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. Maureen Hilyard is currently seeking a replacement to take over during 2018.
Nigel Roberts has proposed his successor. as Chair of the ccPDP Revocation,, having recently been elected by his peers to the ICANN Board. Stephen Deerhake has received great support for this position. Eberhart has stated that he would prefer to remain as Vice Chair.
With the restructuring of InternetNZ, Jay Daley and Debbie Monahan are considering their options with regards to what next? They will both be at the Puerto Rico meeting and will make known then what their decisions will be with regards to their current roles on the Council and in ccNSO working groups.
ccNSO Council discussions at their meeting (7 Dec 11UTC)
Post Abu-Dhabi - 18 Nov - Following an inhouse discussion, ALAC requested support from the ccNSO with regards to how ccTLDs can support those registrants who fear the loss of their domains when they cannot access the internet to renew their registrations - a possible protocol relating to Domain Registration Protection for registrants affected by a major natural disaster. This was agreed to by Katrina and ICANN meeting programme coordinator Alejandra. The joint panel discussion will take place on a ccNSO members meeting day (Tuesday or Weds) at ICANN61 at Puerto Rico on "How to help ccTLD, registrars and registrants in case of severely damaged infrastructure" (or similar). The discussion could involve cctlds who have experienced such a situation; what it means to be cut off from the outside world, and what they did to help; Invite ALAC and other SO/ACs and also RIRs to contribute to the discussion.
Council meeting 1 November 2017
The ccNSO Council mandated and requested the ccNSO Guideline Review Committee (GRC) to review the Operating Standards for specific reviews and to prepare feed-back and input, for submission by Council. The GRC was also mandated and requested to conduct an initial review of the current status of the implementation of the recommendations coming out of the first organizational review of the ccNSO, and inform the Council of its findings.
The ccNSO Council re-appointed Stephen Deerhake, as the ccNSO Representative on the Empowered Community Administration, up and until the end of the ICANN61 meeting,
The ccNSO Council thanked Ching Chiao wholeheartedly for his service on Council over the past 3 years, and wished him the best for his new role on the GNSO Council.
The ccNSO expressed its deep appreciation for the local host and support staff for their hard work to turn ICANN60 into a success.
Finally, the ccNSO Council expressed its deep-felt appreciation and admiration for Dr Steven Crocker for the wise and fair manner in which he has chaired the ICANN Board of Directors and his understanding of the ccTLD community. On behalf of the whole ccTLD community the ccNSO Council wished him all the best during the Board-ccNSO session earlier in the day.
1 Nov - ccNSO members were given opportunity to question the nominees as Board representative for Seat 12. Byron raised the issue about the lack of screening of the Board applicants by the ccNSO. Both nominees were happy to have background checks.carried out.
OCTOBER 2017 CCNSO REPORT
29 October @ Abu Dhabi - Joint ALAC & ccNSO meeting with Katrina ; Agenda included an update of the EPSRP and agreement between SSAC and ccNSO which has been accepted by the Board; Specific Review Process re Operating Standards; CCWG IG Charter review; Work Track 5 subsequent procedures GNSO PSP - modalities for participation; meeting strategy review
Council meeting 19 October
Review of the NomCom appointment to ccNSO Council - following the letter going to the Board and to the NomCom appointee, Katrina had a call with current/new NomCom Chairs who were not aware of the ccNSO recommendations. To ensure that ccNSO requirements are always taken into consideration, there would be a need to change the bylaws, and to have these considerations included there. In other circumstances, ccNSO requirements are just guidance. The ccNSO aims to start the process of adjusting the bylaws. The Council regretted this unpleasant situation and thanked the appointee for her decision to withdraw.
The ccNSO will meet the ALAC on Sunday 5-6pm. The topics will include:
CCWG IG charter review: does the CCWG IG meets it purpose?
