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Maureen Hilyard is the ccNSO Liaison for 2013-2015.

ccNSO Report January 2015

• ccNSO Internet Governance Coordination Committee: At the Council meeting, I was appointed as an observer on the ccNSO IG Coordination Committee - IG issues for ccTLDs are an interest area for me and I appreciate the support of the Council for my membership of this committee; 
• ALAC-ccNSO meeting in Singapore (Tuesday 10th Feb, 7.15am-8.15am). Their proposed topics include: Setting a fixed time for future meetings, CWG Stewardship: progress to date, Decision making processes, outreach efforts? and CCWG Accountability: progress to date. More details as the Council minutes become available.
• ccNSO Newcomer Webinar- 27 January @ 8:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC. To introduce newcomers to the ccNSO and ICANN world 
• ccNSO Council mtg Agenda (22 January 1200UTC) to include updates on : Internet Governance Update (Jordan Carter); IANA Stewardship Transition Process (CWG-Lise Fuhr; ICG-Keith Davidson; ISTACC-Byron Holland); Enhancement ICANN's Accountability Process (Matthieu Weill); Appointment of members to the Review Guidelines Committee and of the ccNSO IG Coordination Committee; Name Collision issue; Feedback on the Top 5 ICANN Enterprise Risks for the Board Risk Committee; Council Schedule for the Singapore meeting (including meeting with ALT on Tuesday am); and Councillors' updates. 
• Meeting documents from 11 Dec Council meeting available http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/minutes.htm (minutes still to be confirmed)
• Current email discussions: 
  • Patrick Myles flagged in his GNSO report the topic of ICANN revenue produced by the new gTLD auctions - a CCWG appropriate?
  • Chris Disspain recently raised gTLDs wanting the CWG Accountability Group to have a role in determining an Appeals process for registry operators and governments (In the case of ccTLDs) to deal with delegation and "redelegation" decisions. Don't they recognise the new policy that the Freedom of Interpretation WG (FOIWG) spent more than 3 years developing? (Cheryl to comment?) 
  • Olivier began the year with a request for ccTLDs who were not members of ccNSO - I raised the spreadsheet which Ron, Dev and I partially coordinated, of ALS, ccNSO  and GAC members from each country. Not all countries have all 3 organisational members. RALO coordination is required to complete the details in the spreadsheet but then it would be helpful to be able to attach it to something meaningful where the information could be accessed and made useful. 

ccNSO Report 15 December 2014

• ALAC staff's suggested times for the ALAC-ccNSO joint meeting are to be proposed to the next Council meeting. The suggested times are Sunday evening, or Tuesday morning (before the start of the ccNSO meeting). A proposal for a topic or topics TBC before then as well. Katrina will consult with Byron and Keith. 
• ccTLD feedback is being sought for a range of topics to be considered by the Triage team for presentation to the Council. The topics are being considered include: Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information; auDA's alternative proposal to the CWG; IDN TLDs - LGR Procedure Implementation - Maximal Starting Repertoire Vn 2 (refer to https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-12-15-en; IGO/INGO Access to curative rights protections WG; and.. Country and Territory Names within the .BMW and .MINI TLDs 
• Draft ccNSO meeting schedule for Tues 10 and Weds 11 Feb 2015, http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/Singapore52/agenda.htm 
• ccNSO Council meeting held on 11 December 2014 (2am Cook Islands)
• Jordan Carter, ccNSO co-Chair of the CCWG-Internet Governance reported that due to the attention focused largely on the IANA stewardship and Accountability processes there is little action for other WGs. They are currently fleshing out ideas with other co-Chairs for their first call and a work programme, and for Singapore meeting
• CWG Accountability report by Lise Fuhr - "There seem to be concerns regarding the Independent Appeals Panel and delegation and re-delegation of ccTLDs. Furthermore the relationship between Contract co. and the Root Zone Manager has been raised as an issue too. Overall within the cc-community there seem to be concerns about the rushing of the proposal because of the deadline of January 30 and concerns about the accountability group not being on the same track since they haven’t really started yet."
• CCWG use of Country and Territory Names - the co-Chairs of this CCWG requested the ccNSO and the GNSO councils not to object to the submission proposed by the CCWG as part of the public comment process of the GAC sub-group on Geographic Names. The council agreed to not object.to the statement stating t the use of country and territory names in new gTLD strings. The submission is as follows:

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Paul Szyndler – ccNSO Member, .auCo-Chair CWG on Country and Territory Names as top-level Domain

ccNSO Report  18/11/2014

• Thomas Rickert is the new GNSO liaison to the ccNSO 
• Documents delivered in preparation for the ccNSO Council meeting 20 Nov 1200UTC: ALAC Liaison Report, cNSO Activity Update, CCWGCharter
• With Don Hollander's resignation as General Manager of APTLD, their Board is advertising through the ccNSO system for a replacement. 
• ccNSO have a Secure Email Communication for ccTLD Incidence Response (SECIR) working group that is looking at a working version of the SECIR services online as soon as possible. The SECIR services will be based on DNS-OARC’s OPS-Trust platform, as proposed to and approved by the community at ICANN51 in LA

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• Regional organisations have sent out a survey to ccTLD managers - members and non-members - to provide the CWG reps with as wide a view as possible on their expectations of the IANA stewardship transition and how IANA should be structured in the future. A webinar is taking place on Tuesday November 4^th at 8 - 9 AM UTC (Adobe Room:  https://icann.adobeconnect.com/cwg-istp/) to provide an overview whats currently happening and to give everyone some background to the survey and allow for questions. Current discussion on the ccNSO email list have raised several questions already from the community which will add grist to the mill.  

• the Council voted for a Co-Chair for the Drafting Team Charter of the ccWG Accountability - Mathieu Weill (.FR)

• Although a meeting evaluation for the LA meeting was taken, the results are unfortunately as individual responses rather than an aggregated analysis which would have been interesting. ALAC doesn't seek an evaluation from its members of what went well, and what could be improved at face-to-face meetings. Could be something to look at.

• Because the session on Universal Acceptance was on at the same time as the Council meeting, Don Hollander provided a report which included some important issues for the ccNSO.

  • There was an action item for the ccNSO council to make sure that papers that it has approved are monitored on a regular basis as they flow through the rest of the ICANN community.

  • ICANN has started development work on a roadmap with some ideas, but no execution.   
  • Their plans include:
    • Developing some presentation decks and related collateral that different members of the community can use locally.
    • Going to software development conferences to raise the issue.
    • Planning for a help-desk where problems associated with Universal Access can be received, recorded, and forwarded to the relevant party.
    • None of these initiatives are actually in place.

• • Mozilla has maintained a Public Suffice List for some time.  This list is used by many applications to validate top and 2^nd level domain space.   IANA appears to be providing a CSV file with a copy of TLDs for validation.  While ICANN update this four times a day, Mozilla – which maintains the Public Suffix List through a volunteer effort – keeps their file update once a month or so as volunteer time becomes available.
  • The JIG report, which was a cooperative agreement between the ccNSO and the gNSO, remains unadopted by the Board.
  •  A comment was made that ICANN was looking to raise Universal Acceptance to the same level as IPv6 and DNSSEC, yet both those initiatives have been underway for nearly two decades.
  • There is a group outside of ICANN who are keen to see Universal Acceptance sorted and APTLD will be building a ‘coalition of the willing’ to identify paths to solution – with a possible meeting in Morocco in conjunction with ICANN52.

