ccNSO Council Meeting (11 Feb, Singapore52 meeting)
(1) Internet Governance Report (Bart) - there was a proposal to change the role of observers to that of participants
(2) British Virgin Islands (.vg) becomes ccNSO's 153rd member
(3) Giovanni Seppia is appointed to the Chair of the ccNSO Strategic and Operational Planning (SOP) WG - he will liaise between the SOPWG and the Council; Andreas Musielak (.de) was appointed as a member.
(4) Young Eum Lee and Celia Lerman Friedman were appointed as ccNSO's community nominations for the 2015 Multistakeholder Ethos Award panel.
(5) Five regional councillors re-elected for another 3 year term - Africa, Vika Mpisane (.za), Asia-Pacific, Young-Eum Lee (.kr), Europe, Katrina Sataki (.lv), Latin America, Margarit Valdes (.cl), North America, Byron Holland (.ca).
(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mind, the ccNSO Council recommends that certain previous documents including the GAC Principles 2000 (which the GAC has superseded in 2005), ICANN's ICP1 and News Memo 1 should be archived and considered no longer used by ICANN or IANA staff.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.
(8) Byron Holland (.ca) was elected for this third term as Chair of the ccNSO; Katrina (.lv), Keith (.nz),
(1) Giovanni Seppi gave an update report on developments of the ccNSO Strategic and Operational Planning WG.
(2) Byron summarised the work of the CWG Transition - ALAC asked for a copy of his summary (TBA)
(3) Outreach and Engagement - ccNSO provide webinars for newcomers, and to explain ccTLD issues
(4) Tuesday 7am decided as the ccNSO-ALAC meeting time at each meeting. A request was made for breakfast to be provided.
2015 | ccTLD | ALS | GAC |
Total | 152 | 183 | 146 |
NARALO | 5 | 33 | 2 |
LACRALO | 25 | 45 | 20 |
EURALO | 40 | 32 | 42 |
AFRALO | 33 | 37 | 32 |
APRALO | 49 | 36 | 50 |
Dear GAC Sub-Working Group,
We are writing to you on behalf of the Cross Community Working Group (CWG) on the use of Country and Territory Names. The intension of this input is to direct your attention to the on-going work of this CWG as we believe a constructive exchange between your group and ours will contribute to our respective deliberations and also be beneficial to the wider community by facilitating the development ofcomplimentary policies. The CWG is open to members from all SO/ACs and we would therefore encourage members of the GAC sub-Working Group to join our effort. A broad membership will ensure that the CWG drafts a practical, feasible and workable policy framework that will lead to an effective policy, which will hopefully be acceptable to all Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees, and serving the interest of all of ICANN’s stakeholders.
We would like to take this opportunity to clarify the scope of the CWG, as it diverges from the GAC’s Sub-working group for protection of geographic names in next rounds of new gTLDs, and we feel it is important that both you and the wider community are aware of these differences. The CWG has been chartered to reviewthe status of country and territory names under current ICANN policies, guidelines and procedures. Furthermore, the CWG has been asked to provide advice regardingthe feasibility of developing a consistent and uniform framework – for country and territory names as top-level domains – that could be applicable across the respective Supporting Organization and Advisory Committees. Finally, should such a framework be deemed feasible, the CWG should provide detailed advice as to the content of said framework.
We would like to stress that our work is limited to representations of names of countries, territories and their subdivisions listed on or eligible to be listed on theAlpha-2 code International Standards for country codes and codes for their subdivisions (ISO 3166-1). All other geographical indicators are considered out of scope. Moreover, our work is limited to top-level domains; second or other level domains are also outside of the scope of the CWG’s work.
Based on the specificity of our mission, we feel it appropriate to point to the far-reaching scope of your Report on ‘The protection of geographic names in the new gTLDs process’. According to the Final Report of the ccNSO Study Group (ccNSO Study) on the Use Country and Territory Names developing a comprehensive list of all geographic names, as you propose, could lead to more impracticalities than benefits, not least because of the ‘incredible level of complexity associated with any attempt to definitely categories country or territory names, especially when such an effort includes multiple languages or scripts.’
1 The goal of the CWG is to provide a framework for policy development across the country code and generic top-level domain space. Consequently, we are cautious about the proposal of the GAC Sub Working Group to amend the Applicant Guidebook prior to the conclusion of the CWG’s work, as there could be eventual conflicts that might affect the implementation of any effective policy regarding country and territory names as top-level domains. Furthermore, we would strongly advocate coordination of the work of our respective groups as much as possible to avoid discordant recommendations. Please note that our CWG has been chartered by the GNSO Council and the ccNSO Council
2 its membership includes participants from the ccNSO, GNSO, ALAC and the GAC. The ccNSO and GNSO Councils have both been made aware of thiscommunication effort; however, it is important to emphasize this does not represent a formal position of either Council.
In addition, we consider it beneficial to convene a joint face-to-face meeting between the GAC Working Group and our Cross Community Working Group during the forthcoming ICANN 52 Meeting in Singapore. We would suggest a working lunch meeting on Monday, 9 February 2015 and hope this aligns with your agenda. Of course, we would be very happy to consider any alternative time you might suggest.
We hope that you will find our comments useful to your work and are optimistic that this marks the beginning of a fruitful work relationship between our respective groups. We remain at your disposal for any questions or clarifying follow-ups you might have.
Yours sincerely
Annebeth Lange - ccNSO Member, .no Co-Chair CWG on Country and Territory Names as top-level Domains
Carlos Raúl Gutierrez – GNSO Council Member, NomCom Co-Chair CWG on Country and Territory Names as top-level Domains
Heather Forrest, GNSO Council Member, IPC Co-Chair CWG on Country and Territory Names as top-level Domains
Paul Szyndler – ccNSO Member, .auCo-Chair CWG on Country and Territory Names as top-level Domain
(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 4th 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.
ccNSO Activity Report for October 2014 -
(from Kristina Nordstrom 01/11/2014)
Los Angeles Meeting Output:
30 October - Cross-Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions Telephone Conference Transcript
27 October - ccNSO Members Meeting Evaluation Los Angeles 14-15 October 2014
22 October - Cross-Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions Transcript
16 October - Los Angeles GAC Communiqué: https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/Governmental+Advisory+Committee
Audio & Transcripts from the Los Angeles Meeting http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/los-angeles51/transcripts.htm
Presentations from the ccNSO Members Meeting Los Angeles 14-15 October http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/los-angeles51/presentations.htm
Audio, Transcripts & Presentations from Tech Day Los Angeles 13 October http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/los-angeles51/workshop.htm
Working/Study Group Output:
7 October - Framework of Interpretation Working Group Final Report and Recommendations
7 October - Framework of Interpretation Working Group Final Report on Revocation
7 October - Framework of Interpretation Working Group Final Report on “Significantly Interested Parties”
2 October - IANA Stewardship Transition and Accountability Coordination Committee Telephone Conference Transcript
Mp3 recordings and agendas of various ccNSO working group meetings can be found at http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar#oct
ccNSO Council Output:
22 October - ccNSO ICANN Board Nomination Report
22 October - Nomination Report for ccNSO Council 2015
20 October - Interim Adoption of Framework of Interpretation Working Group Final Report
ccNSO Council Meeting Transcript Los Angeles 15 October
Latest ccNSO Council Minutes: ccNSO Council Minutes 25 September
ccNSO Council preparation material and output can be found here http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/minutes.htm
ccNSO Council Decisions on Requests for input: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/decisions.htm
ccNSO Council Decisions and Resolutions: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/decisions-resolutions.htm
ccNSO Progress report 10/10/2014
Final Report of the FOIWG (07/10/2014)
The Framework of Interpretation WG’s (FOIWG) Final Report has been posted and can be found at: Framework of Interpretation Working Group Final Report and Recommendations
ccNSO members for the CWG announced (07/10/2014);
Lise Fuhr, Erick Iriarte, Paul Kane, Vika Mpisane, Staffan Jonson
(Summary) Council meeting minutes - 25 September (08/10/14)
1. Minutes and Actions - All action items completed with exception the action regarding a note to ICANN about the number of ccNSO seats on the Accountability process Coordination Group, which had been overtaken by events.
