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Maureen Hilyard is the ccNSO Liaison for 2013-2015.

JUNE 2015 ccNSO Report

Meetings in Buenos Aires

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ccNSO COUNCIL MEETING (BUENOS AIRES): Resolutions passed.

• Resolution on the Final Proposal of the Cross Community Working Group on Naming-Related Functions (CWG-Stewardship)
  • The ccNSO Council notes and welcomes the exemplary, long and intensive consultation efforts and process the CWG-Stewardship went through to gather input and feed-back from the community and wholeheartedly thanks all members and participants of the CWG-Stewardship for all its hard work.

• •  Taking into account the outreach, engagement and consultation efforts of the CWG-Stewardship, the outreach and engagement efforts of the ccNSO appointed members on the CWG-Stewardship, and the ccNSO and Regional ccTLD Organizations, and taking into account the extensive consultation of the ccTLD community present in Singapore and Buenos Aires, the ccNSO Council is in a position to take a decision on whether it supports the submission of the CWG-Stewardship Proposals to the ICG.

• • The ccNSO Council notes the unanimous support for the CWG-Stewardship Proposal by the ccTLD community present at the sessions on the topic at the Buenos Aires joint meetings of the ccNSO and Regional Organizations.
    
    
  • Taking into account the unanimous support by the ccTLDs present for CWG-Stewardship Proposal, the ccNSO Council supports that the CWG-Stewardship submits its Final Proposal to the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group.

• • The ccNSO Council support is based on the assumption that the CWG-Stewardship Final Proposal is conditional upon the implementation of ICANN-level accountability mechanisms substantially in the form listed in the Final Proposal section 106, and which are part of the ICANN-level accountability mechanisms (Work Stream 1) being developed by the CCWG-Accountability and moreover that: 

1. 1. These mechanisms will need to be supported by the ccNSO and;
   2. Approved by the ICANN Board and;
   3. All required bylaws amendments will need to be adopted before the transition and;
   4. All other required implementation be completed before the transition or, if not implemented beforehand, that there will be irrevocable commitments of such implementation to be complete within a reasonable time period after the transition, not to exceed one year.

• • Following the submission of the Final Report of the CCWG-Accountability on Work Stream 1 and subsequent ccNSO consideration of the proposals of the CCWG-Accountability, the ccNSO Council will communicate the results of these deliberations to the ICG, ICANN Board and NTIA, as necessary, to confirm whether or not the conditionality requirements as set out in the CWG-Stewardship Final Proposal have been met from a ccNSO perspective.

• • The ccNSO Council recommends that the CWG-Stewardship only be formally closed upon submission, by the ICANN Board, of the final transition proposal to the NTIA, thus allowing the CWG-Stewardship to provide input to the ICG and/or ccNSO should any questions or issues arise before that time.

• • The ccNSO Council requests the secretariat to publish this resolution as soon as possible after the closure of this ccNSO Council meeting. In accordance to the rules of the ccNSO (http://ccnso.icann.org/about/ccnso-rules-dec04-en.pdf), the decisions in this resolution will become effective seven days after publication of these decisions by the Council. For the interim, the chair of the ccNSO is requested to inform the co-chairs of the CWG-Stewardship of decisions of the ccNSO Council under the assumption the decision is effective and subsequently, after seven (7) days, whether the decision has become effective

• Approval of .BN application

  • The ccNSO Council approves the application of the ccTLD manager of .bn and welcomes Brunei Darussalam Network Information Centre Sdn Bhd, the ccTLD manager for .bn (Brunei) as 156th member of the ccNSO.

• Appointment of FOI advisory team
  • Taking into account and under the assumption that the ICANN Board will task ICANN staff to start the implementation of the Framework of Interpretation (FOI), and anticipating that he ccNSO Council will be requested to appoint a small advisory team of experts to assist ICANN staff, the ccNSO Council appoints the former chairs and vice-chair of the FOIWG, Keith Davidson and Becky Burr, as the ccNSO FOI implementation advisory team. In this capacity they are requested to regularly update Council and the broader community on progress made with respect to the implementation of the FOI. The secretariat is requested to inform relevant ICANN staff of this appointment.
• Retirement Interaction Strategic and Operational Plan Guideline.
  • At the suggestion of the Guideline Review Committee (GRC) and taking into account that during the update by GRC to the community present there were no objections, the ccNSO Council retires the ccNSO Guideline Interaction Strategic and Operating Plan, 5 November 2008, and request the secretariat to archive the Guideline as retired on the ccNSO website.
• Additional Volunteers GRC.
  