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Latest ccNSO Council Minutes: ccNSO Council Minutes 25 September

ccNSO Council preparation material and output can be found here http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/minutes.htm

ccNSO Council Decisions on Requests for input: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/decisions.htm

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ccNSO members for the CWG announced (07/10/2014); 

Lise Fuhr, Erick Iriarte, Paul Kane, Vika Mpisane, Staffan Jonson

(Summary) Council meeting minutes - 25 September (08/10/14)

 1. Minutes and Actions - All action items completed with exception the action regarding a note to ICANN about the number of ccNSO seats on the Accountability process Coordination Group, which had been overtaken by events.

2. Selection ccNSO Participants ICANN Leadership Training - Resolution 98-01:THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to appoint Hasnul Fadhyly Bin Hasan, .my and Mohammed Al-Kindy, .om for the ICANN Academy Leadership Training Program. The selection was based on following criteria: (1) Representative of ccTLD managers, (2) Potential leadership role in the ccNSO/ccTLD community

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Call for (additional) Volunteers - current members of the Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance; Participants - Jordan Carter, Becky Burr, Young-eum Lee, Abibu Nitahigeiye (Observer) Keith Davidson.  Resolution 98-03: THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to request its Secretariat to seek confirmation of the current members whether or not they want to remain members of the Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance. Once confirmed, the secretariat is requested to send a call for volunteers for the remainder of the slots. The volunteers will be appointed / reconfirmed by the Council. The chair and vice-chairs of the Council are requested to propose a candidate for co-chair of the Working Group, to be confirmed by the Council. Action 98-02: The Secretariat to seek confirmation from the current members of the Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance on whether or not they would like to stay on the group.  Action 98-03: The Secretariat to send out a call for volunteers for the remaining slots of the Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance.

4.  Cross-Community Working Group on the IANA Stewardship Transition - The Chair noted that theGNSO had adopted the charter of the Cross-Community Working Group on the IANA Stewardship Transition, that the ALAC is in the process of selecting members, that SSAC about to call for volunteers and that the GAC had expressed interest to participate in this group. He further noted that he had written a letter with the GNSO chair Jonathan Robinson suggesting that the timeline that had been set for this group was unrealistic. He also noted that he would initially act as interim co-chair together with Jonathan but that the intent is to select another ccNSO co-chair once the group has been formed. He finally noted that observers had been given a significant status in the group, and even though  they would not be able to vote they would be welcomed participate actively in the work of the group. He encouraged anyone interested in this work to join as an observer.  The Chair noted the receipt of a letter from Peter Van Roste urging the Council to be inclusive and transparent in the selection process of the Working Group members and suggested that instead of the Council selecting all candidates, the regional managers could come together and chose one of the five. The Council agreed that the selection meant to be made on the special Council meeting the same day should focus on selecting four of the candidates whilst the fifth candidate would be presented by the Regional Organisations within a few days, and that no final Council approval of the fifth candidate would be necessary. Lesley Cowley suggested that the Council and the Regional Organisations could have a separate discussion on to improve collaboration in the future. Peter Van Roste welcomed the suggestion and noted that the Regional Managers would do their best to put forward a candidate within the next few days. Peter also agreed with Lesley’s suggestion and noted that some work in this respect is already ongoing.

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10 Liaison Updates - The Chair noted that written updates had already been provided from the GNSO and ALAC liaisons.

ccNSO Activity Summary September 23 2014

1.The ccNsO Council have been very occupied with activities that have overtaken much of other SO and AC agendas at this time, namely:

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3.This month's ccNSO Council meeting will be held on Thursday 25th September at (2am my time). Although it is during PacINET conference week, I will attend. 

ccNSO Activity Summary - August 2014

*(26 Aug) NOTE: There is concern being raised in ccNSO Council emails about ccNSO only having one seat on the Accountability Coordination Group (while gNSO gets 4). It is viewed as a very top-down approach and the appointment process of the experts group is also worrying.  They are interested in other SO/AC views. Evan?

1. Notes from the ccNSO meeting  held 21 August 1200UTC (no meeting in July)

a.       ccNSO Council Elections 2015.

Councillors whose term concludes in March 2015 include, Vika Mpisane (Africa), Young Eum Lee (Asia Pacific), Katarina Sataki (Europe), Margarita Valdes (Latin America), and Byron Holland (North America). The ccNSO has appointed an election manager for the ccNSO Council Election Process 2015.

b.      ccNSO Board member selection

The seat is currently held by Mike Silber who term ends in 2015. An election manager has been appointed for the ccNSO Board Election Process 2015. One member asked if candidates for both elections could be questioned by the members before the election. Byron confirmed that this would encourage robust dialogue so that the process is more useful to its community.

c.       ccNSO member to the NomCom

The ccNSO appointed Juhari Juselius for another term on the NomCom.

d.      Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions

The ccNSO resolved to adopt the charter for this ccWG including a friendly amendment that has been attached. Byron is to inform the chairs of the other SOs and ACs.  There was quite a bit of discussion about whether it would be possible for a ccTLD which was not a member to take up one of the 5 seats offered to the ccNSO. Byron explained that there will be a selection process but even if non-member ccTLDs are not selected for the formal seats, that they can still participate as observers, and there will be other mechanisms that will also enable them to participate, such as via a webpage and World email list. ccTLDWorld@ICANN.ORG which the staff will establish.  The Council will select its five members at its next meeting.

e.      Council Coordination Group on IANA Stewardship Transition

The Council adopted the charter as proposed for the creation of the IANA Stewardship Transition and Accountability Coordination Committee. ccNSO staff will create a webpage and other means to encourage engagement of the broader ccTLD community in the two processes.

f.        Email vote for candidate for ICANN leadership training. 

Because of the delay in getting a quorum at the Council meeting, the 90 minute limit was reached before all matters could be discussed. The selection of the two candidates for the ICANN leadership training will be voted on by email.

g.      Date of next ccNSO Council meetings   

•  25 September 1200UTC
• 15 October 1500 Local, Los Angeles time
• 20 November, 1200UTC

2.      Meeting between ALAC and ccNSO in Los Angeles

Because of lack of time at the Council meeting, it was decided that Ron, Katrina and I will coordinate logistics and content for the next group meeting. This is still being finalized via Heidi and the staff. Content wise, possibly a presentation of IANA perspectives, as well as an update on the ALAC-ccNSO joint database project proposed at our last meeting. 

3.      ALAC-ccNSO Joint Database project

Discussions with Dev and Ron about progress updates relating to the ALS-ccNSO-GAC coordination for each country which is a member of any of these organisations. The current spreadsheet is listed on  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q8OAE8PcV4pwW05PwfXxfd4Rf06T_QYxL0qH745YZYU/edit?usp=sharing  with an expectation to deliver the LACRALO model of coordination as @  https://community.icann.org/display/lacstrtgy/Existing+ICANN+Stakeholders+from+LAC+region

4.      ccNSO WG on Country Names

I listened  to the recording of the last  meeting  held by the group on 15 July which was mainly an introduction to the previous WG output which was the report on the Use of Country and Territory Names.  Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Country/Territory Names Transcript

5.      ccNSO Activity  Summary for July 2014

http://ccnso.icann.org/resources/activity-summary-jul14-en.htm

6.      ccNSO Action items completed from the last Council meeting.