2. Selection ccNSO Participants ICANN Leadership Training - Resolution 98-01:THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to appoint Hasnul Fadhyly Bin Hasan, .my and Mohammed Al-Kindy, .om for the ICANN Academy Leadership Training Program. The selection was based on following criteria: (1) Representative of ccTLD managers, (2) Potential leadership role in the ccNSO/ccTLD community
3. Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance -
Adoption of charter - Resolution 98-02: THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to adopt the charter for the Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance. The secretariat is requested to inform the conveners of the informal WG as soon as possible as well as the chairs of the other SO’s and AC’s . Action 98-01: The Secretariat to inform the conveners of the informal Working Group as well as the chairs of the other SO’s and AC’s about the adoption of the charter for the Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance.
Call for (additional) Volunteers - current members of the Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance; Participants - Jordan Carter, Becky Burr, Young-eum Lee, Abibu Nitahigeiye (Observer) Keith Davidson. Resolution 98-03: THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to request its Secretariat to seek confirmation of the current members whether or not they want to remain members of the Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance. Once confirmed, the secretariat is requested to send a call for volunteers for the remainder of the slots. The volunteers will be appointed / reconfirmed by the Council. The chair and vice-chairs of the Council are requested to propose a candidate for co-chair of the Working Group, to be confirmed by the Council. Action 98-02: The Secretariat to seek confirmation from the current members of the Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance on whether or not they would like to stay on the group. Action 98-03: The Secretariat to send out a call for volunteers for the remaining slots of the Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance.
4. Cross-Community Working Group on the IANA Stewardship Transition - The Chair noted that theGNSO had adopted the charter of the Cross-Community Working Group on the IANA Stewardship Transition, that the ALAC is in the process of selecting members, that SSAC about to call for volunteers and that the GAC had expressed interest to participate in this group. He further noted that he had written a letter with the GNSO chair Jonathan Robinson suggesting that the timeline that had been set for this group was unrealistic. He also noted that he would initially act as interim co-chair together with Jonathan but that the intent is to select another ccNSO co-chair once the group has been formed. He finally noted that observers had been given a significant status in the group, and even though they would not be able to vote they would be welcomed participate actively in the work of the group. He encouraged anyone interested in this work to join as an observer. The Chair noted the receipt of a letter from Peter Van Roste urging the Council to be inclusive and transparent in the selection process of the Working Group members and suggested that instead of the Council selecting all candidates, the regional managers could come together and chose one of the five. The Council agreed that the selection meant to be made on the special Council meeting the same day should focus on selecting four of the candidates whilst the fifth candidate would be presented by the Regional Organisations within a few days, and that no final Council approval of the fifth candidate would be necessary. Lesley Cowley suggested that the Council and the Regional Organisations could have a separate discussion on to improve collaboration in the future. Peter Van Roste welcomed the suggestion and noted that the Regional Managers would do their best to put forward a candidate within the next few days. Peter also agreed with Lesley’s suggestion and noted that some work in this respect is already ongoing.
5. Progress Accountability Process - Resolution 98-04: THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to adopt the proposed draft as a ccNSO Council Statement. The ccNSO Council thanks the drafting team for its efforts and hard work to produce the statement in the limited timeframe. The Council request the Chair of the ccNSO to submit the adopted Statement as ccNSO Council. Action 98-04: The Chair to submit the adopted Statement on behalf of the ccNSO Council.
6. ICG Update - Keith Davidson reported that the ICG group met face-to-face during the IGF meeting in Istanbul and again recently over telephone. He noted that the next face-to-face meeting would take place during the Los Angeles meeting and that observers are welcome to join the meetings. He further noted that a request for proposals for the IANA Stewardship Transition had been issued by the group. He noted that the deadline for submitting proposals, 15 January 2015, could be difficult to keep in some cases. Keith noted that he would submit a more fulsome written report on the progress of the ICG on the Council email list. Don Hollander suggested that the ICG should also look at administrative issues. Keith welcomed Don to raise this issue with the group at the Los Angeles meeting. Action 98-05: Keith Davidson to provide a written report on the progress of the ICG on the Council email list, including links to various important documents.
7. Update ccNSO Coordination Committee - The Chair reported that the members of the coordination group would be appointed ex-officio. He further noted that a webpage had been created with the relevant links and events, which can be found at the ccNSO webpage. He also noted that an email list had been created and that the group would have a meeting on 2 October. He further suggested that the Regional Managers would be invited to participate in this group as observers. This was agreed. Action 98-06: The Secretariat to add the Regional Organisation managers to the ISTACC email list.
8. Council Updates - Chair reported that he attended the IGF meeting in Istanbul and that the SO/AC leaders had sent a joint letter to ICANN regarding the accountability process. Vice Chair - Keith Davidson noted that he would include any activity updates with his update on the ICG. Councillors - No updates were noted. Regional organisations - Don Hollander noted that he had sent a written update to the Council email list; Peter Van Roste reported that CENTR would have a day where they would invite registrars to their General Assembly the following week and the CENTR is currently conducting a study on the sales channels for New gTLDs and how it could affect the dynamic between registrars and ccTLDs; Carolina Aguerre reported that LACTLD would have a technical meeting in Sao Paulo and that she would provide an update of the outcome of this meeting; It was noted that the joint ccNSO/ALAC meeting in Los Angeles would take place on Thursday morning on 16th of October at 7:30 local time. Staff - No updates were noted.
9. Working Group Updates - updates deferred to the Council email list
10 Liaison Updates - The Chair noted that written updates had already been provided from the GNSO and ALAC liaisons.
ccNSO Activity Summary September 23 2014
1.The ccNsO Council have been very occupied with activities that have overtaken much of other SO and AC agendas at this time, namely:
2.The Agenda for the ALAC-ccNSO Council meeting on Thursday 16 October in LA, has been confirmed.
3.This month's ccNSO Council meeting will be held on Thursday 25th September at (2am my time). Although it is during PacINET conference week, I will attend.
*(26 Aug) NOTE: There is concern being raised in ccNSO Council emails about ccNSO only having one seat on the Accountability Coordination Group (while gNSO gets 4). It is viewed as a very top-down approach and the appointment process of the experts group is also worrying. They are interested in other SO/AC views. Evan?
1. Notes from the ccNSO meeting held 21 August 1200UTC (no meeting in July)
a. ccNSO Council Elections 2015.
Councillors whose term concludes in March 2015 include, Vika Mpisane (Africa), Young Eum Lee (Asia Pacific), Katarina Sataki (Europe), Margarita Valdes (Latin America), and Byron Holland (North America). The ccNSO has appointed an election manager for the ccNSO Council Election Process 2015.
b. ccNSO Board member selection
The seat is currently held by Mike Silber who term ends in 2015. An election manager has been appointed for the ccNSO Board Election Process 2015. One member asked if candidates for both elections could be questioned by the members before the election. Byron confirmed that this would encourage robust dialogue so that the process is more useful to its community.
c. ccNSO member to the NomCom
The ccNSO appointed Juhari Juselius for another term on the NomCom.
d. Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions
The ccNSO resolved to adopt the charter for this ccWG including a friendly amendment that has been attached. Byron is to inform the chairs of the other SOs and ACs. There was quite a bit of discussion about whether it would be possible for a ccTLD which was not a member to take up one of the 5 seats offered to the ccNSO. Byron explained that there will be a selection process but even if non-member ccTLDs are not selected for the formal seats, that they can still participate as observers, and there will be other mechanisms that will also enable them to participate, such as via a webpage and World email list. ccTLDWorld@ICANN.ORG which the staff will establish. The Council will select its five members at its next meeting.
e. Council Coordination Group on IANA Stewardship Transition
The Council adopted the charter as proposed for the creation of the IANA Stewardship Transition and Accountability Coordination Committee. ccNSO staff will create a webpage and other means to encourage engagement of the broader ccTLD community in the two processes.
f. Email vote for candidate for ICANN leadership training.
