2014-05-13 GAC GNSO CG

The meeting of the GAC GNSO Consultation Group of Tuesday 13 May 2014.

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Proposed Agenda:

Action items - 13/5 meeting:

• Additional GAC member(s) may not be confirmed until London
• 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.
• Consider having information / update out prior to the meeting in London to allow for more focused discussion

Day-to-day work track

• 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)
• Consider discussing options A and F together as these are closely linked, and possibly C
• Also consider working on E (awareness and notification) - highlighting existing mechanisms and possibly survey GAC members on the usefuleness of those
• Option F not considered inconsistent with A - could be considered a resource to A
• 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).
• Role / job specification of liaison is a critical element of option A
• Confirm proposed approach with workplan and adapt workplan as necessary
• Option E - summarize current options, followed by a survey (in combination with discussion in London - also to encourage participation)
• Staff to support development of online survey in combination with a briefing document

PDP work track

• Break down phases along the same way as this is done in the GNSO PDP graphics - update for next version
• Consider starting review of PDP chronologically - first steps first and work way through the existing process
• Important to engage GAC at an early stage incl. at the Issue Report stage
• Need to understand current mechanisms and determine whether anything else should be done, either from the GNSO or GAC side to facilitate early engagement
• Streamlining of communication into GAC will be important element
• Early stages of PDP are marked in the PDP early awareness documents shared with the GAC
• Focus on issue identification / reporting, early opportunities for engagement that currently exist for the short term
• Consider commenting / responding on the documents on the mailing list and then integrate those into the documents (in a timely manner)