ICANN58 Copenhagen

GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team Summary of the meeting: On 30 June 2016, the GNSO Council approved the creation of a Drafting Team (DT) that was to work with ICANN staff to “fully identify all the new or additional rights and responsibilities that the GNSO has under the revised Bylaws, including but not limited to participation of the GNSO within the Empowered Community, and to develop new or modified structures and procedures (as necessary) to fully implement these new or additional rights and responsibilities”. In creating the DT, the GNSO Council requested that the DT provide the GNSO Council with an implementation plan “which will have the consensus of the Drafting Team, including any recommendations for needed further changes to ICANN Bylaws and/or GNSO Operating Procedures to enable effective GNSO participation in ICANN activities under the revised ICANN Bylaws, not later than 30 September 2016”. The DT submitted its Final Report to the GNSO Council on 12 October 2016 (https://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/bylaws-drafting-team-final-report-12oct16-en.pdf). On 07 November, the GNSO Council accepted the recommendations in the DT’s report as submitted and directed ICANN Policy Staff to draft proposed language for any necessary modifications or additions to the GNSO Operating Procedures and, if applicable, those parts of the ICANN Bylaws pertaining to the GNSO. The GNSO Council requests that ICANN Legal evaluate whether the proposed modifications are consistent with the post-transition Bylaws and report their findings to the GNSO Council. The GNSO Council requests that members of the DT make themselves available for consultation by ICANN Policy Staff as needed. This is a meeting of the DT to discuss the current draft proposed language for possible modifications or additions to the GNSO Operating Procedures and, if applicable, the ICANN Bylaws.
Agenda https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/GNSO+Bylaws+Implementation+Drafting+Team.
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Staff Leader: Julie Hedlund