Action 96-01: The Secretariat to inform the SOP Working Group about the appointment of Giovanni Seppia as interim chair of the Working Group.

 Action 96-02: The secretariat to inform the GNSO and the GNSO appointed co-chairs of the Working Group about the appointment of Lise Fuhr as ccNSO co-chair of the Working Group.

Action 96-03: The Secretariat to inform the GNSO and the GNSO appointed co-chair of the Working Group about the appointment of Becky Burr as co-chair of the Working Group for the Development of a Framework of Principles for Cross-Community Working Groups.

Action 96-04: The Secretariat to send out a call to the ccTLD community for the 4 volunteers to the charter drafting team as soon as possible after closure of the Council meeting and to indicate in the call that those who are interested may attend the informal meeting of the envisioned drafting group during the London meeting.

Action 96-05: The Chair to seek members and nominate the members of the selection committee as soon as possible and send it to the Council for final approval by 26 June noon UTC.   

Action 96-06: The Secretariat to set-up an email list, including email contacts to all ccTLDs, solely for the purpose to inform and engage the community in the IANA Stewardship Transition Process. 

Action 96-07: The Chair to finalize the call for nominations, including the criteria for selection of the 4 ccTLD members on the Coordination Committee and send it to the Council for final approval by 26 June noon UTC.  

Action 96-08: The secretariat to send out the approved call for self-nominations and refer the nominations received to the Selection Committee upon receiving the nomination.

Action 96-09: The Secretariat to publish the names of the nominees for the IANA Coordination Committee on the ccNSO Website.

Action 96-10: The Secretariat to draft a charter for a coordination committee on IANA Stewardship Transition and Accountability.

ccNSO Activity Summary - July 2014

Reminder of London-related Output:

Audio & Transcripts: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/london50/transcripts.htm

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9 July – Latest updates on the IANA Functions

Stewardship Transition: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-16-en

19 July: Statement from the First Meeting of the IANA Stewardship Transition

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8 July - ccNSO London Meeting Highlights Report

7 July -  London Members Meeting Evaluation Results

 ccNSO Liaison Report  for ALAC - July 22

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The London meeting began with the Joint ALAC-ccNSO Leadership meeting (Report is below) where the main action item that resulted from this was the establishment of a database by Dev, Ron and myself linking ALSes with their ccTLDs. This database could be extended later to include GAC representatives as well. A start has been made on the database. During the London meeting I attended the first day of ccNSO presentations but unfortunately was ill on the second day and missed the ccNSO council meeting. The resolution below was the Councils initiation into the Coordination Committee selection process which resulted in the final decision (Report from the ccNSO Selection Committee on IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group) on 11 July.

London ccNSO Meeting Day Two - Draft Resolution from the ccNSO Council meeting - Weds 25 June

The ccNSO Council resolves to establish a 5 members Selection Panel to select the 4 members on the IANA Stewardship Transition Process Coordination Committee. At least 4 of the members of the selection committee shall be from the ccTLD community.  The selection committee will include at least two members of the ccNSO Council, including its chair, one member of a Board of a regional TLD organization and one non-ccNSO member. Its task is to review the applications and select the 4 ccTLD members of the Coordination Committee to the ccNSO Council by (date to be determined) prior to a special meeting of the ccNSO Council on (date to be determined). In its review and selection, the committee will take into account and be guided by the criteria for selection included in the call for nominations.

 The chair of the ccNSO is requested to seek members and nominate the members of the selection committee as soon as possible and send it to the Council for final approval by 26 June noon UTC.  Interviews of candidates may be conducted. Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible as candidates for the Coordination Committee 

London cNSO Meeting Day One - Tuesday 24 June 2014

Board meeting

• Update of Framework of Interpretation WG Delegation and Revocation Paper (final ? meeting on Thursday). Paper interprets existing policies and guidelines although it recognises that there are things not covered by this framework. The GAC has been involved since the group began (6 years ago). The Board Chair strongly recommended that people are made aware of what is in the report (Possible ALS training/webinar?)
• Other matters discussed related to strategic and operational planning; and the next steps IANA Stewardship Transition Process and Enhancement to ICANN's Accountability Process.

Internet Governance

• Several speakers presented IG in relation to ccNSO activities - a primer for ccTLDs on IG and the ITU (.ca); IG for sustainable development (.cn); and the Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Internet Policy in Latin America.

• A panel of speakers were interviewed about their perspectives on enhancing ICANN's Accountability Process. The panel included a ccTLD manager, and representatives from Verisign, RIPE, ICANN and ISOC

GAC meeting

• Heather and Byron shared their group's contributions to the IANA Transition process. Because the ccNSO is creating a cross-community working group to inform the process, Byron invited the GAC to be a member of this group. Heaither explained that the GAC is deciding as to whether they need to contribute to the Coordination Group, but are prepared to provides some comments as inputs to the paper that the ccNSO is producing. 
• A member of the GAC asked if a ccTLD that was not a member of the ccNSO would be offered a seat on the Coordination Group. Byron assured them that the members selected would meet geography and skills criteria.  

ALAC/ccNSO Leadership Meeting - Sunday 22 June 2014

Discussion focus areas:

• identifying and strengthening opportunities for collaboration between the ALAC/At-Large and ccNSO communities

• identifying immediate, medium term and long-term activities
• possible individual ccTLD and local ALS cooperation

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• Because each ccTLD works independently, based on their own laws and legislation, ccNSO is not involved in universal policy development (cf ALAC)
• Their independence of each other, based on their own setups, creates a non-competitive organisation which encourages the sharing of best practice.
• Agreement re: consolidating information about ccTLDs and making this information more accessible and useful for end-users. 
• Beran sought advice re redelegation process. FOIWG paper on delegation and revocation- even after 5 years still not ready for publication - advised to check with Becky Burr and Cheryl Langdon Orr.

ccNSO Liaison Report  for ALAC - May 27 2014

ccNSO meeting in London - 23 - 24 June 2014

Pre-registrations have been done, but their programme is still being coordinated by their Meeting Programme Committee  

• ALAC's traditional meeting with ccNSO is still not yet confirmed

 PROMOTION: Commonwealth DNS Forum 2014: Promoting DNS Investment, Innovation and the Development of Multistakeholder Partnership

19 - 20 June 2014 - coordinated by NOMINET

 KEY TOPICS

•  Domain name industry: Hidden wealth
•  Governance of cyberspace
•  Local content and local relevance
•  Promoting investment and innovation
•  The social impact of gTLDs
•  Multi-stakeholder partnerships to develop public policy and deliver economic and social goals

ccNSO meeting 22 May 2014

• Marshall Islands (.mh) now registered member of ccNSO
• Current working groups
  • Internet governance - currently working on its Charter
  • IANA Stewardship Transition Process -  ccNSO Council Interim Comments on the IANA Transition 29 Apr 2014
  • ICANN Process to Enhance ICANN's accountability; Brief statement to the Board to be made by deadline date - Council statement will follow
  • ccNSO Strategic and Operational Planning - is drafting its submission on its 5-year strategic plan 
  • FOIWG - in final stages of review of the Revocation report and the FOIWG recommendations 
  • Use of Names of Countries and Territories 

Freedom of interpretation WG mtg - 22 May 2014 

 *  It was thought that this might be the WG's final meeting, but additional discussion about the proposed recommendations that will accompany the Revocation report required more meetings to further review the recommendations. This will take place next week (two meetings if required) so that they can get this document completed before May 31, so that it can be ready in time for the FOIWG meeting with the GAC in London.