Work track 5 new subsequent procedures GPDP: modalities for participation
Meeting Strategy review: general and per SO/AC
Earlier discussions online:
Matters raised:
2. On 31 Aug, Katrina posted the decision by the Joint ccNSO-SSAC Response to the ICANN Board on the EPSRP (Extended Process Similarity Review Panel) issue as proposed by the original working party. One Board member, Ching Chiao, queried why the ccNSO had changed its position on the "lower case prevails" and on risk mitigation - who would have the final say on the risk mitigation plan proposed by each individual IDN ccTLD.
Hiro Hotta responded (1) ccNSO's position on "lower-case-prevails" has not been changed in the course of discussion between Working Party members. The proposed response to the Board clarifies the meaning of "lower-case-prevails" in the CCWG EPSRP final report by itemising the cases - i.e., (a) if only lower case is found to be confusingly similar, the string should not pass (b) if only upper-case is found to be confusingly similar, the applicant will be given a chance to propose measures to mitigate the risk, and (2) Risk mitigation is not a question to the EPSRP but to the overall Fast Track process. EPSRP does not have a final say, because it deals with only string similarity. SSAC does not either, because it only gives advice. I think DNS Stability Panel may be the one that decides Pass/NotPass using the information about string similarity and proposed mitigation measures. The process will be specified in the Fast Track Implementation Plan that ICANN will revise after EPSRP final report is accepted by ICANN Board.
Proposed Resolution
Background
In its letter dated 24 April 2017, the ICANN Board of Directors noted divergent views of the SSAC and ccNSO with respect to the following topics: Interpretation of RFC 6912; On similarity findings, and On mitigation measures. The Board suggested the ccNSO and SSAC collaboratively arrive at conclusions on these 3 issues and requested a joint briefing to further the Board’s understanding of the topic. The ccNSO and SSAC agreed to set up a working party with two members from each group tasked to develop a common position on the 3 topics, if feasible. Both the ccNSO Council and SSAC would approve the document according to their own rules and procedures and then would send and present it to the Board. The Chair of the ccNSO and ccNSO members on the working party were informed that SSAC has adopted the Joint ccNSO SSAC Response to ICANN Board on EPSRP as proposed by the working party.
Decision.
The ccNSO Council supports the observations and recommendations of the working party and adopts the Joint ccNSO-SSAC Response to ICANN Board on EPSRP as proposed by the working party. The ccNSO Council particularly welcomes the proposed changes to section 5.6.3 of the current version of the Fast Track Implementation Plan (https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/idn-cctld-implementation-plan-05nov13-en.pdf ). The ccNSO Council request its Chair to inform the Chair of SSAC accordingly, and jointly submit the Joint Response. The ccNSO Council thanks and congratulates the members of the working party: Suzanne Woolf (SSAC), Jeff Bedser (SSAC), Hiro Hotta (ccNSO), Wafa Dahmani (ccNSO), for their work on the paper and for finding a common position.
This resolution was to be considered adopted by 8 Sept by a majority vote.
3. MH attended the meeting of the ccPDP on Retirement of ccTLDs on 14 Sept @2am (CI time). There were as many apologies as attendees. The meeting was chaired by Eberhard and lasted 15 minutes. No discussion was allowed and participants were referred to the meeting documentation: on 3166 Deletions version 2.pdf ; Scenario discussion of changing status on ISO 3166.pdf ; Work plan ccPDP RET next steps.pdf ; Retirement issues Further discussion then took place on the email list. Most of it relating to some clarification of .su and why it has been reserved rather than retired when the country doesn't exist any more.
