoying summer holidays, so it's not back to full tempo just yet. Nevertheless, we're in full swing within Council leadership picking up on these action items and making final preparations for our pilot strategic planning session at the end of this month.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm pleased to confirm that our action item re joint call of SubPro and RPM leadership is scheduled for 16th January, so we'll be able to report on that in the January Council meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Council leadership is working closely with Jonathan Robinson, our facilitator for January's strategic session, on finalising the agenda. We are aiming to circulate the final version late next week or early the following.</div><div><br></div><div>It will be great to start the year with a face-to-face meeting and a chance to get to know each other better. We have lots on the agenda - both for January and for the year ahead! </div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes to all for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2018,</div><div><br></div><div>Heather </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:03 AM, Nathalie Peregrine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathalie.peregrine@icann.org" target="_blank">nathalie.peregrine@icann.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">







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 2017. P</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#404040">lease take note of the action items coming out of the Council sessions and the proposed timing for delivering on these actions.  </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:7.5pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Item 4: COUNCIL VOTE – Adoption of the charter for the GNSO Standing Committee on Budget and Operations on in interim basis<u></u><u></u></span></u></b></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">GNSO Secretariat</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> to launch a call for volunteers per the membership criteria outlined in
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">SCBO
</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">to carry out the review and comment formulation for the ICANN FY19 Draft Budget planning cycle and submit its proposed recommendations to the GNSO Council, allowing sufficient
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">SCBO</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">, subsequent to completing the above action item, to report back to the GNSO Council
 with its assessment of whether the charter provides sufficient guidance and flexibility to carry out its work, and/or whether any modifications should be considered.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:7.5pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION – Update on the charter drafting exercise related to the next steps for the ICANN Procedure of Handling
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Drafting team members
</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">to share draft charter and identified questions in charter with respective SG/Cs for feedback, following which the drafting team will review this input and finalize the
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</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">to provide the GNSO Council with an updated timeline for its Phase 1 work, taking into account time needed to complete and consider the outputs of its data request.</span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:7.5pt;margin-left:0in">
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</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">to meet in January for a coordination call, and in particular, to discuss their respective timelines.</span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></u></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The GNSO Council agreed that the Standing Selection Committee should be directed to review the 3 remaining GNSO SSR2 candidates against the skills matrix developed by SSR2 RT members following
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</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">to complete the action noted directly above<b><u><u></u><u></u></u></b></span></li></ul>
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