Because of the delay in getting a quorum at the Council meeting, the 90 minute limit was reached before all matters could be discussed. The selection of the two candidates for the ICANN leadership training will be voted on by email.
g. Date of next ccNSO Council meetings
2. Meeting between ALAC and ccNSO in Los Angeles
Because of lack of time at the Council meeting, it was decided that Ron, Katrina and I will coordinate logistics and content for the next group meeting. This is still being finalized via Heidi and the staff. Content wise, possibly a presentation of IANA perspectives, as well as an update on the ALAC-ccNSO joint database project proposed at our last meeting.
3. ALAC-ccNSO Joint Database project
Discussions with Dev and Ron about progress updates relating to the ALS-ccNSO-GAC coordination for each country which is a member of any of these organisations. The current spreadsheet is listed on https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q8OAE8PcV4pwW05PwfXxfd4Rf06T_QYxL0qH745YZYU/edit?usp=sharing with an expectation to deliver the LACRALO model of coordination as @ https://community.icann.org/display/lacstrtgy/Existing+ICANN+Stakeholders+from+LAC+region
4. ccNSO WG on Country Names
I listened to the recording of the last meeting held by the group on 15 July which was mainly an introduction to the previous WG output which was the report on the Use of Country and Territory Names. Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Country/Territory Names Transcript
5. ccNSO Activity Summary for July 2014
http://ccnso.icann.org/resources/activity-summary-jul14-en.htm
6. ccNSO Action items completed from the last Council meeting.
Action 96-01: The Secretariat to inform the SOP Working Group about the appointment of Giovanni Seppia as interim chair of the Working Group.
Action 96-02: The secretariat to inform the GNSO and the GNSO appointed co-chairs of the Working Group about the appointment of Lise Fuhr as ccNSO co-chair of the Working Group.
Action 96-03: The Secretariat to inform the GNSO and the GNSO appointed co-chair of the Working Group about the appointment of Becky Burr as co-chair of the Working Group for the Development of a Framework of Principles for Cross-Community Working Groups.
Action 96-04: The Secretariat to send out a call to the ccTLD community for the 4 volunteers to the charter drafting team as soon as possible after closure of the Council meeting and to indicate in the call that those who are interested may attend the informal meeting of the envisioned drafting group during the London meeting.
Action 96-05: The Chair to seek members and nominate the members of the selection committee as soon as possible and send it to the Council for final approval by 26 June noon UTC.
Action 96-06: The Secretariat to set-up an email list, including email contacts to all ccTLDs, solely for the purpose to inform and engage the community in the IANA Stewardship Transition Process.
Action 96-07: The Chair to finalize the call for nominations, including the criteria for selection of the 4 ccTLD members on the Coordination Committee and send it to the Council for final approval by 26 June noon UTC.
Action 96-08: The secretariat to send out the approved call for self-nominations and refer the nominations received to the Selection Committee upon receiving the nomination.
Action 96-09: The Secretariat to publish the names of the nominees for the IANA Coordination Committee on the ccNSO Website.
Action 96-10: The Secretariat to draft a charter for a coordination committee on IANA Stewardship Transition and Accountability.
ccNSO Activity Summary - July 2014
Reminder of London-related Output:
Audio & Transcripts: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/london50/transcripts.htm
Tech Day Output: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/london50/workshop.htm
ccNSO Members Meeting Presentations: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/london50/presentations.htm
Other Working/Study Group Output:
15 July - Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Country/Territory Names Transcript
Mp3 recordings and agendas of various ccNSO working group meetings can be found at http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar#jul
ccNSO Council Output:
Council Resolutions: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/decisions-resolutions.htm
ccNSO Council Preparation Material http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/minutes.htm
Links and Announcements regarding the IANA stewardship transfer:
9 July – Latest updates on the IANA Functions
Stewardship Transition: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-16-en
19 July: Statement from the First Meeting of the IANA Stewardship Transition
Coordination Group (ICG): https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/draft-icg-statement-18jul14-en.pdf
14 July - Final Report of the Selection Committee to Coordination Group IANA Stewardship Transition Process
2 July - Information on ccNSO Selection Process Coordination Group IANA Stewardship Transition Process
Other Announcements:
24 July - Update from ICANN's Policy Department
8 July - ccNSO London Meeting Highlights Report
7 July - London Members Meeting Evaluation Results
ccNSO Liaison Report for ALAC - July 22
The period since London has been taken up with the selection of the Coordination Groups members. Fortunately the robust process used by the ccNSO (outlined below) prevented any arguments raised by a non-member about their non-representation in the final Coordination selection. The selection of the final four was made by a multilateral group of ccTLD managers, including a non-ccNSO member. Apart from that, things have been fairly quiet. The monthly ccNSO Council meeting was cancelled. A survey was sought from members about their favourite session. The results are here.
The London meeting began with the Joint ALAC-ccNSO Leadership meeting (Report is below) where the main action item that resulted from this was the establishment of a database by Dev, Ron and myself linking ALSes with their ccTLDs. This database could be extended later to include GAC representatives as well. A start has been made on the database. During the London meeting I attended the first day of ccNSO presentations but unfortunately was ill on the second day and missed the ccNSO council meeting. The resolution below was the Councils initiation into the Coordination Committee selection process which resulted in the final decision (Report from the ccNSO Selection Committee on IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group) on 11 July.
The ccNSO Council resolves to establish a 5 members Selection Panel to select the 4 members on the IANA Stewardship Transition Process Coordination Committee. At least 4 of the members of the selection committee shall be from the ccTLD community. The selection committee will include at least two members of the ccNSO Council, including its chair, one member of a Board of a regional TLD organization and one non-ccNSO member. Its task is to review the applications and select the 4 ccTLD members of the Coordination Committee to the ccNSO Council by (date to be determined) prior to a special meeting of the ccNSO Council on (date to be determined). In its review and selection, the committee will take into account and be guided by the criteria for selection included in the call for nominations.
The chair of the ccNSO is requested to seek members and nominate the members of the selection committee as soon as possible and send it to the Council for final approval by 26 June noon UTC. Interviews of candidates may be conducted. Members of the Selection Committee are not eligible as candidates for the Coordination Committee
Discussion focus areas:
identifying and strengthening opportunities for collaboration between the ALAC/At-Large and ccNSO communities
Action items:
Other possible activities:
Discussion:
ccNSO Liaison Report for ALAC - May 27 2014
Pre-registrations have been done, but their programme is still being coordinated by their Meeting Programme Committee
PROMOTION: Commonwealth DNS Forum 2014: Promoting DNS Investment, Innovation and the Development of Multistakeholder Partnership
19 - 20 June 2014 - coordinated by NOMINET
KEY TOPICS
Freedom of interpretation WG mtg - 22 May 2014
* It was thought that this might be the WG's final meeting, but additional discussion about the proposed recommendations that will accompany the Revocation report required more meetings to further review the recommendations. This will take place next week (two meetings if required) so that they can get this document completed before May 31, so that it can be ready in time for the FOIWG meeting with the GAC in London.
Summaries of April ccNSO activities
Framework of Interpretation Working Group Progress Report Singapore (25 March)
Calls for ccNSO Council input into :
Drafts prepared
Resolutions from the ccNSO meeting - Singapore 26 March 2014
Resolution 93-01: ccNSO Membership
THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to approve .id (Indonesia) as members of the ccNSO.
The resolution was approved unanimously.
Resolution 93-02: IANA Transition Process
THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to appoint Byron Holland, Keith Davidson and Becky Burr as ccNSO Process Coordination Committee with respect to IANA Functions Transition Process. The purpose of this committee is to coordinate the ccNSO efforts to participate in the IANA Functions Transition Process, and coordinate the ccNSO with other efforts aimed at including the broad ccTLD community in the process. The committee may invite other members of the ccTLD community to participate in the work of the committee, if deemed necessary and appropriate.
The resolution was approved unanimously.
Resolution 93-03: Closure of the Joint IDN Working Group and Next Steps for Certain IDN-related Issues
THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to adopt following points regarding the JIG Working Group:
1. The ccNSO Council believes that in view of the ongoing community work at ICANN on these issues the JIG may now be closed, and will terminate the extension of the JIG as outlined in the charter.
2. The ccNSO Council will continue to monitor the progress of the various community-based efforts to resolve the issues raised by the JIG, and will evaluate the need for any further policy or policy related work on a periodic basis; and
3. The ccNSO Council thanks the JIG for all its hard work in ensuring that solutions to these important issues are developed through community-based efforts.