Comments: The reserved states only apply to alpha-2 codes which are NOT officially assigned (Jaap); SU is not a retirement. It is an addition to the Extended Reserve like UK and EU (Eberhard); It is a fact that SU hasn’t been retired but I think there is some nuance in the state changes that may be useful to explore.In the context of the ISO 3166 MA status, SU went from assigned, to transitionally reserved (in 1992), to unassigned (in 1997), back to transitionally reserved (when the 50 year period was introduced), and then later to exceptionally reserved. In the context of the ISO 3166-1 standard, it was removed in 1992. (this speaks to the two mode taxonomy Peter Koch raised a few days ago). But it is in the root zone today, so it is clearly not an historical retirement (Kim, IANA)
4. The ccNSO and ALAC plan to meet in Abu Dhabi on Sunday 29 October at 5pm. Topics TBC asap.
AUGUST 2017 ccNSO REPORT
ccNSO Council Meeting held on 24 August 12UTC, Matters raised:
Prior to the Board meeting
JULY 2017 ccNSO REPORT
ccNSO Council Meeting July 20 18:00UTC
At the ccNSO members meeting in Johannesburg the recommendations of the CCWG Use of Country and Territory names to continue work on use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs were discussed and supported. However, the format to continue work is still under community discussion. Awaiting the outcome of that discussion the ccNSO Councils deferred the discussion and adoption of the final paper to this meeting (July 2017)
The ccNSO Council adopted the Final Paper of and supported recommendation 1, 2 and 4:
CSC update (Byron). They have had a couple of meetings this week. (1) The Subcommittee of the CSC is working on remedial action procedures. (2) Last month, PTI met 100% of all of the 63 SLA reporting requirements (since monitoring started in October last year) (3) a review of the survey is ongoing: all are invited to participate in order to highlight things that need improvement, and to recognise what went well. "IANA gets a Gold Star for the month!" (Stephen)
GRC update (Katrina) Expect some new guidelines soon
The GAC takes note of the ccNSO Issue Report regarding the decision of the ccNSO to launch a PDP to address the issues:
1. Policy for retirement of ccTLDs
2. Define mechanisms to ensure predictability and legitimacy of decision related to delegation, transfer, revocation and retirement of ccTLDs.
The GAC recalls its opinion on the Framework of Interpretation WG report in the GAC Communiqué in February 2015 at the Singapore meeting:
The GAC notes the work of the ccNSO FOIWG, and its efforts to provide interpretive clarity to RFC1591. The GAC welcomes the FOIWG’s recognition that, consistent with the GAC’s 2005 Principles, the ultimate authority on public policy issues relating to ccTLDs is the relevant government. As such, nothing in the FOIWG report should be read to limit or constrain applicable law and governmental decisions, or the IANA operator´s ability to act in line with a request made by the relevant government.
Other than the remarks above, the GAC has no further comments at this stage other than that we support the decision of the ccNSO to launch a PDP and the proposed priorities and mechanism to be used.
The GAC will await the formal requests to be involved in the work of the working groups and to provide opinion or advice on the final reports of the working groups.
ccNSOCouncil Meeting: 18 May 12UTC
APRIL 2017 ccNSO Update
Invitation offered by ccNSO for ALAC participation on their PDP WG on Retirement of ccTLDs. Wafa and I have voluteered and other ALAC members may also join in.
ccNSO Council Meeting: Apologies given for non-attendance at the Council meeting due to a conflict with the ALAC Leadership Team meeting at the same time (UTC17.30-19.00)
Council meeting matters discussed (taken from Joke's notes, Council minutes not yet available):
ccNSO COUNCIL MEETING - COPENHAGEN - March 15 5pm
ccNSO Travel funding: ccNSO Council request to increase number travel slots: Background: The ccNSO Council has discussed whether an increase in the number of ccNSO Travel slots is needed. Based on an initial analyses the Council considers that such a request is warranted. As part of the FY 2018 ICANN Budget process, the ccNSO Council intends to submit such a request. To ensure timely submission ( closing date 28 April), the ccNSO Council intends to use the ccNSO Council Statement/ Position procedure (https://ccnso.icann.org/about/guidelines-statements-30mar16-en.pdf) . Decision: The ccNSO Council initiates the ccNSO Council procedure to prepare a submission to the ICANN FY 2018 Budget and/or Operational Plan seeking an increase in the number of ccNSO traveling slots. The ccNSO Council designates Nigel Roberts as lead of the drafting team and request the secretariat to send out a call for volunteers to take part in the drafting team. In preparing the Council Statement the drafting team is requested to propose a reasonable number of traveling slots and the rationale for the proposed number. Byron and Debbie raised the concern that more travel slots may not be warranted seeing as the fees paid to ICANN are less than normal because the ccNSO has not made demands on ICANN for further slots.