Summaries of April ccNSO activities 

ccNSO Liaison Report to the ALAC - April 28 2014

• ccNSO Council meeting (17 April) - no resolutions passed due to lack of quorum

 Framework of Interpretation Working Group Progress Report Singapore (25 March)

Calls for ccNSO Council input into :

• (ccNSO) New cross-community Working Group on the Use of Country/Territory Names as TLDs. (Cheryl and Maureen to participate in this group)
• (ccNSO) WG for the Development of a Framework of Principles for Cross-Community WGs
• (ccNSO)Transition of NTIA's Stewardship of the IANA Functions
• ICANN Draft Strategic Plan FY 2016-2020
• (ccNSO) Submissions for NETmundial conference
• (ICANN) Internationalised Registration Data Expert Working Group Interim Report
• (gNSO)Proposed Changes to the Inter-Registrar Policy - video
• (ICANN) Strategy Panel Report (Internet Governance Ecosystem)
• IRD WG Interim Report
• (ccNSO) Quorum Interpretation Committee
• (ccNSO) Presentations ccTLD News Session for London meeting

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• Draft ccNSO Council Statement on ICANN's draft proposal for process to transition key Internet domain name functions
• Draft Statement IANA oversight Transition Process
• Input to Strategy Panel Report on ICANN Multistakeholder Innovations
  

 Resolutions from the ccNSO meeting - Singapore 26 March 2014

 Resolution 93-01: ccNSO Membership

THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to approve .id (Indonesia) as members of the ccNSO.

 The resolution was approved unanimously.

 Resolution 93-02: IANA Transition Process

THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to appoint Byron Holland, Keith Davidson and Becky Burr as ccNSO Process Coordination Committee with respect to IANA Functions Transition Process. The purpose of this committee is to coordinate the ccNSO efforts to participate in the IANA Functions Transition Process, and coordinate the ccNSO with other efforts aimed at including the broad ccTLD community in the process. The committee may invite other members of the ccTLD community to participate in the work of the committee, if deemed necessary and appropriate.

 The resolution was approved unanimously.

 Resolution 93-03: Closure of the Joint IDN Working Group and Next Steps for Certain IDN-related Issues

THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to adopt following points regarding the JIG Working Group:

 1. The ccNSO Council believes that in view of the ongoing community work at ICANN on these issues the JIG may now be closed, and will terminate the extension of the JIG as outlined in the charter.

 2. The ccNSO Council will continue to monitor the progress of the various community-based efforts to resolve the issues raised by the JIG, and will evaluate the need for any further policy or policy related work on a periodic basis; and

 3. The ccNSO Council thanks the JIG for all its hard work in ensuring that solutions to these important issues are developed through community-based efforts.

 The resolution was approved unanimously.

 Resolution 93-04: Adoption of Charter for a Cross-Community Working Group to Develop a Framework of Operating Principles for Future Cross Community Working Groups

THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to:

 1. Adopt the Charter and appoint Becky Burr as the ccNSO Council liaison to the CWG that will develop the Final Framework;

 2. Coordinate next steps with the GNSO Council to jointly issue a call for volunteers for the CWG; and

 3. Until such time as the CWG select its co-chairs for the Working Group and those co-chairs are confirmed by the ccNSO and GNSO Councils, the ccNSO Council liaison to the CWG shall serve as the interim co-chair from the ccNSO.  

 The resolution was approved unanimously.

 Action 93-01: 

The Secretariat to call for volunteers for the Cross-Community Working Group to Develop a Framework of Operating Principles for Future Cross Community Working Groups (CWG-WG).

 Resolution 93-05: Adoption of Charter for Cross-Community Working Group to Develop a Framework for the use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs (UCTN WG)

THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to:

 1. Adopt the Charter and appoint Paul Szyndler as the Interim ccNSO Co-Chair to the Cross-Community Working Group to advice on the feasibility of a framework for the use of Country and Territory names as TLDs, and develop such a framework if deemed feasible. 

 2. Collaborate with the other SOs and ACs to issue a call for volunteers for this CWG, each in accordance with its own rules. The secretariat is requested to coordinate the call for volunteers.

 The resolution was approved unanimously.

 Action 93-02:

The Secretariat to call for volunteers to the Cross-Community Working Group to Develop a Framework for the use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs (UCTN WG).

 Resolution 93-06: Election Review Committee Final Report

THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to adopt the recommendations of its Election Review Committee:

 1. The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to look into possibilities of developing a new voting system, which allows each member to handle and update their own data and which is linked to a voting tool making it the voting much easier to handle.

 2. The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to update the ccNSO Election Guidelines with the additional wording: “ Only ccNSO Primary or Secondary Contacts, as listed in the ccNSO Database, are eligible to nominate or second a candidate” in the appropriate section.

 3. The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to update the ccNSO Election Guidelines with the additional wording: Self-Nominations or Secondments are not allowed” in the appropriate section.

 4. The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to continue its activities on awareness raising campaigns, when necessary. 

 The Council wholeheartedly thanked all members of the committee and in particular its chair Katrina Sataki, for its hard work in this area and closes the Election review Committee.

The resolution was approved unanimously.

 Chair and Vice Chair Elections

Roelof Meijer nominated Byron Holland as chair of the ccNSO.Dotty Sparks de Blanc seconded the nomination.The resolution was approved by acclamation.

 Hiro Hotta nominated Katrina Sataki as first vice-chair of the ccNSO.Lesley Cowley seconded the nomination. The resolution was approved with one abstention (Katrina Sataki).

 Young-Eum Lee nominated Keith Davidson as second vice-chair of the ccNSO. Becky Burr seconded the nomination. The resolution was approved unanimously

 Resolution 93-07: Roles and Responsibilities of Councillors

THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to adopt the assignment of tasks as proposed in the assignment of roles and responsibilities March 2014.

 The resolution was approved unanimously.

 Date of next meetings

17 April 12.00 UTC

 22 May 12.00 UTC

 25 June 16.00 local London time

 AOB

Action 93-03: 

The IANA Transfer Coordination Committee to draft a statement on behalf of the ccNSO regarding the current events around Internet Governance and circulate it to the Council prior to the next Council meeting.

