Jun
28
2017
ICANN59 Agenda Item 17 - Meeting with ICANN Board
Session Details:
Thomas Schneider, GAC Chair
ICANN Board
The GAC will be meeting with the ICANN Board to
none.
Session Minutes:
The GAC met with the ICANN Board and discussed the following issues:
- 2-character country and territory codes at the second level: See Agenda Item 3.
- The Board’s response to GAC advice on IGO protections: See Agenda Item 6.
- Recent dialogue between the GAC, the GAC Public Safety Working Group and the ICANN CEO on mitigating domain name abuse: GAC and PSWG members thanked the CEO for the dialogue and looked forward to
further regular exchanges if possible. - Improvements to ICANN document handling: The CEO acknowledged that there were problems with lack of consistent document
labelling /tracking includingin the ICANN website. ICANN was working on a new document management system as part of a major project. - Receiving Board responses to GAC advice earlier: The Board would try to avoid conveying their responses just before an ICANN meeting.
- Changes in Board and ICANN Organisation procedures for processing GAC advice: This is in place at the Board level. The CEO said that ICANN
organisation was looking at ways to support fact-based discussions in the GAC, including addressing concerns of individual countries. - Options for GAC adding value to the annual GDD Summit: The CEO said that ICANN organisation facilitates the summits but does not set the agenda, and that some cross-community dialogue, or at least exchange of information, should be possible.
- Opportunities for the GAC to contribute to ICANN work on the interaction between the European Union General Data Protection Regulation and Registration Directory Services
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