CSC Charter review:RySG and ccNSO Council will jointly work on the first review of the charter of the Customer Standing Committee, starting October 2017. To structure the review, the chair met with the chair and vice-chair of the RySG and they agreed on and propose a schedule and principles/terms of reference
ccNSO review: Background: the ccNSO Council received a letter for the chair of the ICANN Board Organizational Effectiveness Committee (OEC), indicating that the ccNSO Council could defer the start of the ccNSO Organizational Review by twelve months. If so it would have to inform the OEC accordingly. Additional procedural steps will be involved, including a public comment period and board approval. Decision: The chair of the ccNSO is requested to inform the chair of the ICANN Board Organizational Effectiveness Committee that the ccNSO requests to defer the start of the ccNSO Organizational Review by twelve months.
FoI Implementation Advisory team: The topic was discussed on the 19 October 2016 Council call. At that call Stephen Deerhake was appointed as member of the Advisory team and Becky Burr indicated she would continue as member. Keith Davidson has now also re-confirmed his commitment to bring the implementation to an end. The membership of the Advisory Team will be revisited if one of the current members steps down.
**All Council members voted in favour of the consent agenda which listed the above decision items.
Agenda item 11- ccNSO Resolutions on ccPDP 3: ccNSO Policy Development Process on introduction of a Review Mechanism and Retirement of country code Top Level Domains
1.Draft Decisions; In accordance with Annex B section 3 and 4 of the ICANN Bylaws, the ccNSO Council decides that:
2.The secretariat is requested to send out a call for volunteers for the first WG, and invite other stakeholders listed in the relevant charter, to participate in the WG in the manner most suited to them.
3.As required under Annex B, the Chair of the ccNSO is requested to formally inform the Chair of the GAC and ask the GAC to advise or provide an opinion.
4.The chair of the ccNSO is requested to recommend the ICANN Board of Directors to defer any decisions pertaining to the retirement of a ccTLD until such a time the policy for the retirement of the ccTLD has been developed following this ccNSO PDP 3 and adopted and implemented by ICANN.
5.The secretariat is requested is publish this resolution as soon as possible and upon publication it becomes effective.
Participation/assistance ccNSO in GAC WG Underserved regions preparing FAQ on delegation, transfer and revocation Resolution: The ccNSO Council expresses its interest to assist and participate the GAC Underserved regions WG to prepare a FAQ and high level informational document to explain procedures around delegation, transfer and recovation of ccTLDs. Once details are better understood the secretariat is requested to send out an appropriate call for volunteers.
Election of Officers: Katrina was again elected as Chair of the Council For Vice Chair: Demi Goetze,and Byron Brown were elected as Vice Chairs.
Next meetings: 3 April 2017, 18.00 UTC; 18 May 2017, 12.00 UTC; June 2017 (f-2-f) to be confirmed, depending on ccNSO meeting schedule at ICANN 59
ccNSO MEETINGS - COPENHAGEN - March 12
ccNSO TLD OPS Workshop – Closed (invitation only) : 9:00-12:15 CET, Room: Hall C1.2
ccNSO Council Preparatory Meeting; Sunday, 12 March | 12:15-13:45 | Hall B4.2; https://participate.icann.org/cph58-hallb42
TLD-OPS Standing Committee; Sunday, 12 March | 13:45-15:00 | Hall B4.1; https://participate.icann.org/cph58-hallb41
Guidelines Review Committee (GRC); Sunday, 12 March | 13:45-15:00 | Hall B4.2; https://participate.icann.org/cph58-hallb412
Strategic Operational Planning Working Group (SOP); Sunday, 12 March | 15:15-16:45 | Hall B4.2; https://participate.icann.org/cph58-hallb412
ccNSO-ALAC MEETING Sunday 12 5pm - agenda https://participate.icann.org/cph58-hallc13 (COPENHAGEN)
Agenda:
EPSRPCCNSO COUNCIL MEETING (9 Feb 2017)
ADMINISTRATION
3 decisions were made between meetings
APPOINTMENTS
COUNCIL ELECTIONS
CCNSO TRAVEL FUNDING
WORKING GROUP UPDATES
COPENHAGEN
January 2017 ccNSO Report
23 January - LATEST NEWS - ccNSO Liaison to the ALAC - There were two candidates - Wafa Dahmani and Ben Fuller. The Council has voted and Wafa has been selected as their ccNSO rep to the ALAC.
