Chair's notes from today's NCSG Executive Committee Meeting on membership issues and pending applications.
21 December 2012
EC Members Present: Robin Gross, Alain Berranger, Rafik Dammak, Cintra Sooknanan
Discussion Summary
I. Updating NCSG's technology tools, processes.
ICANN staff is currently researching and pulling together a proposal for providing an integrated membership database that incorporates all our needs from the initial membership application to the regular maintenance of the data over the lifetime of the member. Robin spoke to Ken Bour and Glen de St. Gery from staff last week to explain our data management needs are willing to work with us to find a solution.
Also, ICANN has reworked the confluence website for NCSG to make a better structure (with this testing page):
Home
We should consider what comments or suggestions for changes should be made to the above proposed wiki structure. We can post new info here that can then be pulled onto the GNSO page for NCSG to keep it dynamic and more substantive. The question of how to best utilize the new myicann website was also raised for further consideration.
II. Pending 15 NCSG membership applications.
In the current batch of 15 pending NCSG membership applications, the EC members present during the discussion approved the applications for 12 of the applicants and require further clarification from 3 applicants. Any EC member who was not present during the meeting's discussion on an applicant that was approved during the meeting has 2 days in which to object to that application's approval decision or request additional information or discussion on that application. Otherwise, hearing no objection on this list within 2 days time from the sending of this notice of approval, these 12 applications will be deemed APPROVED and the applicant ACCEPTED as a member into NCSG at that time.
ACCEPTED:
Bytes for All, Pakistan
British Red Cross
INTIC4DEV - Institut des TIC pour le développement
Edamwen Anthony
Niel Harper
Staffan Jonson
John Border
Sarah Clayton
Anton Permadi
Olga Korotkova
Anthony Nweke
Fondazione Rosselli Americas
PENDING FURTHER CLARIFICATION:
1. Denise Brunsdon
Alain Berranger, Robin Gross, Rafik Damak, Cintra Sooknanan request follow-up from MM on applicant. Also applied under criteria 1 (noncom domain), but domain name supplied appears commercial. Further clarification required.
2. REPAOC
RG, AB, RD, Awaiting information regarding how organization is funded since that question was not answered.
3. TaC-Together against Cybercrime International
Robin Gross, Alain Berranger, Rafik Damak require clarification about SIZE of organization. Is this one person, several people, does it meet eligibility for LARGE org?
-- So these 3 applicants remain on the working applicant list.
