<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div>Dear All,</div><div><br></div><div>Please find below the discussion points / action items from today's GAC- GNSO Consultation Group's meeting for your review. If you have any comments / questions, please share those by Friday at the latest.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Marika</div><div><br></div><div><b>Discussion Points Action Items 13/5</b>:</div><ul><li>Additional GAC member(s) may not be confirmed until London</li><li>Members of GAC-GNSO CG will have until Friday to comment on the action items coming out of this meeting - following that these will be considered agreed.</li><li>Consider having information / update out prior to the meeting in London to allow for more focused discussion</li></ul><div><b>Day-to-day work track</b></div><ul><li>Travel funding has been confirmed for the GNSO liaison to the GAC for FY15 from the ICANN meeting in LA onwards (as a pilot project)</li><li>Consider discussing options A and F together as these are closely linked, and possibly C</li><li>Also consider working on E (awareness and notification) - highlighting existing mechanisms and possibly survey GAC members on the usefuleness of those</li><li>Option F not considered inconsistent with A - could be considered a resource to A</li><li>Consider presenting options A-F in London, noting that the proposal is to move forward initially with options A in combination with F, as well as E (survey).</li><li>Role / job specification of liaison is a critical element of option A</li><li>Confirm proposed approach with workplan and adapt workplan as necessary</li><li>Option E - summarize current options, followed by a survey (in combination with discussion in London - also to encourage participation)</li><li>Staff to support development of online survey in combination with a briefing document</li></ul><div><b>PDP work track</b></div><ul><li>Break down phases along the same way as this is done in the GNSO PDP graphics - update for next version</li><li>Consider starting review of PDP chronologically - first steps first and work way through the existing process</li><li>Important to engage GAC at an early stage incl. at the Issue Report stage</li><li>Need to understand current mechanisms and determine whether anything else should be done, either from the GNSO or GAC side to facilitate early engagement</li><li>Streamlining of communication into GAC will be important element</li><li>Early stages of PDP are marked in the PDP early awareness documents shared with the GAC </li><li>Focus on issue identification / reporting, early opportunities for engagement that currently exist for the short term</li><li>Consider commenting / responding on the documents on the mailing list and then integrate those into the documents (in a timely manner)</li></ul></div></body></html>