 Meeting Closed

ccNSO Report to the ALAC - 27 March 2014, Singapore

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2. Unfortunately the Tuesday March 25 ALAC schedule was quite busy with important topics which kept me from the ccNSO programme, which included:Working Group updates:  FOIWG; ICANN Meeting Strategy ; Name collisions; Internet Governance Sessions:  NTIA Updates; Developments in Asia (with presentations from China, Korea and Singapore; and an interesting  multistakeholder panel on perspectives related to the globalisation  of IANA which I did attend); Meetings with external groups : ICANN Board, GAC, IANA and NomCom. 

3. On Weds March 26, I was able to attend a programme that was packed and interesting.. and included:

a) Security: Patrick's presentation was as per the ALAC version; An update on the survey related to a Contact Repository - which would deal with major DNS incidents relating to ccTLDs - would be quite expensive to run; Ryan Tan presented on how .sg is dealing with identity theft; The NZ internet Task force (NZITF) - Barry Brailey - a not-for -profit working on improving cybersecurity  - $50 membership fee - they organise workshops as well as draft guidelines and  support research - and participate in NetHui (invite to PacINET?); Result of malware mining in national domains  (a survey in Russia). Interesting bit-  Whowas? which gives information about identified malware domains.

b) ccTLD News from: Finland esp the government's proposal to develop a Information Society Code; Calzone.org which tracks  calendar information about any TLD applications from the time they are registered with ICANN;where are they sitting in the registration process?; CNNIC has become national hub of TLDs in China in the new gTLD era (Sun Xiantang). interesting bits - 18.44 million domain names in Chinese market; 10.83 million are registered with .cn; 74.17million on IPv4; CNNIC is involved in outreach - growing information about ICANN, also in internet governance research and keen to collaborate and share research findings;Growth through building a brand (.co - Crystal Peterson) 28k registrations in 2010, now 1.6m registrations; Business strategy based on creating awareness; building relationships with customers; .co membership (engaging with partners and business customers - with access to webinars, events, etc);.nz Marketing (Jay Daley):explained the strategy used to promote the .nz brand

c) Regional Organisations Updates: AFTLD - Africa internet Summit in May; planning to build an observatory for ccTLDs; and to hold a Domain Name Summit; APTLD - focus is on education, information and advocacy; also including DNSSEC deployment, justice sector engagement, security; IDNs, market development, registrar relationships; internet coordinator and training coordination. Mtg schedule; Malaysia last month; Oman - May 11-14; India - August; Pacific - Brisbane, September; Unfortunately I missed the other updates due to a meeting with my mentee, Gunela Astbrink. 

 4. ccNSO COUNCIL MEETING - 4-5pm March 26  (summary)

1. New ccTLD member introduced to ccNSO - Indonesia (.id) 
2. IANA Functions Transition Process - a draft statement will be circulated to the Council  prior to the public Forum meeting; it was moved that a Process Coordination Committee be formed consisting of Byron Holland, Keith Davidson and Becky Burr to coordinate the ccNSO efforts to participate in the IANA Functions Transition process and to coordinate the ccNSO with other efforts  aimed at including the broad ccTLD community in the process. Other members of the ccTLD community may be invited to participate in the work of the committee. (voted on and passed)
3. Closure of the Joint IDN Working Group (JIG) and Next Steps for Certain IDN-related issues. This group was chartered by the ccNSO and the GNSO Councils in 2009 to discuss issues of common interest to the two supporting organisations in relation to Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs), in particular, IDN top-level domains (TLDs). The charter was extended in 2010 after the adoption of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Implementation Plan. The JIG found three issues of common interest - single character IDN TLDS, IDN Variant TLDs and Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs. The JIG was tasked to deliver suggestions on how to deal with these issues for the Singapore meeting. The ccNSO Council decided that due to the ongoing community work at ICANN on these issues, the JIG may now be closed, but that the ccNSO Council will continue to monitor the various community-based efforts to resolve the issues raised by the JIG and evaluate the need for further policy or policy related work on a periodic basis. (voted on and passed)
4. Adoption of a charter for a Cross Community Working Group - to develop a  framework of Operating Principles for future Cross-Community Working Groups. Becky Burr was appointed as the ccNSO liaison to the CWG that will develop the final framework. Next steps may include a call for volunteers for the CWG. (voted on and passed)
5. Adoption of a charter for a Cross Community Working Group - to develop a framework for the Use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs (UCTNWG).  Following on from the ccNSO Study group on the Use of Names for Country and Territories published in Sept 2013,  a recommendation of the study group was to further review the current status of representations of coutnry and territory names, as they exist under current ICANN policies, guidelines and procedures. The ccNSO Council proposed that the WG include participants from other SOs and ACs. Paul Szyndler was appointed as Interim ccNSO co-Chair to the CWG to advise on the feasibility of a framework  and to develop such a framework if deemed feasible (voted on and passed)
6. Election Review Committee Final Report - The Secretariat is requested to look into the possibilities of developing a new voting system; to update ccNSO election guidelines relating to the nomination process;  and to continue its activities on awareness raising campaigns (voted on and passed)
7. Council Updates (Keith): Members should read through the script on NCUC's Friday meeting for some good background on the IANA topic; Meeting Strategy working group completed work; FOIWG winding up; NETMundial - ccNSO  should continue with its membership; ICANN Learn update (Hong); Regional updates (were part of today's programme); Liaison updates (none available as yet)

8.  Election of ccNSO Council Officers: Byron Holland was  re-elected as the Chair of the ccNSO Council; Vice Chairs - Katrina Sataki and Keith Davidson; Roles and Responsibilities of Councillors - the assignment of tasks were adopted; Roelof Meijer was thanked for his work on the Council. Nigel Roberts is the new Council member

9. Date of next meetings: 7 April 1200 UTC, 22 May 1200 UTC and 25 June 1600 local London time

5. Cross-Community Working Group to develop a framework for the use of Country and Territory names as TLDs. An impromptu introductory meeting was held on Thursday 8am. The purpose was to provide some background for those who may not have been involved in the original study, and to set a timeframe for the appointment of cross-community representatives to the working group, ALAC has already appointed their reps (liaisons to the ccNSO who were part of the original study group) and the gNSO say that they can get their representatives selected soon. ccNSO will have to wait until the next Council meeting to confirm its reps, so that it is assumed that the next meeting of the group will probably not take place until just before London.

ccNSO Report to the ALAC - 25 February 2014 1500UTC

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 1) Meeting of the ALAC-ccNSO Coordination WG meeting on 13 January 2014

 Attended by: Maureen H, Cheryl L-O (ALAC), Katrina, Bart, Margarita (ccNSO) Kristina (Staff)

 Decisions: . 

 *Meeting time: ALAC-ccNSO Council meeting in Singapore to take place on Monday lunchtime (12.30-2pm) - lunch will be provided

 *Agenda(these topics will be padded out before the Singapore meeting)

• Updates on any current cross-community working groups (10 mins)
• The role of ccTLDs (ccNSO) and of ALSes (ALAC) - any potential overlap and where they might be able to reinforce each other? (10 mins)
• Internet Governance issues (40 mins)

*Next meeting - few weeks before Singapore (TBC

2) Attended meeting of the FOIWG 23 January

There was a lack of a quorum to be able to discuss important agenda items including:

• a review of responses to public consultation on Revocation from the ALAC and Andrew Eggleton of the University of New Hampshire School of Law, and
• A GAC Update

We reviewed a FOIWG Terminology document

Other agenda items will be dealt with at our next meeting along with other responses that may come from the public consultation process. 

