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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111">Dear all,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111">Please find below the final proposed agenda for the GNSO Council Meeting on
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">21 May<span style="color:#111111"> 2020 at
</span>21<span style="color:#111111">:00 UTC.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h1 style="mso-margin-top-alt:24.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Draft GNSO Council Agenda 21 May 2020</span><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Please note that all documents referenced in the agenda have been gathered on a Wiki page for convenience and easier access:
</span><a href="https://community.icann.org/x/piWJBw"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://community.icann.org/x/piWJBw</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">This agenda was established according to the
</span><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/council/op-procedures-30jan18-en.pdf"><span style="color:#1155CC">GNSO Operating Procedures</span></a><span style="color:black"> v3.3, updated on 30 January 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">For convenience:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">An excerpt of the ICANN Bylaws defining the voting thresholds is provided in Appendix 1 at the end of this agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">An excerpt from the Council Operating Procedures defining the absentee voting procedures is provided in Appendix 2 at the end of this agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">GNSO Council meeting held at 21:00 UTC</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Coordinated Universal Time: 21:00 UTC:
</span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/ydfhcxlz"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">https://tinyurl.com/ydfhcxlz</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">14:00 Los Angeles; 17:00 Washington DC; 22:00 London; (Friday) 02:00 Islamabad; (Friday) 06:00 Tokyo; (Friday) 07:00 Melbourne </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="color:#333333">GNSO Council Meeting Webinar Room</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://icann.zoom.us/j/96826336141"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://icann.zoom.us/j/96826336141</span><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none"><br>
</span></a>Password: awv^05b9!c</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">Councilors should notify the GNSO Secretariat in advance if they will not be able to attend and/or need a dial out call.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">___________________________________</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Item 1: Administrative Matters (10 mins)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">1.1 - Roll Call</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">1.2 - Updates to Statements of Interest</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">1.3 - Review / Amend Agenda</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">1.4 - Note the status of minutes for the previous Council meetings per the GNSO Operating Procedures: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2019/minutes/minutes-council-11mar20-en.pdf"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">Minutes</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white"> of
the GNSO Council meeting on 11 March 2020 were posted on 27 March 2020</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2020/minutes/minutes-gnso-council-16apr20-en.pdf"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">Minutes</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white">
of the GNSO Council meeting on 16 April 2020 were posted on 01 May 2020.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List (10 minutes)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">2.1 - Review focus areas and provide updates on specific key themes / topics, to include review of
</span><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/council/project"><span style="color:#1155CC">Projects List
</span></a><span style="color:black">and </span><a href="https://community.icann.org/x/RgZlAg"><span style="color:#1155CC">Action Item List</span><span style="color:black">. </span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Item 3: Consent Agenda (10 minutes) </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Approval of the <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/service-levels-cctld-creation-transfer-process-change-analysis-09jan20-en.pdf">
<span style="color:#1155CC">PTI SLA for the ccTLD Creation and Transfer Process</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Reappointment of Matthew Shears to seat 14 on the ICANN Board.
<span style="background:white">The NCPH has reappointed Matthew Shears for Seat 14 on the ICANN Board of Directors. This agenda item is intended to acknowledge the selection and confirm that the notification process as outlined in Section 7.25 of the ICANN
Bylaws has been completed.</span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="color:#172B4D">Item 4: COUNCIL DISCUSSION – GNSO Work Prioritization - 2020 Work Plan (30 minutes)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">After the GNSO Council’s Strategic Planning Session in January 2020, the Council acknowledged that there are limited resources available for policy development activities
and related work. This resource limitation means that the GNSO Council must efficiently complete its current work, but also prioritize the new work waiting in its pipeline. At the Strategic Planning Session, Councilors participated in an informal and non-binding
ranking survey, which was used as a “sense of the room.” This informational survey result was shared with Councilors to then share with their respective Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies, to gain a better sense of the various groups’ top priorities. The
Council touched on this topic briefly during the February Council meeting and again during its March meeting.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">Council leadership and staff developed a
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/draft-framework-council-work-plan-14apr20-en.pdf"><span style="color:#1155CC">draft work plan</span></a></span><span style="color:#172B4D"> for the Council’s
consideration. Previously, the focus was on prioritization of the GNSO’s work, which implies that the work should be ranked in order of priority. However, Council leadership determined that it might be more practical to think of this exercise more simply as
establishing a work plan, which does still consider the urgency of the work, but also looks at each element of work in a more granular fashion and identifies potential dependencies. What this allows the Council to do is to potentially carve out pieces of work
from a project that might be initiated in the near-term, some of which may then serve as the preparatory/informational basis for Council next steps.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">The Council discussed this approach at its April 2020 meeting and afterwards, solicited feedback from Councilors and their respective SG/Cs. Considering that input, Council
leadership has tried to provide more certainty around when each of the efforts and if applicable, discrete parts, can practically begin. Council leadership shared that proposal [INSERT LINK WHEN AVAILABLE]with the Council. This proposal also seeks to take
into consideration ongoing work and when it might reasonably complete, but also the effects to the community’s capacity from the coronavirus pandemic.<b> </b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">Here, the Council will discuss the latest proposed work plan and consider what additional steps may be needed to come to agreement, if any, and to then subsequently put