CCNSO COUNCIL MEETING (12 Jan 2017)
Intermeeting Council Decisions
Appointments
Adoption Final report and closure WG EPSRP, submission of Final report to the ICANN Board of Directors
Organizational ccNSO Review and timeline.
Update EC AC/ GRC related work
Update Programme WG - Copenhagen meeting
NEXT COUNCIL MEETING
CCNSO COUNCIL MEETING (15 Dec 2016)
Intermeeting Council Decisions
Appointments
Further requests for Volunteers
Review of Council meeting practices
Adoption of the Final Report and closure of the WG EPSRP,
Organisational review of the ccNSO
In Hyderabad - Members, Day 2 (sessions I was able to attend, outside of my ALAC duties)
CCNSO COUNCIL MEETING
Appointments to the Council
Other decisions
Marketplace Health Index Initiative - Mukesh Chulani (ICANN)
Background - launched in 2015- track progress on ICANN objective 2.3 - supports the evolution of domain name marketplace to be robust, stable and trusted. Metrics are being developed in consultation with a community Advisory Panel (40 community members applied to be part of this panel) Consumer Trust initiative differs in that it focuses on the earlier effects of the marketplace; The ITH Initiative - difference is that it looks at objective 2.1 fostering a healthy and resilient ecosystem.
Recent Developments - public comments posted Feb 2016, project plan and draft metrics developed with Advisory Panel, published gTLD Marketplace Health Index for public comment (due Sept 2016); ICANN working to develop next generation metrics in consultation with Advisory Committee; Aim is to finalise metrics by 2017
Sample Beta Metrics - Limited to data could find within ICANN. Intentionis to bild their own metrics.eg total number f jurisdictions with at least one gtld registry operator/registrar
Advisory Panel - role different from other pdp processes - wanted a council of community and experts. helps to refine metrics and definitions. Substantial changes need public comment. include registries, registrars, local isoc chapter members, policy, legal business etc expertise.
ALSO, presentations by Irina Danielle (.ru), Satistical monitoring system; ; Registration trends and marketing initiatives for .in (Rajiv Bansal, NIXI); Registrar view of the ccTLD Space, Ulrich Retzlaff (1&1 Internet).
Regional Organisation Updates - Leonid Todorov
Barrack Otieno (AFTLD); Peter van Roste (CENTR), Andres Piazza (LACTLD); Leonid Todorov (APTLD) - encouraging dialogue among members - gathering momentum within Asian ccTLDs, offers Fellowships for underserved areas - supports regional initiatives (APIGA, APSIG), promoting their activities online; signed MOU with sister organisations in Marrakech; as well as ISOC, APRALO and ITU. Communication and capacity building a focus. Wants to do webinars, focus on South Pacific ccTLDs
Maureen and Katrina at the ISOC@ICANN event including headwear and fortunetelling
Guidelines Review Committee - Katrina Sataki
CCWG updates - Leon Sanchez and Thomas - Workstream 2
Sept 30 IANA Functions contract between IANN and the US National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA) expired. Therefore our commitment has moved to furtuer accountability in Work Stream 2. Topics include: Diversity, Human Rights, Jursidiction, SO/AC Accountability, Ombudsman, Transparency , Staff Accountability, Guidelines for standards of good faith for removing an ICANN Board Directors; and Reviewing the CEP
Cheryl Langdon Orr - SO/AC Accountability update
4 tracks - SOs/ ACs effectiveness; Track 2 - evaluating the proposal Mutual Accountability Roundtable; Track 3 Developing a detailed work plan; Track 4: Assessing whether the Independent Review Process (IRP) would also be applicable to SO and AC activities.