Our meeting schedule: Feb 6  03:00 UTC,   Feb 20 11:00 UTC;    Mar 6  19:00 UTC;   Mar 27 F2F at ICANN Singapore

ccNSO Report to the ALAC  - 17 December 2013 1500UTC

•  Communicated a brief report to ccNSO following ALT meeting
• Received response from ccNSO rep- Katrina Sataki.  An ALAC-ccNSO organising committee meeting is planned forJanuary to organise joint March meeting and some ideas for collaboration (Other ccNSO members are: Margarita Valdes and Bart Boswinkel)
• ACTION for ALAC: One or two other volunteers from ALAC are required to join this ALAC-ccNSO organising committee 
• Cheryl will maintain contact with ccNSO activities - I would gratefully appreciate her support and guidance as I establish myself within this role
• .ck (Cook Islands) has recently applied for ccNSO membership 
• I have not attended/been invited (yet) to any other ccNSO  meetings since BA 
• Apologies for the long notes below, but I have kept a comprehensive initial record of contexts and points of focus for ccNSO until I become better acquainted with their processes. 

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NEW Maureen Hilyard appointed as the ALAC's Liaison to the ccNSO for 2013-2014 at ICANN 48 Buenos Aires!

November 20, 2013. ccNSO Council Meeting

 1) Apologies  (MH was introduced to the Council members) 

2) Minutes and Actions

Action 88-01: Gabriella Schittek to send a note to the Council with the link to the Council meeting preparation material on the ccNSO website. Completed 

Action 88-02: The Secretariat to arrange for the Study Group on Use of Names for Countries and Territories resolutions to be adopted on the Council email list.  Completed 

Action 88-03: The Secretariat to arrange for the resolution on appointing the volunteers for the joint ALAC/ccNSO meeting to be adopted on the Council email list. Completed

Action 88-04: Hong Xue to send the Chair a copy of the ICANN Academy curriculum for the leadership training in Buenos Aires. Completed

 Action 88-05: Bart Boswinkel to follow up on the progress of the ccNSO statements on IANA delegation and redelegation of ccTLDs and on the Geographic Regions Working Group report. Overtaken by time

 3) Updates

 3.1    Chair Update - Byron attended the Bali IGF - mentioned the Montevideo statement and the SO/AC mtg

 3.2    Vice-chair Update - Keith attended the Australian IGF, then Bali - same involvement as Byron. ISOC Board activities includes a meeting with ICANN Board re harmonisation of activities.

 3.3    Councilors Update  (http://ccnso.icann.org/council-members.htm for councilor names)

 3.4    Regional Organizations Update (LACTLD, AFTLD, APTLD - Don Hollander - new manager)

 3.5    Staff Update

 4) Membership applications

 Background

 The ccNSO received an application for ccNSO membership from .vn, the ccTLD of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The application has been filed by Hoang Minh Cuong, representing the cc's manager, the Ministry of Information and Communications of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. There are no outstanding issues with .vn.

 The ccNSO received an application for ccNSO membership from .ee, the ccTLD of Estonia. The application has been filed by Heiki Sibul, representing the cc's manager, Eesti Interneti SA EIS. There are no outstanding issues with .ee.

 Draft resolution

 The ccNSO Council approves the application of both .vn and .ee and welcomes both .vn and .ee as members 143 and 144 respectively. (passed)

 5) Final Report joint ccNSO-GNSO IDN Working group

 Background (presented by Young Eum)

 The JIG (Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN Working Group) was formed by mutual charters between the ccNSO and GNSO councils, and extended (ccNSO: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/minutes-council-23aug11-en.pdf | GNSO: http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#201107) to complete its work on the 3 identified issues of common interest between the ccNSO and GNSO.

 One of those issues concerns Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs. The JIG published its Draft Final Report on Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs for public comment which closed on 16 August 2013, http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/idn-tld-acceptance-final-25jun13-en.htm). The JIG reviewed the comments received and finalized its report accordingly. The JIG submitted its Final Report to the GNSO Council on 17 November, http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-18nov13-en.htm.

 Draft resolution: (passed)

 The ccNSO Council adopts the JIG Final Report on Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs and its recommendations and will submit it to the ICANN Board for its consideration.

 The ccNSO Council thanks the JIG for its work, with special thanks to Jothan Frakes for his contributions in proactively reaching beyond the ICANN community to address issues identified in the report.

 The ccNSO Council recognizes that further work needs to be done in relation to IDNs, in particular IDN variants and universal acceptance of IDNs and asks the JIG to put forward suggestions on how to deal with these issues and deliver these suggestions to the ccNSO Council by the ICANN Singapore Meetings in March 2014.

 The ccNSO Council requests its chair to inform the chair of the GNSO of the decision of the ccNSO, and the co-chairs of the JIG accordingly, and submit the report to the Board of Directors of ICANN together with the chair of the GNSO, when the report of the JIG is adopted by the GNSO.

 6) Final Report joint DNS stability and security analysis working group

 Background (presented by Byron)

 The joint DNS Security and Stability Analysis working group was established by the participating Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees ALAC, ccNSO, GNSO and NRO to better understand the security and stability of the global domain name system (DNS) in 2011.

 In October 2011 the ICANN Board of Directors established the Board DNS Risk Management Framework Working Group (DNS RMF WG), with the objective to oversee the development of a risk management framework and system for the DNS as it pertains to ICANN's role as defined in the ICANN Bylaws.

 At the time the DSSA published its draft Report Phase 1 (August 2012), the DSSA went into hibernation to avoid overlap with the work of the Board DNS RMF and noted and informed the participating SO’s and AC’s that in order to reflect the changed environment and working method, the charter of the DSSA would need to be updated to reflect these changes.

 The co-chairs of the DSSA WG have send a letter to the chairs of each of the participating stakeholder organizations to submit the Final Report and the work products contained in it (available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/dssa-final-08nov13-en.pdf) .  The DSSA recommends the acceptance of the Final Report and further recommends that the Final Report be disseminated to the ccTLD’s for their consideration. 

 Upon adoption of the Final report of the DSSA, and notification of adoption to the co-chairs of the DSSA, the working group will be closed.

 Draft resolution (passed)

 The ccNSO Council adopts the Report submitted by the co-chairs of the DSSA WG, as the Final Report of the DSSA WG in accordance with section 2.4 of its charter.

 The chair of the ccNSO is requested to inform the co-chairs of the DSSA WG of adoption of the Report by the ccNSO Council.

 The chair of ccNSO is also requested to inform the chairs of the other participating SO’s and Ac’s (ALAC, GNSO and NRO).

 Finally, the ccNSO Council thanks and congratulates all, and in particular the co-chairs of the WG: Olivier Crepin-LeBlond ( ALAC), Joerg Schweiger (.DE, ccNSO), Mikey O’ Connor (GNSO), James Galvin ( SSAC) and Mark Koster (NRO) and all volunteers and staff who helped with this effort.