The resolution was approved unanimously.
Resolution 93-04: Adoption of Charter for a Cross-Community Working Group to Develop a Framework of Operating Principles for Future Cross Community Working Groups
THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to:
1. Adopt the Charter and appoint Becky Burr as the ccNSO Council liaison to the CWG that will develop the Final Framework;
2. Coordinate next steps with the GNSO Council to jointly issue a call for volunteers for the CWG; and
3. Until such time as the CWG select its co-chairs for the Working Group and those co-chairs are confirmed by the ccNSO and GNSO Councils, the ccNSO Council liaison to the CWG shall serve as the interim co-chair from the ccNSO.
The resolution was approved unanimously.
Action 93-01:
The Secretariat to call for volunteers for the Cross-Community Working Group to Develop a Framework of Operating Principles for Future Cross Community Working Groups (CWG-WG).
Resolution 93-05: Adoption of Charter for Cross-Community Working Group to Develop a Framework for the use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs (UCTN WG)
THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to:
1. Adopt the Charter and appoint Paul Szyndler as the Interim ccNSO Co-Chair to the Cross-Community Working Group to advice on the feasibility of a framework for the use of Country and Territory names as TLDs, and develop such a framework if deemed feasible.
2. Collaborate with the other SOs and ACs to issue a call for volunteers for this CWG, each in accordance with its own rules. The secretariat is requested to coordinate the call for volunteers.
The resolution was approved unanimously.
Action 93-02:
The Secretariat to call for volunteers to the Cross-Community Working Group to Develop a Framework for the use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs (UCTN WG).
Resolution 93-06: Election Review Committee Final Report
THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to adopt the recommendations of its Election Review Committee:
1. The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to look into possibilities of developing a new voting system, which allows each member to handle and update their own data and which is linked to a voting tool making it the voting much easier to handle.
2. The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to update the ccNSO Election Guidelines with the additional wording: “ Only ccNSO Primary or Secondary Contacts, as listed in the ccNSO Database, are eligible to nominate or second a candidate” in the appropriate section.
3. The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to update the ccNSO Election Guidelines with the additional wording: Self-Nominations or Secondments are not allowed” in the appropriate section.
4. The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to continue its activities on awareness raising campaigns, when necessary.
The Council wholeheartedly thanked all members of the committee and in particular its chair Katrina Sataki, for its hard work in this area and closes the Election review Committee.
The resolution was approved unanimously.
Chair and Vice Chair Elections
Roelof Meijer nominated Byron Holland as chair of the ccNSO.Dotty Sparks de Blanc seconded the nomination.The resolution was approved by acclamation.
Hiro Hotta nominated Katrina Sataki as first vice-chair of the ccNSO.Lesley Cowley seconded the nomination. The resolution was approved with one abstention (Katrina Sataki).
Young-Eum Lee nominated Keith Davidson as second vice-chair of the ccNSO. Becky Burr seconded the nomination. The resolution was approved unanimously
Resolution 93-07: Roles and Responsibilities of Councillors
THE COUNCIL RESOLVED to adopt the assignment of tasks as proposed in the assignment of roles and responsibilities March 2014.
The resolution was approved unanimously.
Date of next meetings
17 April 12.00 UTC
22 May 12.00 UTC
25 June 16.00 local London time
AOB
Action 93-03:
The IANA Transfer Coordination Committee to draft a statement on behalf of the ccNSO regarding the current events around Internet Governance and circulate it to the Council prior to the next Council meeting.
Meeting Closed
ccNSO Report to the ALAC - 27 March 2014, Singapore
1. The joint meeting of the ALAC and ccNSO Council was held on Monday March 24. Olivier and Byron were delayed at an ICANN meeting regarding IANA, Katrina and I began the meeting, and then provided the participants with the overviews of our respective organisations. There were seen to be some commonalities that we can work on for the future, and these will be raised in future meetings of the coordinating committee (Katrina, myself, Cheryl and Ron). The time factor involving unforeseen circumstances did not allow for our planned discussion about internet governance but as the ICANN meeting has been overrun with this as a topic, it did not seem necessary by either group.
2. Unfortunately the Tuesday March 25 ALAC schedule was quite busy with important topics which kept me from the ccNSO programme, which included:Working Group updates: FOIWG; ICANN Meeting Strategy ; Name collisions; Internet Governance Sessions: NTIA Updates; Developments in Asia (with presentations from China, Korea and Singapore; and an interesting multistakeholder panel on perspectives related to the globalisation of IANA which I did attend); Meetings with external groups : ICANN Board, GAC, IANA and NomCom.
3. On Weds March 26, I was able to attend a programme that was packed and interesting.. and included:
a) Security: Patrick's presentation was as per the ALAC version; An update on the survey related to a Contact Repository - which would deal with major DNS incidents relating to ccTLDs - would be quite expensive to run; Ryan Tan presented on how .sg is dealing with identity theft; The NZ internet Task force (NZITF) - Barry Brailey - a not-for -profit working on improving cybersecurity - $50 membership fee - they organise workshops as well as draft guidelines and support research - and participate in NetHui (invite to PacINET?); Result of malware mining in national domains (a survey in Russia). Interesting bit- Whowas? which gives information about identified malware domains.
b) ccTLD News from: Finland esp the government's proposal to develop a Information Society Code; Calzone.org which tracks calendar information about any TLD applications from the time they are registered with ICANN;where are they sitting in the registration process?; CNNIC has become national hub of TLDs in China in the new gTLD era (Sun Xiantang). interesting bits - 18.44 million domain names in Chinese market; 10.83 million are registered with .cn; 74.17million on IPv4; CNNIC is involved in outreach - growing information about ICANN, also in internet governance research and keen to collaborate and share research findings;Growth through building a brand (.co - Crystal Peterson) 28k registrations in 2010, now 1.6m registrations; Business strategy based on creating awareness; building relationships with customers; .co membership (engaging with partners and business customers - with access to webinars, events, etc);.nz Marketing (Jay Daley):explained the strategy used to promote the .nz brand
c) Regional Organisations Updates: AFTLD - Africa internet Summit in May; planning to build an observatory for ccTLDs; and to hold a Domain Name Summit; APTLD - focus is on education, information and advocacy; also including DNSSEC deployment, justice sector engagement, security; IDNs, market development, registrar relationships; internet coordinator and training coordination. Mtg schedule; Malaysia last month; Oman - May 11-14; India - August; Pacific - Brisbane, September; Unfortunately I missed the other updates due to a meeting with my mentee, Gunela Astbrink.
4. ccNSO COUNCIL MEETING - 4-5pm March 26 (summary)
8. Election of ccNSO Council Officers: Byron Holland was re-elected as the Chair of the ccNSO Council; Vice Chairs - Katrina Sataki and Keith Davidson; Roles and Responsibilities of Councillors - the assignment of tasks were adopted; Roelof Meijer was thanked for his work on the Council. Nigel Roberts is the new Council member
9. Date of next meetings: 7 April 1200 UTC, 22 May 1200 UTC and 25 June 1600 local London time
5. Cross-Community Working Group to develop a framework for the use of Country and Territory names as TLDs. An impromptu introductory meeting was held on Thursday 8am. The purpose was to provide some background for those who may not have been involved in the original study, and to set a timeframe for the appointment of cross-community representatives to the working group, ALAC has already appointed their reps (liaisons to the ccNSO who were part of the original study group) and the gNSO say that they can get their representatives selected soon. ccNSO will have to wait until the next Council meeting to confirm its reps, so that it is assumed that the next meeting of the group will probably not take place until just before London.
ccNSO Report to the ALAC - 25 February 2014 1500UTC
1. As you can see below, the ALAC-ccNSO Coordination Team has met and established a schedule of events for our joint meeting, which will held on Monday, March 24, This will be a lunch time meeting and the main focus will be on creating some understanding about each other's organisational structures, roles and responsibilities. Also to look at whether there is any overlap within our communities.
2. There were two FOIWG meetings but I was only able to make one of them. The focus of the first meeting (on Feb 6, below) was the discussion of ALAC's feedback to their Revocation Report. Very briefly, they believed that most of ALAC's queries were outside of the brief of the working group because we tended to ask about issues relating to the way that IANA operates which is not this WG's function ..