  • The ccNSO secretariat is requested to send out a call for volunteers to the community as soon as possible to seek additional volunteers
  • Appointment ccNSO members CCWG Use of Names of Country and territory names as TLDs.
  • Sanna Sahlman, .fi 
  • Monica Capparelli, .ar 
  • Lucila abate, .ar.  
  • The ccNSO Council appoints the following persons as ccNSO members of the cross-community working group on use of country and territory names as TLDs:
• SECIR (Secure Email Communication for ccTLD Incident Response)
  • Taking into account the advice of the SECIR working group to ensure continuation of oversight and guidance of the secretariat in maintaining and enhancing the SECIR email list of contact details, the ccNSO Council requests the SECIR WG to draft a charter for such an oversight and guidance committee. The SECIR WG is also requested to submit the draft charter at the same time it submits its final report and perform the oversight and guidance role until the envisioned SECIR oversight and guidance committee has been appointed.
• Additional Call for volunteers SOP WG
  

  1. The ccNSO Council thanks Peter Van Roste (CENTR) and Dina Beer (formerly with the .IL registry, for their hard working and contribution to the success of the SOPWG.

  2. The ccNSO request the secretariat to send out a call for volunteers who have developed an expertise in Strategy and Operating Plans as well as budgetary matters and can commit to work at least six days on a yearly basis

• Next meetings

- 20 August 2015, 12.00 UTC (conference call)

- 24 September 2015, 12.00 UTC (conference call)

- 21 October 2015, 16.00 UTC (in person, Dublin ICANN meeting)

Members Days (Tuesday & Weds) - ICANN updates including IANA Stewardship and ICANN Accountability (CWG and CCWG activities and perspectives), New Meeting Strategy, etc 

• Documents, etc available at http://ccnso.icann.org//meetings/buenos-aires53/agenda.htm 
• Presentations by speakers available at http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/buenos-aires53/presentations.htm 
• Currently only audios of ccNSO meetings available at http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/buenos-aires53/transcripts.htm).

Technical Day (Monday) included .ke explaining a DNSSEC crash,mistakes and lessons learned plus offers of support and assistance from other members to anyone with similar difficulties. 

• Currently only audio of sessions on Technical Day available at http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/buenos-aires53/workshop.htm)

ccNSO/ALAC meeting (Sunday) - not as animated as normal (perhaps 4.45pm not a good time after ALAC's no-break programme since 8am). Thanks to Byron and his team for explaining their decision-making process and outreach activities. 

NB:  ccNSO meetings attended as ALAC involvements allowed. 

ccNSO Activity Summary for May 2015

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*Council meeting - 21 May - The minutes of last month's meeting (23 April)

Updates given on Internet Governance WG (Young Eum Lee), CWG (Lise - written) and CCWG (Mathieu).

• CCWG-IG - it was noted that the CCWG-IG does not have the mandate from the groups they represent to agree on a certain position regarding Netmundial. This will be discussed at the Buenos Aires meeting
• CWG Stewardship - Bart noted that of the 49 submissions, 14 came from ccTLDs.
• CCWG - Mathieu noted appreciation of the Council Chair's letter regarding broad consensus issue. Co-Chairs would like input from ccTLD community - interactive webinars possible option

The decision-making process on the CWG and CCWG proposals does not fit the ccNSO model of decision-making - a PDP is to attempt to find a solution "in the near future" (this wording was debated -  Bart and Keith to work on wording that better reflects the reality of the time required to undertake a PDP )

A resolution was unanimously passed that ALL ccNSO Council members will also be on the ccNSO Members email list - this was a major discussion topic on the Council list!

SECIR report - membership now 148 (from 131 a week ago).

ccNSO-Board topics for BA: 

• Update FOI & potential discussion open issues (see also Substantive issues and proposal Keith on letter to CWG and CCWG and future PDPs)

ccNSO/ccTLD community specific issues with timeline, CWG and CCWG proposals

• SOPWG submission and questions re draft FY 16 Ops Plan and Budget

Rumour raised by Ron that there may be a change of date and time for the ccNSO-ALAC joint meeting in BA? Gisella to confirm.

*ccNSO Workplan for the month of May 2015 (Bart to discuss at the Council meeting - contains ccNSO member activities and involvements eg working groups)

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This group includes non-members as well as members of ccNSO .. as a consequence, their subscription list has risen from 97 last month to 131. Information links for TLD-OPS: http://ccnso.icann.org/resources/tld-ops-secure-communication.htm and for  SECIR: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/secir.htm

APRIL 2015 ccNSO Report

With the Buenos Aires meeting looming, we need to work on an agenda for our joint meeting proposed for Tuesday 23 June 7.15-8.15 (with coffee and snacks). Support for cWG and ccWG issues? Inreach - internal cctld/ALS liaison? Ron's recent liaison report to ccNSO highlighted the number of ALSes and the potential benefits of their building a relationship with their ccTLDs.

ccNSO Council Meeting 23 April - summary report

Young Eum Lee (.kr) replaces Jordan Carter as Co-Chair for Internet Governance due to Jordan's commitments with the ccWG Accountability

The Council expressed no objection to the change made in the ccWG IG Charter encouraging participation by any interested parties in IG working groups. Any formal decisions will be made by those appointed by their chartering organisations.

Discussion about the need for unanimity of ccNSO representatives on the ccWG Accountability resulted in a agreement by the Council that strong consensus of its appointed members should suffice. Disagreement centres around one member who is supporting the status quo rather than the IANA transition process.  

There is still discussion about how best to get feedback from the ccTLD community without going through their normal process of F2F discussion. Of particular concern is how to gain their timely feedback on cWG and ccWG matters.