 7) Final Report Finance working group

 Background (Byron heads this group - they've held  13 working meetings plus ICANNmeetings - robust discussion right to the end to achieve best available solution. The have posted the final report with a resolution. Byron acknowledged the work of the WG)

 The ccNSO Finance WG was established in October 2010 with a mandate that included:

 “a. to discuss with ICANN (i.) the amounts attributed to ccTLDs and (ii) the underlying attribution method(s) to attempt to establish which of those amounts and method(s) are reasonable and may be acceptable to the ccTLD community

 b. to discuss with ICANN a methodology for individual ccTLDs to use to calculate a fair and equitable voluntary financial contribution to ICANN and propose such a methodology to the ccTLD community 

 After a long and intense consultation process of the community the WG and others the WG, finalized its report during the ccNSO meeting in Buenos Aires meeting (November 2013).

 The chair of the Finance WG submitted the Final Report of the WG to the Council recommending that the ccNSO Council adopts the proposed Guideline to replace the March 2007 Guideline on Financial contributions. (http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-09mar07.htm)

 The chair of the ccNSO received a letter from ICANN’s CEO and President expressing his support for the emerging outcome of the discussion on the financial contribution from the ccTLD community to ICANN, and his acceptance of the “ value exchange model” and the associated overall level of the financial contribution and the voluntary nature of the contributions(http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-20nov13-en.htm ).

 Draft Resolution

  The ccNSO Council notes and welcomes the exemplary, long and intensive consultation efforts and process the Finance WG went through, to gather input and feed-back from the community.

  The ccNSO Council notes and welcomes the letter from ICANN’s CEO and President on the overall level of the financial contribution and the voluntary nature of the contributions.

  The ccNSO Council adopts the proposed November 2013 Guideline for Voluntary Contributions of ccTLDs to ICANN, and request the chair of the ccNSO to inform the CEO and President of ICANN accordingly, once the Guideline becomes effective.

  The ccNSO Council requests staff to publish this resolution as soon as possible after closure this ccNSO Council meeting.

In accordance to the rules of the ccNSO (http://ccnso.icann.org/about/ccnso-rules-dec04-en.pdf) , the November 2013 Guideline will become effective seven days after publication of the decision by the Council.

 Finally, the ccNSO Council wholeheartedly thanks and congratulates all who participated in the process and in particular the chair of the Finance WG (Byron Holland, .CA) and the members of the Finance WG, and Xavier Calvez (CFO ICANN) and other staff, and all members of the community who were involved in this long and sometimes challenging effort.

 9) Next steps to identify potential issues and propose next steps pertaining to cross-community capacity building

For discussion: Follow-up action needed? (This flows out of conversations in Durban and relates to any potential interest to share information about capacity building. The ICANN Academy Group is already cross-community / cross-regional?)

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• 1Net
• Brazil Conference
• Panel on Internet Governance

 11) Working Group and Other Updates

 11.1    Meetings Program WG (Katrina) - a positive change has already been made by this group to put the names and pictures of the people on the panels during this meeting - very helpful for newbies . Katrina has tried advertising to invite people to come to meetings. An invitation is being sent out re a post meeting survey. Google calendar has been developed. 

 11.2    Incident Response Repository WG (Bart) a survey has gone out about the topics, for guidance re IRR

 11.3    Election review Council committee (Katrina)

 11.4    Quorum Study Group (Katrina)

 Other updates:

 ICANN Outreach Program (Sokol)

 ICANN Academy (Hong Xue)

 Progress ccNSO Statements

 Progress other WG’s has extensively been discussed during the meeting

 12) Council Election update

 Elected:

 Victor Abboud, .ec (LAC region)

 Hiro Hotta, .jp (AP region)

 Dotty Sparks de Blanc, .vi (NA region)

 Election needed in:

 African & European region

  Appointment will be formalized once the election in the African and European region have been completed and the Election Manager has submitted the Election report for adoption by the Council

  13) Board selection Seat 11 update

 Chris Disspain, CEO of AUDA has been nominated and seconded. There are no other nominees. The Election Manager will provide a report of the nomination process prior to the next meeting. The Council will be requested to select the Board member at that time.

  14) Update Work Plan

 An updated workplan, based on the outcome of the Buenos Aires meeting will be send to the Council 29 November 2013

 15) Liaison Updates

 15.1    GNSO Liaison (Patrick Myers)

 15.2    ALAC Liaison (Ron Sherwood)

  16) Date of Next Meetings

 10 December 2013, 12.00 UTC

 The schedule for the meetings in 2014, will be proposed before the next meeting

 Working group reports

a) FOIWG - Keith Davidson - Followup will be the glossary 

 Topics for interpretation

•  Consent - for delegation and redelegation requests ( final report complete)
•  Significantly interested parties (SIP) public consultation completed
•  Revocation - is currently with public consultation process
• Comprehensive gloassary (in progress)
• Recommendations for IANA reports on del and redel (the WG will begin this work after completing the FOI)

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Published progress report on activities - met on teleconferences 5 x

Details on Revocation

 RFC 1591 identifies three mechanism available to the IANA operation: delegation, transfer and revocation

 Under RFC1591, a transfer requires the consent of the incumbent ccTLD manager

 Revocation refers to the process by which the IANA operator rescinds  responsibility for management of a  cctLD from a manager.

 If a manager does not consent to a proposed Transfer, the only mechanism available to the IANA Operator is to deal with the situation is revocation. 

Revocation does not mean the removal of the ccTLD from the root - the issue is with the management of the ccTLD

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• Cross community working group - to look further into the study
• WG will provide advice of a uniform definition of the framework for all respective SOs or Acs..
• The WG will provide detailed advice as to what the content will be

November 20, 2013. Country reports

 Recent Developments of Governmental Movements in Japan – TBC 

The Japanese government recently decided to set up an expert committee to create a mechanism for oversight of the management of DNS, including the registry operation, in Japan. The presentation will brief its background and how such mechanism is expected to be. 

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The Co-funded Marketing Programme has been available to .eu accredited registrars since 28 April 2009. The first evaluation of the Programme took place in mid-2010, upon request of the European Commission. However, at that stage, only a limited number of campaigns had been carried out under the scheme and it was difficult, therefore, to properly assess the value of the Programme for .eu accredited registrars and its impact on .eu registration volumes and awareness of the domain. Over the course of 2010 and 2011, the Programme has taken off considerably. An overview of the campaigns conducted shows that the number of proposals submitted has risen steadily since 2009 to reach 90 proposals so far in 2013. Under the Co-funded Marketing Programme, EURid contributes to the costs of a registrar¹s .eu marketing campaign that meets specific conditions. The Programme has been recently awarded the CENTR Awards for Marketing and Communication.

November 19, 2013, Buenos Aires - ALAC/ccNSO meeting (meeting started late)

 1.Exploration and Discussion of opportunities for developing mutual interests and cooperation between ccNSO and the ALAC / At-Large Community.

• Mapping of ALSes (as local Internet Communities in ccTLD operator's countries and Regions); opportunity to develop and update  previous work carried out in 2009/10. (Action item)
• Opportunities and mechanisms to encourage local engagement and interactions.

• Identification of mutual interests and involvement in policy and governance issues ; locally, Regionally (including Sub - Regionally); Globally.