Maureen
Report on ALAC-ccNSO Coordination Meeting Feb 20
Final organisation of the meeting programme on Monday 24 March 12.30-1400, in Singapore
12.30 - 13.00 Lunch - informal networking
13.00 - 13.05 Introduction by the Chairs of ALAC and ccNSO
(no formal introductions from others, but request to state name for transcription purposes)
13.05 - 13.30 Introduction to the role of ccTLDs and of ALSes
(presentation on diversity of ccTLDs, role of the LIC - local internet community, and policy remits ccTLDs and ccNSO/ICANN; Role of ALSes, RALOs, At Large, potential overlap with LIC)
Combined presentation by Katrina Sataki (ccNSO) and Maureen Hilyard (ALAC) (20 mins)
Q&A, discussion and further conversation, in particular local<>global (5-10 mins)
13.30 - 13.45 HOT TOPIC
Internet Governance Fora: commonalities and shared interest, focusing on local versus global
If time, ccEG IG discussion; Byron to include reference to Ad-hoc group and background for creation
13.45 - 13.55 Wrap-up and Closure (in time to attend 2pm sessions)
ccNSO Liaison Report to ALAC - FOIWG Meeting Feb 6
Of particular interest to the ALAC was the discussion about the ALAC statement on the Revocation report
The WG acknowledged the ALAC's positive response to the report. There were four areas that were highlighted for discussion by the WG.
ccNSO Report to the ALAC - 29 January 2014 1500UTC
1) Meeting of the ALAC-ccNSO Coordination WG meeting on 13 January 2014
Attended by: Maureen H, Cheryl L-O (ALAC), Katrina, Bart, Margarita (ccNSO) Kristina (Staff)
Decisions: .
*Meeting time: ALAC-ccNSO Council meeting in Singapore to take place on Monday lunchtime (12.30-2pm) - lunch will be provided
*Agenda(these topics will be padded out before the Singapore meeting)
*Next meeting - few weeks before Singapore (TBC
There was a lack of a quorum to be able to discuss important agenda items including:
We reviewed a FOIWG Terminology document
Other agenda items will be dealt with at our next meeting along with other responses that may come from the public consultation process.
Our meeting schedule: Feb 6 03:00 UTC, Feb 20 11:00 UTC; Mar 6 19:00 UTC; Mar 27 F2F at ICANN Singapore
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November 20, 2013. ccNSO Council Meeting
1) Apologies (MH was introduced to the Council members)
2) Minutes and Actions
Action 88-01: Gabriella Schittek to send a note to the Council with the link to the Council meeting preparation material on the ccNSO website. Completed
Action 88-02: The Secretariat to arrange for the Study Group on Use of Names for Countries and Territories resolutions to be adopted on the Council email list. Completed
Action 88-03: The Secretariat to arrange for the resolution on appointing the volunteers for the joint ALAC/ccNSO meeting to be adopted on the Council email list. Completed
Action 88-04: Hong Xue to send the Chair a copy of the ICANN Academy curriculum for the leadership training in Buenos Aires. Completed
Action 88-05: Bart Boswinkel to follow up on the progress of the ccNSO statements on IANA delegation and redelegation of ccTLDs and on the Geographic Regions Working Group report. Overtaken by time
3) Updates
3.1 Chair Update - Byron attended the Bali IGF - mentioned the Montevideo statement and the SO/AC mtg
3.2 Vice-chair Update - Keith attended the Australian IGF, then Bali - same involvement as Byron. ISOC Board activities includes a meeting with ICANN Board re harmonisation of activities.
3.3 Councilors Update (http://ccnso.icann.org/council-members.htm for councilor names)
3.4 Regional Organizations Update (LACTLD, AFTLD, APTLD - Don Hollander - new manager)
3.5 Staff Update
4) Membership applications
Background
The ccNSO received an application for ccNSO membership from .vn, the ccTLD of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The application has been filed by Hoang Minh Cuong, representing the cc's manager, the Ministry of Information and Communications of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. There are no outstanding issues with .vn.
The ccNSO received an application for ccNSO membership from .ee, the ccTLD of Estonia. The application has been filed by Heiki Sibul, representing the cc's manager, Eesti Interneti SA EIS. There are no outstanding issues with .ee.
Draft resolution
The ccNSO Council approves the application of both .vn and .ee and welcomes both .vn and .ee as members 143 and 144 respectively. (passed)
5) Final Report joint ccNSO-GNSO IDN Working group
Background (presented by Young Eum)
The JIG (Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN Working Group) was formed by mutual charters between the ccNSO and GNSO councils, and extended (ccNSO: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/minutes-council-23aug11-en.pdf | GNSO: http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#201107) to complete its work on the 3 identified issues of common interest between the ccNSO and GNSO.
One of those issues concerns Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs. The JIG published its Draft Final Report on Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs for public comment which closed on 16 August 2013, http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/idn-tld-acceptance-final-25jun13-en.htm). The JIG reviewed the comments received and finalized its report accordingly. The JIG submitted its Final Report to the GNSO Council on 17 November, http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-18nov13-en.htm.
Draft resolution: (passed)
The ccNSO Council adopts the JIG Final Report on Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs and its recommendations and will submit it to the ICANN Board for its consideration.
The ccNSO Council thanks the JIG for its work, with special thanks to Jothan Frakes for his contributions in proactively reaching beyond the ICANN community to address issues identified in the report.
The ccNSO Council recognizes that further work needs to be done in relation to IDNs, in particular IDN variants and universal acceptance of IDNs and asks the JIG to put forward suggestions on how to deal with these issues and deliver these suggestions to the ccNSO Council by the ICANN Singapore Meetings in March 2014.
The ccNSO Council requests its chair to inform the chair of the GNSO of the decision of the ccNSO, and the co-chairs of the JIG accordingly, and submit the report to the Board of Directors of ICANN together with the chair of the GNSO, when the report of the JIG is adopted by the GNSO.
6) Final Report joint DNS stability and security analysis working group
Background (presented by Byron)
The joint DNS Security and Stability Analysis working group was established by the participating Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees ALAC, ccNSO, GNSO and NRO to better understand the security and stability of the global domain name system (DNS) in 2011.
In October 2011 the ICANN Board of Directors established the Board DNS Risk Management Framework Working Group (DNS RMF WG), with the objective to oversee the development of a risk management framework and system for the DNS as it pertains to ICANN's role as defined in the ICANN Bylaws.
At the time the DSSA published its draft Report Phase 1 (August 2012), the DSSA went into hibernation to avoid overlap with the work of the Board DNS RMF and noted and informed the participating SO’s and AC’s that in order to reflect the changed environment and working method, the charter of the DSSA would need to be updated to reflect these changes.
The co-chairs of the DSSA WG have send a letter to the chairs of each of the participating stakeholder organizations to submit the Final Report and the work products contained in it (available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/dssa-final-08nov13-en.pdf) . The DSSA recommends the acceptance of the Final Report and further recommends that the Final Report be disseminated to the ccTLD’s for their consideration.
Upon adoption of the Final report of the DSSA, and notification of adoption to the co-chairs of the DSSA, the working group will be closed.
Draft resolution (passed)
The ccNSO Council adopts the Report submitted by the co-chairs of the DSSA WG, as the Final Report of the DSSA WG in accordance with section 2.4 of its charter.
The chair of the ccNSO is requested to inform the co-chairs of the DSSA WG of adoption of the Report by the ccNSO Council.
The chair of ccNSO is also requested to inform the chairs of the other participating SO’s and Ac’s (ALAC, GNSO and NRO).
Finally, the ccNSO Council thanks and congratulates all, and in particular the co-chairs of the WG: Olivier Crepin-LeBlond ( ALAC), Joerg Schweiger (.DE, ccNSO), Mikey O’ Connor (GNSO), James Galvin ( SSAC) and Mark Koster (NRO) and all volunteers and staff who helped with this effort.