The SECIR WG has now subscribed over 100 members (77 last month). Looking at a brochure and outreach activities to help to build this number. Next call is May 11. The purpose of the group is to build up a communication network for ccTLD incident response.

Special ccNSO Council meeting (for cWG and ccWG updates) – 17 April

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"Secure Email Communication for cccTLD Incident Response” (SECIR) conference call #13

number of ccTLDs that have joined the mailing list increased from 77 last month to 97.  ccNSO Secretariat have been contacting non-members in batches since ICANN52, and have now invited everyone to join. The WG will increase its outreach in order to encourage more engagement.

A TLD-OPS brochure has been produced to hand out at F2F meetings or by email, encouraging joining up.

Outreach activities proposed - e.g. announcement of the 100th ASCII subscriber, and a short presentation at the ccNSO Members Day in BA to update the community. 

MARCH 2015 ccNSO Report

 ccNSO Activity Summary for March 2015

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Secure Email Communication for ccTLD Incident Response (SECIR) WG - Conference call #12 Mar 20

TLD-OPS status - membership of the list has grown from 29 to 77 since the last conference call on Feb 24.  Invitations to attend the WG sessions by the ccNSO Secretariat are reliant on all IANA Admin Contact email addresses are up to date

Rules of Engagement - feedback on the two webinars on TLD-OPS "rules of engagement" have been discussed. The need for more clarity has resulted in the group refining their draft set of rules over the next weeks, for instance, adding an example for each of the TLD-OPS colour levels. More information about the WG on http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/secir-tld-ops-overview-02mar15-en.pdf

Sharing of incident information - while the purpose of the group is to act as a contact repository for ccTLDs the group decided that  they may share incident information which may be useful and relevant to a large number of subscribed ccTLDs. The group's guidelines will stipulate the use of the main list for sharing but one example could be one ccTLD wanting to notify its peers of an ongoing dictionary attack on the ccTLD's name server because the attack might soon hop to another ccTLD.

The next conference meeting will be during the week of April 8. 

 Informal Report on the ccNSO Council meeting 19 March 1200UTC

CWG and CCWG updates featured highly in reports

Engagement of ccTLD members (including those outside of ccNSO) in the decision making process became a hot topic - to ensure that the ccTLD community viewpoint is heard in discussions about the separability issue, the FOI, use of ICANN finances, etc. Current consensus is that people aren't involved enough. More outreach and facilitating a greater understanding among ccTLD managers is required  to enable more ccTLD managers with appropriate knowledge and expertise to be more involved in ccNSO decision making about important ICANN issues that the ccNSO should be contributing to.

the Council chair and the Chair of the FOIWG have written to the Board Chair, recommending that "the ICANN Board of Directors adopt the FOI and the related recommendations, as included in the Final Report of the FOI WG as the specific guidance on the interpretation of the existing and applicable policies and guidelines on delegation, redelegations and revocation and transfer of ccTLDs."  The ccNSO Council will also "provide the FOI as input to both the CWG Stewardship and CCCWG Accountability working groups, with the request that the FOI and relevant recommendations from the report be incorporated into their work, including the Service Level Agreement, which will be included in the proposal for the IANA Transition Plan".

the Council adopted their Annual Workplan and Schedule and requested that the Secretariat update the workplan monthly and in accordance with the ccNSO Guideline to maintainims, update and review the ccNSO Workplan.

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(6) Final Report of the Freedom of Interpretation Working Group (direct wording of the resolutions)

(6.1) Support Framework of Interpretation. The ccNSO Council expresses its final support for the "Framework of Interpretation" to provide more accurate and detailed analysis of the existing policies for the delegation, transfer and revocation of country code Top Level Domains.

(6.2) Submission of the Framework of Interpretation and recommendations to CWG Stewardship and CCWG Accountability: The ccNSO Council will provide the Framework of Interpretation as an input to both the CWG-Stewardship and CCWG-Accountability working groups, with the request that the Framework and relevant recommendations from the report be incorporated into their work, including into the Service Level Agreement that will be included in the proposal for the IANA Transition Plan.

(6.3) Submission of the Framework of Interpretation and recommendations to ICANN Board of Directors. The ccNSO Council empowers its Chair and Keith Davidson, former chair of the FOIWG, to recommend the Final Report of the FOIWG to the ICANN Board of Directors, if they consider that the terms of the GAC Communiqué are compatible with such recommendation. The ccNSO Council also recommends that ICANN adopt the Framework of Interpretation and adopt the document as the specific guidance on the interpretation of the existing, applicable policies. With that in mind, the ccNSO Council recommends that certain previous documents including the GAC Principles 2000 (which the GAC has superseded in 2005), ICANN's ICP1 and News Memo 1 should be archived and considered no longer used by ICANN or IANA staff.  The ccNSO Council urges ICANN and IANA staff to apply the Framework in the near future, and the Council stands ready to assist IANA staff with that work.

(7)  The ccNSO Council adopted the assignment of roles and responsibilities of Council members  after the workshop on Sunday 8th Feb.   

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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:

Dear GAC Sub-Working Group,

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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

(01/11/2014)

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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