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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 2017 AGM. Maureen Hilyard has served as the  ALAC Liaison to the ccNSO since 2013.

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January 2017 ccNSO update

CCNSO COUNCIL MEETING (12 Jan 20170

Intermeeting Council Decisions

• Selection SSR 2 ccNSO Nominees: 6 candidates asked for ccNSO endorsement. Three candidates were selected – others will be considered if SO/AC Chairs decide there is a need for more. There was some discussion in a later section of the meeting relating to these operational matters. The call for SSR volunteers was made under the old Bylaws and there is some lack of clarity about what Operating Standards the group will operate under.  Any changes to the Operating Standards requires a public comment process and this could take up to a year.  The SSR and the Directory Services Reviews could be operating within a "frameless world" because the Operating Standards are not yet defined. 
  

Appointments

• ccNSO Liaison to ALAC.  Two candidates applied, Wafa Dahmani and Ben Fuller. Their applications and CVs were circulated and Council preferences were asked for by 16 January. As of 22 Jan, a decision has still not yet been made because of lack of response from the Council.
• Volunteers Ethos Awards Committee.  Margarita Valdes Cortes and Nigel Roberts were appointed as ccNSO members on the FY 17 ICANN Ethos Awards Committee
• Appointment (interim) co-chair CCWG Auction Proceeds.  Mathieu Weill, Ching Chiao and Peter Vergote. are the ccNSO representatives to this CCWG. Ching volunteered to be a co-Chair but Peter has warned that the funds will  be those that have been gathered from organisations under the GNSO. The ccNSO will consider Ching's position as "interim" until they reconsider the situation a little down the track. Ching's co-chairmanship has been acknowledged by GNSO but Jonathan Robinson the GNSO Co-Chair has been notified of the ccNSO concerns
• ccNSO Liaison to the GNSO.  Patrick Myles of CENTR is stepping down from this role and a volunteer is being sought to take up his position. Patrick has been thanked for his participation in this role and CENTR has also been thanked for allowing him to take on this role on behalf of the ccNSO.

Adoption Final report and closure WG EPSRP, submission of Final report to the ICANN Board of Directors

• The Chair reported on the EPSRP (Extended Process Similarity Review Panel). The ICANN Board had originally requested guidance on how to deal with split findings. A working group was created, with participants from ccNSO and GAC. Following public comment, the WG's report received full support from ALAC, GAC as well as Verisign – noting the working group needed to take into account the requirements from the RFC and IDNs from ccTLDs and they should be treated equally. The SSAC however rejected the report. The WG was requested to specifically include reference to the Conservatism Principle and that the requirements of RFC 6912 should be taken into account – and some other minor changes. The ccNSO Council adopted the Final report of the ccNSO Extended Process Similarity Review Panel Working Group and the recommendations contained in it. The ICANN Board of Directors will be informed that by submission of the requested guidance and refinement it has completed its work and considers the 3rd review of the Fast Track Process completed. The Council also requested that the Board should reconsider the overall IDN ccTLD policy recommendations as submitted to the Board in September 2013, as foreseen in Annex B section 15 of the ICANN Bylaws to replace the Fast Track Process.  
  

Organizational ccNSO Review and timeline.

• the ccNSO is gathering together a WG which will decide on the Independent Reviewer and the review process, specifically the scope f the process. Representatives of the five regions are being asked to volunteer.  Peter Van Roste has been invited to the RIPE meeting on 24 January to speak about accountability and organisational reviews in the ccTLD world. Jean Jacques Sahel from ICANN, will cover accountability reviews and he believes it would be appropriate to give the group a “heads up” on what the ccNSO is doing in the context of the organizational review. Bart was going to look into whether the staff could put together a slide presentation for Peter to share at this event.  The cNSO is the last SO/AC to be reviewed in this current round. The last review was 5 years ago.

 Update EC AC/ GRC related work 

• Stephen Deerhake updated the Council on the progress of the EC AC guideline for the ccNSO as well as what is happening with the actual EC AC. With respect to annex D, it has been proposed and agreed that the guideline be split into separate guidelines for each of the four major areas covered by annex D with regards to empowered community rights. Plans currently are to do separate guidelines for approval actions, rejection actions, director and board removal and mediation, community IRP and reconsideration requests.  He warned that the ccNSO Council needs to be ready to react as the goal is to have this guideline ready for Council as soon possible – particularly because the PTI FY18 budget gets approved long before the overall ICANN budget.  Stephen noted a concern about the lack of communication between ECA members to that there are consequent concerns about their decision making process insofar as decisions involving community powers, He believes that the ECA needs to self-organize themselves and tend to some administrative matters. He has attempted to reach out to other ECA members without success and is concerned the community will not be able to respond to ICANN when asked to do so. Katrina suggested that she and the Vice Chairs could raise this issue at their meeting with Goran Marby.
  

Update Programme WG - Copenhagen meeting

• Alejandra Reynoso updated the Councilors on the revised block schedule, HIT sessions and Members meeting agenda for Copenhagen. Current schedule for ccNSO meetings with Constituency Groups:
  
  • ALAC-ccNSO Council meeting (tentatively) Sunday 12 March 17.00 local) 
  • ccNSO-GNSO Councils meeting, Monday 13 March, 12.15-13.45 local time. 
  • Board- ccNSO meeting TBC’ed 
  • ccNSO-GAC meeting, tentatively Tuesday 14 March.
    
• Council meeting: 15 March 17.00 Local time, alternatively Thursday 16 March 9 am local time.

NEXT COUNCIL MEETING

• 9 February 2017, noon UTC (corrected to 11 UTC)
  
  
  

December 2016 ccNSO report

CCNSO COUNCIL MEETING (15 Dec 2016)

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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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Update EC AC/ GRC related work – Stephen Deerhake