7) Final Report Finance working group
Background (Byron heads this group - they've held 13 working meetings plus ICANNmeetings - robust discussion right to the end to achieve best available solution. The have posted the final report with a resolution. Byron acknowledged the work of the WG)
The ccNSO Finance WG was established in October 2010 with a mandate that included:
“a. to discuss with ICANN (i.) the amounts attributed to ccTLDs and (ii) the underlying attribution method(s) to attempt to establish which of those amounts and method(s) are reasonable and may be acceptable to the ccTLD community
b. to discuss with ICANN a methodology for individual ccTLDs to use to calculate a fair and equitable voluntary financial contribution to ICANN and propose such a methodology to the ccTLD community
After a long and intense consultation process of the community the WG and others the WG, finalized its report during the ccNSO meeting in Buenos Aires meeting (November 2013).
The chair of the Finance WG submitted the Final Report of the WG to the Council recommending that the ccNSO Council adopts the proposed Guideline to replace the March 2007 Guideline on Financial contributions. (http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-09mar07.htm)
The chair of the ccNSO received a letter from ICANN’s CEO and President expressing his support for the emerging outcome of the discussion on the financial contribution from the ccTLD community to ICANN, and his acceptance of the “ value exchange model” and the associated overall level of the financial contribution and the voluntary nature of the contributions(http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-20nov13-en.htm ).
Draft Resolution
The ccNSO Council notes and welcomes the exemplary, long and intensive consultation efforts and process the Finance WG went through, to gather input and feed-back from the community.
The ccNSO Council notes and welcomes the letter from ICANN’s CEO and President on the overall level of the financial contribution and the voluntary nature of the contributions.
The ccNSO Council adopts the proposed November 2013 Guideline for Voluntary Contributions of ccTLDs to ICANN, and request the chair of the ccNSO to inform the CEO and President of ICANN accordingly, once the Guideline becomes effective.
The ccNSO Council requests staff to publish this resolution as soon as possible after closure this ccNSO Council meeting.
In accordance to the rules of the ccNSO (http://ccnso.icann.org/about/ccnso-rules-dec04-en.pdf) , the November 2013 Guideline will become effective seven days after publication of the decision by the Council.
Finally, the ccNSO Council wholeheartedly thanks and congratulates all who participated in the process and in particular the chair of the Finance WG (Byron Holland, .CA) and the members of the Finance WG, and Xavier Calvez (CFO ICANN) and other staff, and all members of the community who were involved in this long and sometimes challenging effort.
9) Next steps to identify potential issues and propose next steps pertaining to cross-community capacity building
For discussion: Follow-up action needed? (This flows out of conversations in Durban and relates to any potential interest to share information about capacity building. The ICANN Academy Group is already cross-community / cross-regional?)
10) ccTLD representation on the 3 IG Tracks:
11) Working Group and Other Updates
11.1 Meetings Program WG (Katrina) - a positive change has already been made by this group to put the names and pictures of the people on the panels during this meeting - very helpful for newbies . Katrina has tried advertising to invite people to come to meetings. An invitation is being sent out re a post meeting survey. Google calendar has been developed.
11.2 Incident Response Repository WG (Bart) a survey has gone out about the topics, for guidance re IRR
11.3 Election review Council committee (Katrina)
11.4 Quorum Study Group (Katrina)
Other updates:
ICANN Outreach Program (Sokol)
ICANN Academy (Hong Xue)
Progress ccNSO Statements
Progress other WG’s has extensively been discussed during the meeting
12) Council Election update
Elected:
Victor Abboud, .ec (LAC region)
Hiro Hotta, .jp (AP region)
Dotty Sparks de Blanc, .vi (NA region)
Election needed in:
African & European region
Appointment will be formalized once the election in the African and European region have been completed and the Election Manager has submitted the Election report for adoption by the Council
13) Board selection Seat 11 update
Chris Disspain, CEO of AUDA has been nominated and seconded. There are no other nominees. The Election Manager will provide a report of the nomination process prior to the next meeting. The Council will be requested to select the Board member at that time.
14) Update Work Plan
An updated workplan, based on the outcome of the Buenos Aires meeting will be send to the Council 29 November 2013
15) Liaison Updates
15.1 GNSO Liaison (Patrick Myers)
15.2 ALAC Liaison (Ron Sherwood)
16) Date of Next Meetings
10 December 2013, 12.00 UTC
The schedule for the meetings in 2014, will be proposed before the next meeting
Working group reports
a) FOIWG - Keith Davidson - Followup will be the glossary
Topics for interpretation
Activities since Durban
Published progress report on activities - met on teleconferences 5 x
Details on Revocation
RFC 1591 identifies three mechanism available to the IANA operation: delegation, transfer and revocation
Under RFC1591, a transfer requires the consent of the incumbent ccTLD manager
Revocation refers to the process by which the IANA operator rescinds responsibility for management of a cctLD from a manager.
If a manager does not consent to a proposed Transfer, the only mechanism available to the IANA Operator is to deal with the situation is revocation.
Revocation does not mean the removal of the ccTLD from the root - the issue is with the management of the ccTLD
Assessing how the ccTLD has carried out the necessary responsibilities, judging the extent of the requirements having been met or not met, might have to be done locally rather than by the IANA Operator who won't have the regular knowledge of this performance.
Substantial misbehaviour - given in detail in the document - it is in public consultation - generally it requires a degree of seriousness, magnitude and persistence.. And compromises the security of the ccTLD.
RFC1591 refers to community support as well - loss of community support is included as an appropriate complaint
b) Country Names Study Group - Paul Szyndler
3 recommendations made
November 20, 2013. Country reports
Recent Developments of Governmental Movements in Japan – TBC
The Japanese government recently decided to set up an expert committee to create a mechanism for oversight of the management of DNS, including the registry operation, in Japan. The presentation will brief its background and how such mechanism is expected to be.
Current Status and Plans of the registry NIC.VE – Jesus Rivera, .ve
Current status of the registry regarding the functional structure of the nic.ve (organization chart), explanation of the process of Domain Names Registration; Legal framework; relevant cases and procedures for conflict resolution through WIPO; NIC.VE numbers, Statistical Data (Indicators); Some considerations and updates on modernization projects.
EURid co-Funded Marketing Programme Update – Giovanni Seppia, .eu
The Co-funded Marketing Programme has been available to .eu accredited registrars since 28 April 2009. The first evaluation of the Programme took place in mid-2010, upon request of the European Commission. However, at that stage, only a limited number of campaigns had been carried out under the scheme and it was difficult, therefore, to properly assess the value of the Programme for .eu accredited registrars and its impact on .eu registration volumes and awareness of the domain. Over the course of 2010 and 2011, the Programme has taken off considerably. An overview of the campaigns conducted shows that the number of proposals submitted has risen steadily since 2009 to reach 90 proposals so far in 2013. Under the Co-funded Marketing Programme, EURid contributes to the costs of a registrar¹s .eu marketing campaign that meets specific conditions. The Programme has been recently awarded the CENTR Awards for Marketing and Communication.
November 19, 2013, Buenos Aires - ALAC/ccNSO meeting (meeting started late)
1.Exploration and Discussion of opportunities for developing mutual interests and cooperation between ccNSO and the ALAC / At-Large Community.
2. Identification and Discussion of Interactions and Expectations of Liaisons and Work/Study Group contributions (including relevant Public Comments) between ALAC and ccNSO
Panel Discussions Nov 20
Summaries of the comments of some of the speakers.
Sebastian - ISOC - esp re Latin America and Africa - very coordinated
Baher - explained that capacity building is not as coordinated in the Middle East - Not just technical but aso policy related. Howeever, Technical is significant. Collaborate with other I* organisations = responding to the needs of local areas. Train the trainer and similar models are seen as a way to drive things forward and incorporated into development plans.
Paul Wilson - has coordinated the activities of all the RIRs - these are the bodies related to the distribution of IP addresses - work with ISPs - there is a diversity of priorities that come from guidance from our members - based on the relationship with the ISPs. APNIC's founding docs contain a mission to facilitate education around the region - share that mission with RipeNIC and LACNIC - collectively across the RIRs re involved in the training in variousforms - each of the RIRs has two meetings a year and those mtgs serve members and community - org specific content - conference oriented towards professional practices and challenges - do these in collaboration with TLDs, ICANN, RIRs, and NOGs who organise at a regional level cos they are the channels to the ISPs and the source of demand about growth and development within the industry. The mission is to bring this realtime ifnormation into the system.- capacity building in internet infrastructure across the region - technical capacity can make a lot of difference to achieveing an efficient infrastructure within a country within a developing market (professional abiility to lose technical skills to other areas).. The need for capacity building is a definite need in developing countries especially.
