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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.

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 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: 

1. All face-to ­ face ccNSO, ccNSO Council or ccNSO chartered Working group meetings shall be open to observers, unless a majority of the voting members present at the meeting resolve to close the meeting due to the confidential nature of the topic being dealt with. If so, that part of the meeting shall only be closed to observers for the duration of the deliberations of the confidential item.

2.  The ccNSO Guideline Review Committee is requested to update the relevant Guidelines accordingly, and submit them to Council for adoption.

3. The chair of the Council is requested to inform the chairs of the ccNSO chartered WG’s of this Council decision.

3. The formal Council meeting will be held in Helsinki on Thursday 30 June 2016, 10.45 - 12.00pm

• 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.

April 2016 ccNSO Update

*ccNSO Council Meeting (14 April, 1am for me) - Katrina's first meeting as the new Council Chair

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• Post Council meeting Election Results: these newly elected Council members will take up their seats at the end of the ccNSO meeting (9 March 2016) in Marrakesh. 

  African Region
  Abibu Ntahigiye, .tz
  Asia-Pacific Region
  Debbie Monahan, .nz
  European Region
  Peter Vergote, .be
  Latin American and Caribbean Region
  Demi Getschko, .br
  North American Region
  Becky Burr, .us

• ccNSO Council meeting 19 Nov: Main items discussed and decisions made
  • Becky gave an update on the ccWG for those who couldn't attend Mathieu's webinar 
  • Byron and Peter van Roste reported on their participation in the IFG Brazil esp. WSIS+10, Human rights, IXPs (Byron), cybersecurity esp terrorism, intellectual property rights (Peter). 10 streams per session sometimes made it difficult to follow threads.
  • With Alejandra Reynoso's election by the LAC region to replace Victor Abboud, the election report was adopted
  • Stephen Deerhake was elected for North American region, and the election report adopted.
  • Wafa Dahmani Zaafouri (.tn) and Hiro Hotta (.jp) were appointed to the Working Group Extended Process Similarity Review Panel.
  • Next Council meeting Dec 10, and a special meeting on Dec 23 to discuss ccNSO decision about the ccWG proposals
• 18 Nov - ccTLD Webinar - ccWG update: Great summary of progress of the ccWG up to and after Dublin, given by Mathieu Wiel who is one of the ccNSO co-chairs. Bart provided a summary of the discussions held by the ccNSO in Dublin. A recording and Mathieu's ppt presentation will be placed on the ccNSO website shortly.
• ccNSO Special Council meeting (6 November 12.30UTC) held to discuss the decision-making process of the CCWG (Accountability) Proposal with Matthieu Weill. The Council raised concerns relating to the overwhelming amount of information that needs to be reduced to some "digestible" volume so that ccTLD managers can become better informed through the consultation process and provide appropriate feedback which the Council can return to the CCWG. Concern was also raised relating to the proposed "working session" at the IGF and decisions being potentially made excluding those who could not attend the meeting in Brazil, it lacked transparency - Mattheiu assured the Council that a formal meeting would not take place. The Council decided to create outreach opportunities as per the CWG consultation which proved successful. Council appointed members will provide our primary input - consensus being the model rather than unanimity. Webinars (in conjunction with the ROs) and social media will be used to get information out to as many of the ccTLD community as possible - Staff to collate information on how many ccTLDS actually provide feedback. The tight ccWG timeframe constrains the consultation process so that the Council will meet a few days before the deadline date of 31 December in order to make the final decision/statement for delivery to the ccWG.
• ccNSO Council and ccNSO community have been invited to comment on the GNSO Questionnaire CCWG Use of names of country and Territories: 3-letter codes. Comments required by 30 November. This request is a follow-up from the presentation Annebeth Lange (.no) and Paul Szyndler (.au) gave at the ccNSO meeting in Dublin. Their presentation can be found here: https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/tue-ccnso-members/presentation-ctn-20oct15-en.pdf
• A summary has been provided of the discussions from the ccNSO’s ICANN 54 sessions in Dublin related to the IANA Stewardship Transition and the ICANN Accountability work.  An audio recording of the meeting can be found here http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/dublin54/transcripts.htm. A more detailed update of the CCWG Accountability timeline, which can be found at https://www.icann.org/news/blog/volume-11-an-update-on-iana-stewardship-discussions . This update includes key dates and a brief description of the next steps in the process to enable the report on Work Stream 1 recommendations of the CCWG Accountability to be finalized and sent to the ICANN Board by mid-January 2016

October 2015 ccNSO Report

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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

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GNSO Council Response to CCWG-Accountability - FINAL - 22 January 2016