2. Identification and Discussion of Interactions and Expectations of Liaisons and Work/Study Group contributions (including relevant Public Comments) between ALAC and ccNSO  

• Communications between Chairs, Leaders/Executive, Council/Committee, ccNSO/At-Large. 

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Current ccNSO Activities; Call for Comment; etc., recommended for ALAC, RALO and/or ALS input, contribution or focus upon:

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NOTICE: the ccNSO Council has now started publishing the Council call preparation materials online as well. You can find them at http://ccnso.icann.org/about/councilminutes.htm

Current ccNSO Council Call - November 2013

(note now only CURRENT month Minutes etc., will be archived here and replaced with each subsequent meeting)

ALL OTHER Agendas, Minutes, Transcripts  and recording of all other ccNSO Council Meetings  can be found within the  ccNSO Master Calendar  HERE

Next ccNSO Council  meeting  will be on Wednesday November 20th at 1900 UTC (1600hrs local time) during the ICANN Buenios Aires Meeting, Room: La Pampa

Agenda ccNSO Council Meeting  -  20 November 2013     The agenda will be posted at http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar

Proposed agenda and participation details will be listed below when available...

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ccNSO Council Activity Summaries.

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ccNSO Activity Summaries:- September 2013

IDN ccPDP

• Board Report on IDN ccPDP: https://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-26sep13-en.htm

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• Board Report on IDN ccPDP: https://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-26sep13-en.htm
• ccNSO Council Minutes 10 September 2013: https://ccnso.icann.org/node/41827
• Jordi Iparraguirre selected as NomCom replacement of Mary Wong:  http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-04sep13-en.htm 
• Celia Friedman selected as NomCom appointee 2013 – 2016: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-02sep13-en.htm

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• .me (Montenegro) joins as ccNSO Member nr 139: https://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-13sep13-en.htm

Various Announcements

• ICANN Fellowship Programme opens for Singapore applications: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-20sep13-en.htm
• September Update from ICANN’s Policy Department: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/update/update-sep13-en.htm
• Consultation on Instructions and Source of Policy for Delegation and Redelegation of gTLDs: http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/gtld-drd-ui-policy-10sep13-en.htm
• Two-Panel String Similarity Review Process implemented in IDN ccTLD Fast Track: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-09sep13-en.htm
• (CLOSED) Consultation on User Instructions and Source of Policy for the Delegation and Redelegation of ccTLDs: http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/cctld-drd-ui-policy-09sep13-en.htm
• Revised report of the public comments received to FY14 Draft Operating Plan & Budget: http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/report-comments-op-budget-fy14-30aug13-en.pdf

• NomCom announces ICANN leadership selections 2013: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-02sep13-en.htm

Open ccNSO Related Public Comment Periods

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(OPEN until 26 July 2013) Joint ccNSO-GNSO IDN working Group (JIG) Sraft Final Report on Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-25jun13-en.htm

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May 2013

IDN ccPDP Voting Period

• Recording of Webinar on IDN ccPDP Voting: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/p9b0ox2ifdb/ and http://icann.adobeconnect.com/p9q9eux8m27/  
• IDN ccPDP Members Report: http://ccnso.icann.org/node/38473

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Input Requested on Implementation of Recommendations from the Report on User Experience Implications of Active Variant TLDs:http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds/active-ux-21mar13-en.pdf (contact ccNSO Secretariat for more information)

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April 2013

Beijing Meeting

ICANN Beijing Meetings page: http://beijing46.icann.org/

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• (OPEN until 21 April 2013): Fiscal Year 2014 Draft Community Member ICANN Travel Support Guidelines: http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/travel-support-07mar13-en.htm
• (OPEN until 20 April 2013) ICANN Security, Stability and Resiliency Framework for FY 2014:  http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-06mar13-en.htm
• (OPEN until 12 April 2013) IANA Public consultation period DNSSEC Key Management: http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/root-zone-consultation-08mar13-en.htm

February 2013

Working Groups

All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during February 2013 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar

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(OPEN until 3 March 2013)  ICANN Meeting Strategy Working Group: http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/participation/mswg/call-for-volunteers-11feb13-en.htm

January 2013

Working Groups

All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during January 2013 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Notes, minutes and transcripts from Working Group Meetings throughout January 2013 may be missing in this summary, due to the timing of their delivery.

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ALAC Whitepaper on "Making ICANN Relevant, Responsive and Respected": http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/at-large-r3-white-paper-20nov12

November 2012

Working Groups

All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during November 2012 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar

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ICANN press release on IGF Azerbaijan: http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-01nov12-en.pdf

October 2012

Working Groups

All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during October 2012 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar

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ICANN Consolidated Meeting Strategy Proposal: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-02oct12-en.htm

September 2012 

Working Groups

All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during September 2012 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar

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• ccNSO Opens Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/ccNSO
• Invitation to attend eCrime 2012 22-25 October 2012: http://apwg.org/ecrime2012.html
• ASEP publishes project plan: http://www.icann.org/en/news/infocus/accountability/asep/project-plan-24sep12-en.pdf. 
• ATRT paper on community consultation: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-4-24sep12-en.htm
• Documents on Status of RAA Negotiations: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-5-24sep12-en.htm
• Webinar on Uniform Rapid Suspension to be held 3 October 2012: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-6-24sep12-en.htm
•  ICANN 2013 - 2016 Draft Strategic Plan published for public comments: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-9-24sep12-en.htm
• September Update from ICANN's Policy Department: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/update/update-sep12-en.htm
• ICANN's Fellowship Programme opens For Applications for Beijing Meeting: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-19sep12-en.htm
• Fadi Chehadé  Officially Assums Position of ICANN President and CEO: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-14sep12-en.htm
• ICANN Meeting July 2013 to be held in Durban, South Africa: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-10sep12-en.htm
• ICANN Policy Department Pre-Toronto Webinar 4 October2012: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-07sep12-en.htm
• Draft Agenda ccNSO Meeting, Toronto: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/toronto/agenda.htm

August 2012

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Surveys (OPEN until 4 June 2012) Survey on ccNSO Wiki: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22FQ2SU6ZPJ

April 2012

Working Groups

All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during April 2012 are available at:http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar

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ICANN Policy Department Update January 2012: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/policy/update-jan12-en.htm
ICANN Framework FY 13 Budget: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-17jan12-en.htm
ICANN Starts Accepting New gTLD Applications and Posts New Applicant Guidebook: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-11jan12-en.htm
Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN (JIG) Working Group Initial Report on Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs.http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-06jan12-en.htm
ICANN’s Fellowship Programme opens application round for Prague meeting 24 – 29 June 2012:
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-06jan12-en.htm

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Specific information on ALSes and ccNSO members bridging both worlds.

The list below is build upon the actual list of accredited ALSes and the relation to the region and country.
In the last column you will find, if the ccTLD is a member of ccNSO, the ccTLD extension of the country code and a direct link to the website of that specific ccTLD.

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New members since Seoul 2009 till September 2010 :

AFRICA :

ASIA PASIFIC

EUROPE

LATIN AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Agenda's and minutes of previous ccNSO meetings.

Former liaison reports.

ccNSO Liaison reports 2011

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