The was more of an interview session with Brad White.
Following a security breach Costa Rica, Rosalia was able to advise other ccTLDs should it happen to them. For example:Recommendations
Current ccNSO Activities; Call for Comment; etc., recommended for ALAC, RALO and/or ALS input, contribution or focus upon:
2. The ccNSO Council has received applications for ccNSO membership from .ee the ccTLD for Estonia. The application has been filed by Heiki Sibul, representing the cc's manager Eesti Interneti SA EIS. If were no objections to .ee's membership, .ee was welcomes a member #144 of the ccNSO!
Ongoing:
This list will be updated continuously.
Activities of the following ccNSO WG's relate to specific interests of ALAC and parts of At-Large.
Please, note that corrections and updates to parts of these reports, will be done continuously.
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(note now only CURRENT month Minutes etc., will be archived here and replaced with each subsequent meeting)
ALL OTHER Agendas, Minutes, Transcripts and recording of all other ccNSO Council Meetings can be found within the ccNSO Master Calendar HERE
ccNSO Council Activity Summaries.
ccNSO Activity Summary - October 2013
ICANN Buenos Aires
Working Groups
All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during October 2013 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Notes, minutes and transcripts from Working Group Meetings throughout October 2013 may be missing in this summary, due to the timing of their delivery. Please, visit http://www.ccnso.icann.org/calendar regularly for a comprehensive summary.
Council
New Members
Various Announcements
Open ccNSO Related Public Comment Periods
ccNSO Activity Summaries:- September 2013
IDN ccPDP
Working Groups
Council
New Members
Various Announcements
Open ccNSO Related Public Comment Periods
August 2013
IDN ccPDP Vote
Call for Volunteers
Various Announcements
July 2013
Durban Meeting
Working Groups
IDN ccPDP Vote
Survey Results
New ccNSO Member
Youtube
Call for Volunteers
Various Announcements
ccNSO Travel Funding Opens for Buenos Aires Applications: http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-05jul13-en.htm
Open ccNSO Related Public Comment Periods
June 2013
Working Groups
Council
Various Announcements
Open ccNSO Related Public Comment Periods
(OPEN until 26 July 2013) Joint ccNSO-GNSO IDN working Group (JIG) Sraft Final Report on Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-25jun13-en.htm
IDN ccPDP Voting Period
Working Groups
All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during May 2013 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Notes, minutes and transcripts from Working Group Meetings throughout May 2013 may be missing in this summary, due to the timing of their delivery. Please, visit http://www.ccnso.icann.org/calendar regularly for a comprehensive summary.
Council
Minutes ccNSO Council Telephone Conference 14 May 2013: http://ccnso.icann.org/node/39085
New Members
.PY Joins ccNSO as Member nr 137: http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-31may13-en.htm
Various Announcements
Security Study on the Use of Non-Delegated TLDs and Dotless Names commissioned: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-28may13-en.htm
Approved ICANN Board Resolutions from Board meeting 18 May 2013: http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-18may13-en.htm
New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) posts oversight of progress made in consideration of the GAC advice: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-10may13-en.htm
May Update from ICANN's policy department: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/update/update-may13-en.htm
GAC Chair Heather Dryden interviewed on the GAC Beijing Communiqué and new gTLD Advice: http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/kits/video-gac-advice-10may13-en.htm
ICANN replies to questions from Public Forum Session Beijing: http://beijing46.icann.org/meetings/beijing2013/presentation-public-forum-responses-11apr13-en.pdf
ICANN's Fiscal Year 2014 Draft Operating Plan and Budget published: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-10may13-en.htm
ICANN seeks locations for three public meetings in 2015: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-03may13-en.htm
ccNSO Meeting Highlights Beijing: http://ccnso.icann.org/node/38651
ICANN's Fellowship Programme opens for applications to the ICANN Meeting in Buenos Aires 17-21 November 2013: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-01may13en.htm
Open ccNSO Related Public Comment Periods
Input Requested on Implementation of Recommendations from the Report on User Experience Implications of Active Variant TLDs:http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds/active-ux-21mar13-en.pdf (contact ccNSO Secretariat for more information)
Beijing Meeting
ICANN Beijing Meetings page: http://beijing46.icann.org/
ccNSO Meetings page: https://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/beijing
ccNSO Presentations: https://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/beijing/presentations.htm
ccNSO Meetings Audio and Transcripts: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Tech Day Presentations: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/beijing/workshop.htm
IDN ccPDP
Final IDN ccPDP Report: http://ccnso.icann.org/node/37899
Survey Results
Members Meeting Survey Results Day 1: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=XQCcBJ2AeWz3vDc_2fDH8gBXbjBAWQFYmt9YEYSExm7hM_3d
Members Meeting Survey Results Day 2: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=6udc1KWQMRkkQacSeq2nZr_2bivr5MFsH_2b3eXB2RltzhA_3d
Survey on translations of ccNSO related documents: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=e5KkU9s3UUrJ_2fmRQDJcuNgPQHx_2bHG6P2yHP34LkGFs0_3d
Various Announcements
ICANN CEO Blog entry on New York DNS Summit: http://blog.icann.org/2013/04/dns-summit-in-new-york/
ICANN opens Hub Office in Istanbul, Turkey: http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-25apr13-en.pdf
ICANN statistics on L-Root growth and performance measurement: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-03apr13-en.htm
Steve Crocker on Changes to the Public Forum Sessions: http://blog.icann.org/2013/04/changes-to-the-public-forum/
March 2013
Beijing Meeting
Working Groups
All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during March 2013 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Notes, minutes and transcripts from Working Group Meetings throughout March 2013 may be missing in this summary, due to the timing of their delivery. Please, visit http://www.ccnso.icann.org/calendar regularly for a comprehensive summary.
Council
New Members
Call for Volunteers
Various Announcements
Open ccNSO Related Public Comment Periods
Working Groups
All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during February 2013 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Notes, minutes and transcripts from Working Group Meetings throughout February 2013 may be missing in this summary, due to the timing of their delivery. Please, visithttp://www.ccnso.icann.org/calendar regularly for a comprehensive summary.
Council
Extraordinary Call for Nominations to fill vacant seat for Latin American Region: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/node/36659
Minutes ccNSO Council Telephone Conference 12 February 2013: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/minutes-council-12feb13-en.pdf
.FO Joins as ccNSO member 135: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-08feb13-en.htm
Call for Volunteers
(OPEN until 3 March 2013) ICANN Meeting Strategy Working Group: http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/participation/mswg/call-for-volunteers-11feb13-en.htm
All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during January 2013 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Notes, minutes and transcripts from Working Group Meetings throughout January 2013 may be missing in this summary, due to the timing of their delivery.
Please, visithttp://www.ccnso.icann.org/calendar regularly for a comprehensive summary.
Notes ccNSO Election Process Review Telephone Conference 25 January 2013: https://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/notes-erp-25jan13-en.pdf
Transcript Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN Working Group Telephone Conference 22 January 2013: http://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/transcript-jig-22jan13-en.pdf
Call for Volunteers
Invitation from GNSO to Working Group on Inter-Registrar Transfer Policies (individual capacity): http://gnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-25jan13-en.htm
Various Announcements
ICANN Update on Strategic Planning: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-28jan13-en.htm
ICANN Speaker Bureau launched: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-17jan13-en.htm
January Update from ICANN's Policy Department: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/update/update-jan13-en.htm
ICANN's Fellowship Programme opens for Applications for Durban: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-11jan13-en.htm
ICANN Board-Stakeholder Action List: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-08jan13-en.htm
December 2012
Working Groups
All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during December 2012 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Notes, minutes and transcripts from Working Group Meetings throughout December 2012 may be missing in this summary, due to the timing of their delivery. Please, visithttp://www.ccnso.icann.org/calendar regularly for a comprehensive summary.
