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 On 22 September 2015, the ALAC re-appointed Maureen Hilyard to serve as the ALAC Liaison to the ccNSO. This term will be from the end of the ICANN 54 Meeting in October 2015 through the end of the 2016 AGM. Maureen Hilyard has served as the  ALAC Liaison to the ccNSO since 2013.

June 2016 ccNSO Update

• At-Large Capacity Building Webinar: Bart Boswinkel made a Capacity-Building Webinar presentation to the At-Large Community about the "Impact of the IANA Stewardship Transition on the Delegation, Revocation and Transfer of ccTLDs". There were 23 non-staff participants. The presentation was well received with some interesting queries from participants about the end-user perspective of any impacts. Bart clarified that enduser impacts must be dealt with a the local level.
  
  
• Customer Standing Committee: Current discussions within the ccNSO are focusing on the selection of the ccNSO candidates for the Customer Standing Committee (CSC) following the approval by the ICANN Board of the new ICANN Bylaws for the IANA Stewardship Transition, effective upon the expiration of the IANA Functions Contract between ICANN and NTIA. Article 17 of the new Bylaws calls for the creation of the CSC to monitor the performance of the Post Transition IANA entity (PTI)  which will perform the IANA Functions relevant to the ccTLDs post transition (see: https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/43-csc-scope-and-responsibilities-v-v2). The ccNSO is required to appoint two members to represent ccTLD registry operators who may not not necessarily be members of the ccNSO. The appointment is required by 22 July 2016. This creates a very tight timeframe for the ccNSO which is currently in the process of creating new guidelines for this selection process. The Council hopes to adopt these new guidelines at its 16 June meeting and to make a formal call for EOIs around 30 June so that they can meet the appointment deadline by 22 July. A set of requirements for interested potential candidates has been provided to initiate some preparation for applications from the community. It was pointed out that no travel funding would be provided for members of this committee.
  
  
• ccNSO Accountability: The ccNSO Council will be sending out an Accountability survey to Councillors based on basic concepts derived from the outcomes of the CCWG Accountability. The aim of the survey is to improve ccNSO accountability in relation to transparency, consultation, review and redress. The survey has initially been distributed to Councillors for any amendments or other inputs. The aim is to launch the survey at Helsinki.
  
  
• The next ccNSO Board meeting: 16 June
  
  

   

May 2016 ccNSO Update

At the Council meeting of 14 May the following resolutions were passed as action items from the meeting of 14 April.  The  They included the need: 

1. to adopt the ccNSO 2016-2018 Work Plan and schedule and to request the secretariat to update the work plan monthly and in accordance with the ccNSO Work Plan.
   
   

2. for openness and transparency of face-to face meetings. The Background to this discussion was as follows:  Transparency requires that, ICANN¹s constituent bodies operate in an open and transparent manner. This does not only imply that recordings, transcripts of meetings, if made, and notes and minutes are made publicly available after meetings, but also that face-to-face meetings are open to observers, and will be listed as such. However, some matters do justify confidentiality and excluding the public, such as (example list): Employment matters; Discussion on persons; Contractual matters; Any proceedings of the Ombudsman; Consideration of any legal advice that would involve a risk of waiver of privilege if the meeting were not closed; any item where there has been a request to deal with it in confidence and where that request is granted. Further, it is self-evident that for meetings of Council, WGs, Committees, only appointed members or others, listed as liaisons or other form of formal participant may actively contribute, but the presumption has to be, that all meetings, including Council prep, WG meetings, have to be open to observers i.e. to people who want to listen to and watch the proceedings of the meeting in real time, without participating.

   Draft Resolution proposed to the Council: 

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• The Proposed Draft ICANN Bylaws, dated 20 April 2016 ("Proposed Draft Bylaws").  In response to the lawyers Holly J. Gregory and Rosemary E. Fei, stating:  "We believe that the Proposed Draft Bylaws are consistent with the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (“CCWG-Accountability”) Supplemental Final Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations (23 February 2016) relating to the IANA Stewardship Transition.  Accordingly, we recommend that the Proposed Draft Bylaws be posted to the community for review." Stephen Deerhake stated that " Of immediate interest to us are Article 10 ("Country-code Names Supporting Organization"), Annex B ("CCNSO Policy-development process"), and Annex C ("The Scope of the ccNSO").  Additionally, we will have to at a minimum also review Articles 18 and 19 ("IANA naming function and review" and "IANA naming function separation process"), as well as Article 12 ("Advisory Committees"). At the end of the day, we have a lot of reading ahead of us, as in my opinion at the very least we owe our Community a close and comprehensive scrutiny of the entire document during a proper review period. Lastly, I wish to express my sincere appreciation for all the incredible work that our CCWG members (and rapporteur) did to get us to this day, and most especially, a big thank you to Becky who has done so much, over so many years, to get us to this moment".   Stephen also provided the link to the IAB comments on the Draft New ICANN Bylaws

   

• The ccNSO Council have updated their Council member details on their  ccNSO Council member page as well as on their icann-community wiki space. 
  
  
• Alejandra Reynoso is the Person In Charge of ICANN Meetings Programme Committee.The ccNSO programme proposes to cover the following sessions:
  • 1. Marketing: use of social networks, partnership with registrars, marketing strategies, customer surveys, campaigns, added customer services, advertising, promotions, etc. 
    2. Legal: changes of policies, court cases, lawsuits, adaptations to new national laws, etc.
    3. ccTLD news: any new development, ccTLD activities, your way of managing your ccTLD, any experience worth sharing (what worked and what didn't work), etc.
    Unfortunately there is no interpretation services during the meeting, therefore the presentations will be in English.

• Joke Braeken has published the draft agenda for the ccNSO Members Days, to be held on Tuesday June 28 and Wednesday June 29;in Helsinki and the ccNSO schedule for ICANN56 here: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/helsinki56/agenda.htm The evaluation from the previous ccNSO Members meeting held in Marrakech can be consulted here: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/marrakech55/evaluation.htm 

• The ccNSO Activity Summary has been published.

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