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Monday, 26 October 2009 Tuesday, 27 October 2009 Thursday, 29 October 2009*
GNSO Council Open Meeting
Time: 0800 - 1230
Location: Crystal A (L2)
Author: Alan
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ICANN Strategic Planning Consultation
Time: 0900 - 1030
Location: Crystal B (L2)
Author: Adam, Gareth, Dave, Carlos
The new CEO seems determined to avoid charges of insularity in the planning process. He gave a clear outline of what the corporate thinking is, the context of the process - AOC being top of mind - and how he would wish the community to engage. They were well-prepared to accept feedback on the fly.Carlton Dave |
Workshop: DNSSEC
Time: 0900 - 1230
Location: Sapphire 4 (L3)
Author: Patrick, Darlene, Hawa
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ccNSO Members Meeting
Time: 0900 - 1530
Location: Emerald (L2)
Author: Adam
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Review of the Nominating Committee: presentation of the WG report
Time: 1100 - 1230
Location: Garnet (L37)
Author: Wolf, Sébastien, Evan, Dave
4 Main recommendations (out of 19) to be discussed:Criteria for Outreach and Selection |
- Recruiting should be separate from the selection
- Candidate requirements – board identifies and communicates needed skills
- Are they accessing an adequate candidate pool? Gender balance does not happen so what else are they missing? (There are no female NomCom Directors to the Board.)
- Comments: Perhaps it’s such an onerous process that we are setting up barriers for getting a wider pool of candidates. However, although diversity is important, quality must be the overriding concern.
Chairman Succession
- How is the Chairman brought into the Nominating Committee?
- Currently, there is a chair, an associate chair (who is selected by the chair to do the heavy lifting) and an advisor (out-going past chair). They are suggesting that it be flipped so that the incoming chair works as a kind “vice-chair” for the first year so as to learn the job and then in the second year becomes chair. The job of associate chair wouldn’t change. The change is suggested because sometimes you get people that have no experience chairing a nominating committee and need to be brought up to speed.
- Questions: Since the chair is then a two year position, what happens if the incoming chair spends the first year learning and then leaves the position? There needs to be a backup position. Also, what happens if the “experienced” chair leaves mid-term?
Committee Debrief
- Not discussed
Committee Composition
- Drivers for change:
- Review
- GNSO Reform
- At Large Director
- The current nominating committee has the following balance of voting positions: 7 from GNSO, 5 from ALAC, and 1 each from ccNSO, ASO, Academic Society, IETF and TLG. Non-voting contingents are the Chair, Past Chair, RSSAC, SSAC, GAC and Assistant Chair. Two other balances were suggested.
- The question is that of size and balance. Should the committee be smaller or larger? Some thought that room needs to be kept for the wide diversity of stakeholder groups. Some thought “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.” There doesn’t seem to be much of a concrete reason to change it. It was suggested to see how things play out before making any changes. Several people from At-Large spoke up to defend our 5 spaces on the NomCom. We need the regional diversity.
A question came up about recall of the NomCom members that are selected for ALAC. Is there any mechanism in place? It doesn’t sound like any criteria have been set in this regard and this needs to be looked into.
Report made by Darlene Thompson
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Majority of members in favor of keeping the NomCom size as it is currently.
Report for Public Comment until 22 November 2009 - http://bit.ly/4AhaPA
Dave
PLEASE feel free to make any updates you would like! |
Tutorial on New 2009 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA)
Time: 1100 - 1230
Location: Crystal B (L2)
Author: Beau
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Board review: presentation of the draft final report of the review WG
Time: 1230 - 1400
Location: Sapphire 4 (L3)
Author: Adam, Sébastien, Hawa, José
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Trademark Protection and new gTLDs
Time: 1230 - 1400
Location: Crystal A (L2)
Author: Patrick, Evan, James, Olivier, Carlton, Carlos, José, Dave
Kathy kleiman mentioned that the trademark validation for clearinghouse should be regional, since Trademark laws are local.The clearinghouse is simply a database of information.It's not intended to extend a common law U.S right into another country |
Root Scaling Study Results
Time: 1330 - 1500
Location: Crystal A (L2)
Author: Gareth, James, Hawa
Root Scaling |
The extent of the load placed on the system needs to be monitored carefully. If very large numbers of IDN TLDs are introduced within short time periods this could also cause problems. If the amount of data to be transferred to the root servers daily gets too large some of the servers with lower speed connections may not be able to keep up.
Gareth |
Registration Abuse Policies Working Group
Time: 1400 - 1530
Location: Sapphire 4 (L3)
Author: Beau, José, Andrés, Wolf, Vivek
Rudi : I attended the meeting a bit later, with Beau and Vivec. There was low attendance. As I perceived the discussion I would say there are a lot of talks and less of actions. The abuse aspects are wellknown, however they delay the report and as a result of that block somehow the fact of moving forward in helping to clean up the domain name space from abuse.vivek: |
- The group observed that domain names are used for spam/phishing and malware practices and setting up this campaign can be identified during registrations.
- It was observed that one cannot speculate the intent at the time of registration and policing the same is not possible 100%
- It was also pointed out that in Sweden and UK there is requirement for certain categories of registration such as banks to give some kind of proof of the company activities when people try to register to understand the intent.
- However there were observations that some amount of caution can be exercised and this needs education to registrars but to be cautious as it could turn out loosing customers
- The group said it will be ready with a report on this by the Nairobi meeting. Further issues of finding whether correlation between these activities as well as proxy registrations were discussed. |
SSAC review: presentation of the draft report of the review Working Group
Time: 1400 - 1530
Location: Garnet (L37)
Author: Sébastien
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Board Committee on Public Participation
Time: 1430 - 1600
Location: Crystal B (L2)
Author: Alan, Sébastien, Cheryl, Dave
Reviews under Affirmation of Commitments:Accountability & Transparency |
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Internationalising Registration Information (Whois data)
Time: 1500 - 1630
Location: Crystal A (L2)
Author: James
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ccNSO Council Meeting
Time: 1600 - 1700
Location: Emerald (L2)
Author: Rudi
First short report from the council meeting : the proposed project at ALAC which was forwarded by my colleague in ccNSO Ron Sherwood seems to be well received by the ccNso members. No question were asked which may reflect the fact they well understood the background of this proposal. Ron told me he had some talks with a few members and they seamlessly are pleased with the ALAC helping to outreach and undertake some survey on the collaboration among ALS and ccTLDs.No special comments on the meeting itself, went smoot and quickly and well in time as scheduled. |
Board (SIC) Forum on GNSO Improvements/Restructuring
Time: 1600 - 1730
Location: Crystal B (L2)
Author: Gareth
There was quite an interesting question to the panel from Jean-Jacques; he asked them to imagine the near future; 5-10 years was his definition. I think he was probing to see if they had a sense of how AOC might turn out. One respondent imagined the future by looking back and opined that the so many changes over the past decade will only accelerate and be more multifaceted in the next decade. Another see internationalization taking root and increased civility resulting. This gentleman - Jean-Jacques - is really smooth.....clearly a deep thinker with panoramic headspace.Carlton Samuels |
ICANN Whois Data Accuracy Study
Time: 1600 - 1730
Location: Sapphire 4 (L3)
Author: Olivier, Dave
Many domains used solely for emails, thus having only MX records; assumption that domain with no A record is inactive is badStudy based on odd assumptions |