Notes Programme Working Group Telephone Conference 17 December 2012: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/notes-programme-17dec12-en.pdf
Notes Contact Repository Working Group Telephone Conference 6 December 2012: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/notes-cri-06dec12-en.pdf
ccNSO Council
ccNSO Workplan overall Policy: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/node/36027
Call for Volunteers (OPEN until 14 January 2012) Volunteer Review Team Member on the Second Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT 2): http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-05oct12-en.htm
Various Announcements
ICANN Board Resolutions 20 December 2012: http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-20dec12-en.htm
Update from ICANN’s Policy Department December 2012: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/update/update-dec12-en.htm
IANA consultation on Secure Notification Process: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-12dec12-en.htm
Fadi Chehadé blog post on the WCIT meeting: http://blog.icann.org/2012/12/wcit-in-conclusion/
Fadi Chechadé´s speech at WCIT Opening Ceremony, Dubai: http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/kits/video-chehade-wcit-03dec12-en.htm
ALAC Whitepaper on "Making ICANN Relevant, Responsive and Respected": http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/at-large-r3-white-paper-20nov12
Working Groups
All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during November 2012 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Notes, minutes and transcripts from Working Group Meetings throughout November 2012 may bemissing in this summary, due to the timing of their delivery. Please, visithttp://www.ccnso.icann.org/calendar regularly for a comprehensive summary.
ccNSO Council
Minutes Council Telephone Conference 20 November 2012: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/minutes-council-20nov12-en.pdf
Nomination and Election Report 2013 Council:http://www.ccnso.icann.org/node/35701
Nomination and Election Report Extraordinary Council Elections European Region: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/node/35699
Call for Volunteers
(OPEN until 14 January 2012) Volunteer Review Team Member on the Second Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT 2): http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-05oct12-en.htm
Various Announcements
ICANN Board New gTLD Programme Committee approves resolutions to provide interim Domain Name protections to NGOs and IGOs: http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-28nov12-en.pdf
ICANN appoints new Vice Presidents for Stakeholder Engagement: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-28nov12-en.htm
ICANN at WCIT meeting in Dubai: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-28nov12-en.htm
GAC List of Early Warnings to new gTLD Strings Applications: https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/GAC+Early+Warnings
November update from ICANN’s Policy Department: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/update/update-nov12-en.htm
Kurt Pritz resigns as ICANN Chief Strategy Officer: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-15nov12-en.htm
NomCom seeks Statements of Interest and candidate recommendations for key leadership positions within ICANN: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-07nov12-en.htm
Submit your local events in online form: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/cctlds
ICANN press release on IGF Azerbaijan: http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-01nov12-en.pdf
Working Groups
All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during October 2012 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Notes, minutes and transcripts from Working Group Meetings throughout October 2012 may be missing in this summary, due to the timing of their delivery. Please, visit http://www.ccnso.icann.org/calendar regularly for a comprehensive summary.
ICANN Meeting Toronto
ccNSO Meeting Highlights Toronto: http://ccnso.icann.org/node/35107
ccNSO Members Meeting Presentations: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/toronto/presentations.htm
Tech Day Presentations: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/meetings/toronto/workshop.htm
Transcripts: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/meetings/toronto/transcripts.htm
ccNSO Members Meeting Evaluation 16-17 October 2012: http://ccnso.icann.org/node/3511
Youtube Contributions
ccNSO @ ICANN Toronto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDuy-j0AGKs&list=UUGM1tyObFr-soYQZmR9oeJQ&index=1&feature=plcp
ccNSO Council
Elections to the ccNSO Council Launched: http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-28oct12-en.htm
ccNSO Council Nomination Period Results: http://forum.icann.org/lists/ccnso-nominations/
New ccNSO Members
.GR (Greece) Joins as ccNSO Member 134: http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-17oct12-en.htm
Call for Volunteers
GNSO: Protection of Certain International Organisation names in all GTLDs: http://gnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-29oct12-en.htm
GNSO Thick WHOIS PDP Working Group: http://gnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-23oct12-en.htm
(OPEN until 5 December 2012) Volunteer Review Team Member on the Second Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT 2): http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-05oct12-en.htm
(CLOSED) Volunteers to Cross-Community Principles Development Working Group: http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-11oct12-en.htm
Various Announcements
ICANN Press Release on Increased Presence and Participation Initiative in Africa: http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-16oct12-en.pdf
Update from ICANN’s Policy Department: http://ccnso.icann.org/node/34707
ICANN FY12 Audited Financial Statements: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-08oct12-en.htm
Yrjö Länsipuro appointed 2012 NomCom Chair; Cheryl Langdon-Orr Chair-Elect: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-08oct12-en.htm
ICANN Consolidated Meeting Strategy Proposal: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-02oct12-en.htm
Working Groups
All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during September 2012 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Notes, minutes and transcripts from Working Group Meetings throughout September 2012 may be missing in this summary, due to the timing of their delivery. Please, visit http://www.ccnso.icann.org/calendar regularly for a comprehensive summary.
ccNSO Council
Various Announcements
Working Groups
All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during August 2012 are available at:http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Notes, minutes and transcripts from Working Group Meetings throughout August 2012 may be missing in this summary, due to the timing of their delivery. Please, visit http://www.ccnso.icann.org/calendar regularly for a comprehensive summary.
Call for Volunteers
(OPEN until 7 September 2012) Call for ccNSO Representative to the NomCom: http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-31aug12-en.htm
Working Groups
All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during May 2012 are available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Notes, minutes and transcripts from Working Group Meetings throughout May 2012 may be missing in this summary, due to the timing of their delivery. Please, visithttp://www.ccnso.icann.org/calendar regularly for a comprehensive summary.
Council
Minutes Council Telephone Conference 8 May 2012: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/node/31443
Recording Council Telephone Conference 8 May 2012: http://audio.icann.org/ccnso/ccnso-council-20120508-en.mp3
New Members
.KM Joins as Newest Member of the ccNSO: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-30may12-en.htm
.IS Joins as Newest Member of the ccNSO: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-18may11-en.htm
.SX Joins as Newest Member of the ccNSO: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-11may11-en.htm
.CW Joins as Newest Member of the ccNSO: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-02may12-en.ht
Surveys (OPEN until 4 June 2012) Survey on ccNSO Wiki: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22FQ2SU6ZPJ
Working Groups
All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during April 2012 are available at:http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
Notes, minutes and transcripts from Working Group Meetings throughout April 2012 may be missing in this summary, due to the timing of their delivery. Please, visit http://www.ccnso.icann.org/calendar regularly for a comprehensive summary.
Call for Volunteers (CLOSED 27 April 2012). Call for Volunteers to ICANN Academy Working Group: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-22apr12-en.htm
New Members
.PS Join as Newest Members of the ccNSO: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-25apr12-en.htm
Council
Minutes ccNSO Council Telephone Conference 17 April 2012: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/node/31167
ccNSO Activity Summary
January 2012
Working Groups
All Mp3 recordings of the various Working Group Telephone Conferences during January 2012 are available at:http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
New Members
.iq joins as newest member of the ccNSO: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-31dec11-en.htm
Various Announcements
ICANN Policy Department Update January 2012: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/policy/update-jan12-en.htm
ICANN Framework FY 13 Budget: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-17jan12-en.htm
ICANN Starts Accepting New gTLD Applications and Posts New Applicant Guidebook: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-11jan12-en.htm
Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN (JIG) Working Group Initial Report on Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs.http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-06jan12-en.htm
ICANN’s Fellowship Programme opens application round for Prague meeting 24 – 29 June 2012:
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-06jan12-en.htm
The list below is build upon the actual list of accredited ALSes and the relation to the region and country.
In the last column you will find, if the ccTLD is a member of ccNSO, the ccTLD extension of the country code and a direct link to the website of that specific ccTLD.
Through this list the existing ALSes can find out if in their country or region their is a ccNSO member and eventually could stimulate them to be part of the ccNSO. Same of course could happen from the ccTLD side, where they could do some promotional work in finding new ALSes joining the ALAC.
List of all ALSes and the presence in the ccNSO memberspace updated till October 2009.
The ccNSO has actually 107 members. (updated 27/9/2010).
New members since Seoul 2009 till September 2010 :
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New ccNSO Guidelines published