Board-ccNSO meeting
Debbie Monahan raised concerns relating to the venues of ICANN meetings, in particular Abu Dhabi, Hyderabad or other venues where there is a concern about personal safety. She also raised the issue of venues that have visa application issues. This topic was raised again later by Stephen Deerhake who did not feel that the matter had been dealt with, with regards to the seriousness of the issue as presented by Debbie; Katrina then stated that it was a possibility that the ccNSO might opt out of the Abu Dhabi meeting; Other matters discussed included a report by Annabeth to the Board giving an update on the CCWG on the use of country and territory names; Giovanni gave a report on the EPSRP; Byron then explained what resources the ccNSO would expect from the Board to enable the to effectively carry out their work, for example for the CSC. He also supported Debbie and Stephen with respect to a trust and transparency viewpoint - he asked that the Board be more open in their activities rather being mainly closed with occasional openness.
Members session 1, Day 1 - Working Group updates
*The Cross-Community Working Group on the Use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs (CWG-UCTN) presented summaries of two reports: a Progress report and its draft Interim report. Based on the discussions to date, community input and the discussions in Helsinki (ICANN55), the Working Group concluded that for various reasons a harmonised framework for the use of country, territory and other geographic names is not feasible. Annebeth initiated discussions at the members' meeting. General feeling from the floor was a reluctance to leave a decision relating to ccTLDs up to a GNSO PDP. Arguments included: a ccTLD is not a generic TLD and does not follow g-rules; gTLDs are run in competition with each other which is not the objective of a ccTLD. Temperature of the room - should this matter become part of a gNSO PDP? - very RED (no) Establish another CCWG to continue to work on this issue? - very GREEN = support.
*EPSRP (Extended Process Similarity Review Panel) Update - In June 2015 the ICANN Board of Directors requested the ccNSO, in consultation with other stakeholders, including GAC and SSAC, to provide further guidance on and refinement of the methodology of second string similarity review process, including the interpretation of its split recommendations, to be applied to the relevant current and subsequent cases in the IDN ccTLD Fast Track process, as well as to inform the proposed policy for the selection of the IDN ccTLD strings. In October 2015, the ccNSO established a working group with participants from the ccTLD community and GAC. In July 2016, the EPSRP working group (+1, Wafa is part of this group) sought feedback, via a public comment proceeding, on its proposed guidelines for the methodology on the second string similarity review process, including the interpretation of split recommendation. Giovanni Seppia presented the final EPSRP report at the members' meeting.
*TLD-OPS - technical incident response community for input from ccTLDs - mailing list acts as has a contact repository, and is a hub for exchanging security alerts. 156 members, 60% of all ccTLDs - gaps in LAC and AF and AP regions, although has assisted ccTLDs from these regions with security alerts. (Jacques Latour). Goals for ICANN58 is to increase membership, and to organise a TLD-OPS workshop to discuss how cctlds can collaboratively detect and mitigate DDos attacks.
*PTI update (Public Technical Identifiers) a new affiliate of ICANN that is responsible for performing the IANA Services on behalf of ICANN. PTI does not set policy - it implements agreed policies and principles developed by the ICANN's mutistakeholder community. Presentation was by Elise Gerich (President of PTI). Any issues related to IANA can be directed to iana.org as previously.