the plan into action.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">4.1 – Introduction of topic (Council leadership)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">4.2 – Council discussion</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">4.3 – Next steps</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="color:#172B4D">Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Draft Response to the Board Letter on Implementation Concerns for EPDP Phase 1 Recommendation 7, related to Thick WHOIS Transition Policy
(20 minutes)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">In adopting the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification Final Report and Recommendations, the Council requested that an informal Implementation
Review Team (IRT) be established, which was done. After the recommendations were approved by the ICANN Board, the informal IRT transitioned to a formal IRT and has diligently been working to implement the policy recommendations. Within the IRT, there are diverging
views amongst some IRT members on how to implement recommendation 7, especially in relation to the Thick WHOIS Transition Policy for .COM, .NET, and .JOBS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">The ICANN Board, taking note of the potential impasse, sent a
<a href="https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/botterman-to-drazek-2-11mar20-en.pdf">
<span style="color:#1155CC">letter</span></a> to the GNSO Council on 11 March 2020. The Council has considered the letter and agrees that recommendation 7 did not explicitly overturn the Thick Whois Transition Policy; to do so will require the GNSO Council
to initiate policy development. A small team of Councilors has prepared a draft response (INSERT LINK WHEN AVAILABLE] for the Council’s consideration.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">Here, the Council will discuss and agree on next steps, and ensure that the draft response is consistent with that approach. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">5.1 - Introduction of topic (Rafik Dammak)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">5.2 – Council discussion</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">5.3 – Next steps</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="color:#172B4D">Item 6: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Expedited PDP (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification Phase 2 Update (25 minutes)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">Phase 2 of the Expedited PDP (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification was initiated in March 2019, and is focused on developing policy on a System for Standardized Access/Disclosure
(SSAD) to non-public gTLD registration data, as well as other topics identified in Phase 2 of the Charter. The EPDP Team published its
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/epdp-phase-2-initial-2020-02-07-en"><span style="color:#1155CC">Phase 2 Initial Report</span></a></span><span style="color:#172B4D"> for public comment on 7 February 2020, focused
on the SSAD. Subsequently, the EPDP Team also published its </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/epdp-phase-2-addendum-2020-03-26-en"><span style="color:#1155CC">Addendum</span></a></span><span style="color:#172B4D">
for public comment on 26 March 2020, which was focused on priority 2 items. The Council will receive an update on the EPDP Team’s progress (see the team’s
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/epdp-phase-2-project-package-summary-timeline-30apr20-en.pdf"><span style="color:#1155CC">project package from 30 April</span></a></span><span style="color:#172B4D">)
from the GNSO Council’s liaison to the group, Rafik Dammak.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">Additionally, the Council will discuss the challenges the EPDP Team is experiencing in reaching agreement on certain topics (e.g., accuracy, legal versus natural, etc.).
The EPDP Team notes these challenges in the context of elements that may affect delivery of the Final Report in June 2020 (e.g., reviewing the voluminous and complex public comments received), which may then have an impact on both the availability of the EPDP
Chair and funding for the project. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">Here, the Council will consider these issues and consider how it might aid in the timely delivery of the Final Report and to the extent there are unresolved issues, how
they should be handled.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">6.1 – Introduction of topic (Council leadership)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">6.2 – Council discussion</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">6.3 – Next steps</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="color:#172B4D">Item 7: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Anticipated Outcome on DNS Abuse (20 minutes)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">The topic of DNS Abuse was not explicitly identified in the charter of the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP (SubPro). However, it was a topic of interest identified by
the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team (CCT-RT), which made recommendations regarding the subject. In considering the CCT-RT Final Report, the ICANN Board took varying actions on 35 total recommendations, accepting some, passing through
others, and placing some in a pending status (see </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/resolutions-final-cct-recs-scorecard-01mar19-en.pdf"><span style="color:#1155CC">scorecard</span></a></span><span style="color:#172B4D">).
SubPro considered the recommendations related to DNS Abuse (i.e., 14, 15, and 16) though they remain in a “Pending” status” (with the exception of recommendation 16, which was partially passed through) and have not been approved by the ICANN Board.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">On 27 April 2020, the SubPro Co-Chairs sent a
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/neuman-langdon-orr-to-drazek-27apr20-en.pdf"><span style="color:#1155CC">letter</span></a></span><span style="color:#172B4D"> to the GNSO Council to
share the current thinking of the Working Group on the topic of DNS abuse. In brief, the Co-Chairs shared that the WG is trending towards recommending that a holistic solution will be needed in all gTLDs, not just new gTLDs, and is therefore not expected to
make substantive recommendations on the topic of DNS Abuse. The purpose of communicating this expected outcome in advance is because the WG is keenly aware how important this topic is across the community.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">Here, the Council will discuss the letter and consider if any actions are needed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">7.1 – Introduction of topic (Council leadership)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">7.2 – Council discussion</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#172B4D">7.3 – Next steps</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Item 8: ANY OTHER BUSINESS (5 minutes)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">8.1 - ICANN68 virtual meeting planning<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Appendix 1: GNSO Council Voting Thresholds (ICANN Bylaws, Article 11, Section 11.3(i))</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">See </span>
<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article11"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article11</span></a><span style="color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Appendix 2: GNSO Council Absentee Voting Procedures (GNSO Operating Procedures, Section 4.4)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">See </span>
<a href="https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/op-procedures-30jan18-en.pdf"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/op-procedures-30jan18-en.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">DST starts/ends on Sunday 25 of October 2020, 2:00 or 3:00 local time (with exceptions) for EU countries and on Sunday 01 of November 2020 for the US.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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