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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.

July 2016 ccNSO Update

*The ccNSO is only just now seeking nominations for their FY17 Nom Com member. Candidates need not be Council members and can self-nominate as long as they are ccTLD managers (but if they are Councillors and self-nominate, they can't vote). The nominations close on the 29th July so that the Council can vote and the successful candidate be available for the meeting in Hyderabad.

*The ccNSO is also seeking EOIs for representatives on the Customer Standing Committee. Bart has sent friendly reminders to prod volunteers to apply. Their election process will involve: 

Administrative Procedure (from Bart)
After you send me the email with your list of candidates in order of preference, I will acknowledge receipt of your email and include a ballot number and date of receipt.
On 20 July 2016 (after 17.00 UTC)  I will then circulate a list in the following format: 
-         Ballot number,
-         Date ballot was received,
-         candidates voted for and level of preference (5,4, 3 etc.).
This email will also include the total level of preference per candidate. As agreed by Council resolution the two candidate receiving most supportive votes, will be selected.
This list will also be included in a report of the selection process. 

June 2016 ccNSO Update

•  UPDATES FROM HELSINKI

 *Member engagement: Travel funding applications for ICANN 57 in Hyderabad are open and their request for applications highlighted a difference between our organisations. ccNSO use their travel funding to reward engagement. (They get their funds from their members so that there is a real expectation of mutual benefit). The ALAC does not have any such fund which can similarly reward ALS members who are not currently in a funded position yet put in a lot of effort into the work of At-Large. In the ccNSO, an important criteria for travel is active engagement in the work of the ccNSO which could include active participation in a ccNSO working group, a presentation at the ccNSO member meeting, or other engagements that strengthen the activities of the ccNSO. Perhaps when we are looking at ways to encourage engagement with our ALSes we too could seek a similar fund to get hardworking ALS members to ICANN meetings.

 *Customer Standing Committee: At the Council meeting, the ccNSO Council has launched a call for expressions of interest for its membership of the CSC. The ccNSO has a Guideline Review Committee (GRC) which develops internal procedures, for example, guidelines for the membership and expectations of working groups. There is one already specifically for the CSC (http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/guidelines-ccnso-csc-16jun16-en.pdf), so that the call for applicants is a procedural formality. There is some consideration being given for the GRC to broaden its mandate to include some internal procedures related to the new ICANN bylaws which will require the implementation of new processes and procedures. By having these guidelines in place, any subsequent requests for membership of both internal and external committees are dealt with much more smoothly, so that the discussions that they had within the council meeting really just sorted out some of the details. Similarly for another recent request for a member of the Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC).

 The ALAC does not such have formal guidelines and , but to my mind these would have prevented the disorganized session we had in trying to formalize a guideline for ourselves. There is also still an issue about active and not so active working groups that still needs to be resolved.  A proper ALAC procedural working group to sort these issues out, outside of the time allocated for other important face to face session discussions, would improve what should be normal procedural processes.

 Follow-on to the CSC: ccNSO have been notified of the Registries Steering Group *RySG) and their 4 nominations (for 2 members and 2 alternates). These are:

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