Preparation for Hyderabad
*Preparation for the ccNSO Council meeting at Hyderabad includes:
The final report of the WG EPSPRP; the analysis of the SSAC comment (SSAC 64); Overview of the evolution of IDN Fast Track
Reports and timelines related to the election of candidates for the ICANN Board and the ccNSO Council
There has been one nomination for the ccNSO Board Seat 11 - Chris Disspain. Nominations have now closed. Chris has accepted the nomination and now readies himself for a Q&A session with ccNSO members. There have already been several questions posed via email.
MH preparing a report from ALAC to the ccNSO Council until they appoint a ccNSO liaison.
*ccNSO council-related sessions - for your information
Friday, 4 November
Joint session ALAC / ccNSO Council; 17:00-18:30 IST local time; Adobe Connect: https://participate.icann.org/hyd57-hall1; Location: Hall 1
*October ccNSO Activity summary
3 October - Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Country/Territory Names as TLDs Telephone Conference – transcript and recording
10 October – Guidelines Review Committee Telephone Conference – recording - wiki space
17 October - Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Country/Territory Names as TLDs Telephone Conference – transcript and recording
24 October – Guidelines Review Committee Telephone Conference – recording – wiki space
24 October – TLD Ops Standing Committee - recording
The ccNSO EPSRP Working Group final report can be viewed here
ccNSO Council:
ccNSO Council preparation material and output can be found here: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/minutes.htm
ccNSO Council Decisions and Resolutions: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/decisions-resolutions.htm
* ccNSO Council Meeting (13 October). Decisions made
* I submitted a report on behalf of the ALAC to the ccNSO Council (until they get a volunteer to take on the role of ccNSO liaison to the ALAC). It mainly featured ALAC preparations for Hyderabad and recent policy discussions. Was very kindly congratulated by Katrina and the Council on my reappointment as the ALAC Liaison.
* ccNSO topics for the Board in Hyderabad include: (1) How locations for the ICANN meeting are selected - Given all the trouble with visa and similar logistical issues for ICANN57, considering the choice of Abu Dhabi where women do not enjoy the freedoms of other places and where the females attending may have issues walking the streets by themselves, how will the Board try to avoid these and similar issues in future? (2) The use of Country and Territory names in future gTLD rounds. The CCWG dealing with this topic is preparing their final report and will conclude that it is not feasible to develop a harmonised framewpork supported by all interested stakeholders. Is the Board inclined to keep the status quo (from the applicant guidebook) or will it yield to the wishes of the GNSO? (3) ccNSO Submission Guidance on how to deal with split decision Extended Process Similarity Review Panel. The ccNSO WG EPSRP has submitted its recommended course of action. The ccNSO Council will take a decision in Hyderabad whether to adopt and provide guidance to the Board on how to deal with “split decision” as requested by the Board. Background: In June 2015 the Board requested the ccNSO to provide guidance on a very specific issue following the 3rd review Fast Track process. Request was also to consult with community and in particular GAC and SSAC. WG developed and submitted its advice to the ccNSO Council. GAC, ALAC and Verisign support the advice. SSAC suggests that the Board does not adopt the advice, but intitiate another review instead.
* Chris Disspain has accepted the nomination by a number of ccNSO members to stand again as the ccNSO-elected Board member He has offered to send his 360-degree review by his colleagues on the Board to the Council.
* Joke has requested SOIs from any observers of liaisons on the ccNSO Council for the ccNSO website. I have suggested that she uses my ALAC SOI as the ALAC liaison.
* Stephen Deerhake has been appointed to serve as the ccNSO’s representative on the Empowered Community Administration under Article 6 of the Bylaws adopted by the Board on 27 May 2016.
*(1 Oct) Latest on review of the March 2015 ccNSO decision regarding being a chartered organisation of the the Auction Proceeds CCWG, Katrina has made the following statement to the CCWG Co-Chairs: After careful consideration of all arguments, taking into account the importance of the use of the auction funds and contribution that ccTLDs with experience in comparable projects could bring to the cross-community working group, I am pleased to inform you that the ccNSO now anticipates to participate in the cross-community working group as a chartering organization and will consider the charter for adoption at its upcoming meeting on 13 October 2016.
