<div dir="ltr">Dear Council colleagues,<div><br></div><div>In reviewing the Action Items at the start of our May Council meeting the outstanding action item on the "Drafting Team on charter related to the next steps for the ICANN Procedure of Handling Whois conflicts with Privacy" was noted:</div><div><br></div><div>

<ul class="gmail-inline-task-list" style="margin:0px;list-style-type:disc;padding-left:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="background-image:url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAQAAAC1+jfqAAAAj0lEQVR4AY2RBQ7EIBBFVy/P1TptbOUSdfePZFI3Xhh9MbhdOPS2BHmEBZ6avo1giX9WoEen7kiJf2YJIzh+gW6gNVeTw/GNQGh3ILBQKxpzGe5GYYdBqHYYhHKHQSgUpb4cC2YQ8h1mQqbvAhZsP0CKTF+OqYkByOOn/mY+kgUBvuqph8+yfcIc2x8+6/hIzptvjIrKkGEAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");list-style:none;padding-left:22px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:16px 16px;background-position:0px 3px"><em>ICANN Staff</em><span> </span>to circulate a call for volunteers on or after 1 June 2018 to the GNSO Stakeholder Groups, with the request for each Stakeholder Group to appoint up to 3 members to the Implementation Advisory Group (IAG). The call for volunteers should also be more widely circulated to seek volunteers to serve as participants and observers to the IAG.</li></ul>

<br></div><div>We said we'd come back to this one on the list in light of the ongoing temporary specification next steps discussions. </div><div><br></div><div>Would it be preferable to delay this call for volunteers until after we have progressed the next steps discussions further? Your thoughts much appreciated!</div><div><br></div><div>Heather</div></div>