Hi Tatiana,

Thank you very much for this exercise and i am sure our members will
find it useful. As you said, we as GNSO Councilors, are available if
there is any question with regards to what was discussed at the
previous meeting.

I personally am involved, as part of the small group of GNSO
Councilors who were tasked to look closely to the issue that is
affecting the SSR2 RT and provide suggestions to the Council. We had
discussions and have drafted a letter to SO/AS leaders who have the
responsibility to decide when and how this RT should resume. This
letter will be part of the discussions during the Council meeting that
will be happening as part of the Strategic Meeting happening next week
in Los Angeles.

I have been following this issue since it happened at ICANN60 and
would like to hear if our members have any interest/thoughts or
questions with regards to this important accountability mechanism, the
review team. We can discuss over email (on the list or privately) and
during the PC call today.

Regards,
Arsene


2018-01-23 17:51 UTC+02:00, Tatiana Tropina <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear NCSG members,
>
> as a preparation for tomorrow's policy call, I would like to share some
> information about the previous GNSO meeting to refresh your memory (in case
> you listened to the previous GNSO meeting) or provide enough information
> and summary so you can easily catch up.
>
> The previous GNSO meeting took place on December, 21st. If you are
> interested in details of the discussion, you can check the minutes of the
> meeting
> <https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/minutes-council-21dec17-en.pdf>.
> I will try to link the following summary with the documents and discussion
> to what is going to happen at the GNSO meeting and to the discussions at
> our policy call tomorrow.
>
> In summary, at the previous meeting, the GNSO at the meeting on 21st of
> December, 2017:
>
> 1) Adopted the GNSO Standing Committee on Budget & Operations (SCBO)
> Charter
> <https://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/draft-icann-budget-operations-charter-11dec17-en.pdf>
> on
> an interim basis. You might remember NSCG leadership issued a call for
> volunteers for SCBO, and we have several GNSO councillors from NCSG
> participating in that committee.
>
> 2) Discussed the updates on the charter drafting exercise related to the
> next
> steps for the ICANN Procedure of Handling Whois conflicts with Privacy. As
> a result of the discussion, the drafting team members were tasked to share
> draft charter and identified questions in charter with their SG/Cs for
> feedback, review this input and finalize the charter for GNSO Council
> consideration. This issue is now taken to the Council vote for the next
> meeting on 30th of January, 2018 - you can check the motion
> <https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+30+January+2018>
> for
> the Council vote. I believe we are going to discuss this on the NCSG policy
> call tomorrow.
>
> 3) Planned for the ICANN 61. The Councillors were updated on the progress
> of the ICANN61 block schedule and nature and number of cross-community
> topics being discussed. Currently, the schedule is still work in progress
> and will be posted in February.
>
> 4) Discussed the updates on progress for the “Review of all Rights
> Protection
> Mechanisms in all gTLDs” data request. The updates were provided by the
> three co-chairs of the Review of all Rights Protection Mechanisms in all
> gTLDs (RPM) PDP WG, Phil Corwin, Kathy Kleiman and J. Scott Evans. You can
> check their presentation
> <https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/presentation-rpm-rfp-timeline-19dec17-en.pdf>
> for the update.
>
> 5) Discussed under the AOB agenda item the update on the progress of the
> Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team. As you might
> remember, this Review Team was suspended at the time of ICANN60 meeting,
> and this suspension raised a lot of controversies as to how the review
> teams can operate within the empowered community and what the ICANN Board's
> role in the suspension could possibly be, if at all.
> As an action item from this discussion, the Standing Selection Committee,
> as requested by the GNSO Council, was tasked to review the 3 remaining GNSO
> SSR2 candidates against the skills matrix developed by SSR2 RT members
> following ICANN60, and to provide their findings to the GNSO
> Council. However, it was also generally agreed that the reasons for
> suspending SSR2 RT activity were unclear not only to the GNSO Council, but
> to the SSR2 RT members themselves.
> The next GNSO meeting has under the Agenda
> <https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Final+Proposed+Agenda+30+January+2018>
> item 9 the review of Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2-RT)
> Letter from GNSO Council to SO/AC leadership.
>
> If you are interested in any item of the summary in more detail, you can
> listen to the MP3 <http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-council-21dec17-en.mp3>
> or Adobe connect recording <https://participate.icann.org/p3i6wszs6m8/> of
> the previous GNSO meeting on 21st of December, or read the transcript
> <https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/transcript-council-21dec17-en.pdf>
> here. Furthermore, if you have any questions - I or other GNSO councillors
> from NCSG are very happy to answer them.
>
> See you tomorrow on the NCSG policy call! Also, as a reminder, you can
> always follow the next GNSO meeting on 30th of January at 22:00 UTC by
> listening live via this link <http://stream.icann.org:8000/stream01.m3u>.
>
> Warm regards,
> Tatiana Tropina
>


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