* The term of office for current Board member Chris Disspain (Seat 11) comes to an end at the end of 2017. The Council has commenced their Board appointment process which has initiated much discussion on the email list since nominations opened on the 27 Sept and will close on the 18 Oct..
* One of the current discussions among the Council is to decide whether the ccNSO should become a chartered member of the Auction proceeds cross-community working group. In March 2015, the Council decided not to participate in the WG, but current pressure from within the Council is attempting to change this stance. Katrina and Demi support the status quo. Key supporters for ccTLDs being included on this working group as chartered members and therefore being a part of the decision making around the use of Auction proceeds include Becky Burr who proposed as an example, that the funds could be used for capacity building for developing nations' ccTLD managers. Another supporter was Chris Disspain who added that an ICANN wide Foundation or or Fund is a possible/likely outcome and ccTLD input into the scope of such an entity would be extremely valuable. He also added that being a part ‘owner’ of the mechanism or entity that results from this CCWG would be of benefit to ccTLDs in the future. This was supported by Souleymane Oumtanaga. A very strong submission was made to the ccNSO by Leonid Todorov, the APTLD General Manager, also supporting ccTLD inclusion on this WG. His views were based on his experiences in Russia, but he advised that being part of the decision-making process would enable the ccTLD community to exercise due control over the funds and ensure a much-needed level of transparency coupled with equal treatment for all across the multistakeholder community.
*Assuming the IANA Stewardship Transition will take place and the ICANN Bylaws become effective on 1 October 2016, the ccNSO will be one of the Decisional Participants. The ccNSO will act through its Chair or such other person as may be designated by the CCNSO. Katrina has expressed a strong preference that another Councillor take on the role as a member of the Empowered Community Administration. Therefore volunteers are being called from among the Council to take on this 12 month role.
* Katrina is currently the interim member of the Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC), which has been established a part of the IANA Stewardship Transition. A call for a volunteer to take on the role as the ccNSO appointed member on the RZERC from the ccTLD community and to replace replace Katrina. Three volunteers have applied and an election process will take place soon.
* Maarten Simon, .nl has been nominated as the ccTLD representative on the CCG for at least one (1) year term.
* HYDERABAD The ccNSO Members’ Meeting takes place on Sunday 6 and Monday 7 November, in Hyderabad, India. Current version of the ccNSO Members’ Meeting schedule for ICANN57 is at: https://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/hyderabad57/agenda.htm. The meeting with the ALAC is still on for Friday 4 Nov @ 5.00pm (although it is also on at the same time as an "At-Large Leadership Working Session"). Katrina, Alejandra and I will work on a short agenda.
* UPDATE (9 Sept): The ccNSO Council have submitted a comment on the IANA Naming Function Agreement . In summary, the Council "fully supports the amendments of the proposed IANA Naming Function Agreement as proposed by the CWG-Stewardship to resolve the issues identified by the ccTLD members and participants. The ccNSO Council trusts these suggested changes will be included in the final and effective version of the IANA Naming Function Agreement".
*The ccNSO Council has appointed Rosalìa Morales (.cr), as a ccNSO rep on the CCWG on the Use of Country and Territory names as TLDs
*IANA Naming Function Agreement. (unfortunately I missed the last ISTP call - 5 Sept). Bart has provided a suggestion for a direction of travel for a basic ccNSO Council statement: the ccNSO Council is aware that draft of IANA Naming Functions Agreement as published for public comments has caused comments by the ccTLD members and participants on the CWG. The Council is also aware that these comments were extensively discussed with Implementation team and full CWG, and assuming that, as agreed, all comments will be implemented as agreed in the agreement, Council welcomes and supports the outcome of those internal deliberations of the CWG. (A formal statement has since been made)
CCNSO Council meeting outcomes (Sept 1)
*ccNSO has established operational guidelines for the selection processes for Board seats 11 and 12, the ccNSO rep on the RootZone Evolution Review Committee, and the ccNZSO rep on the Empowered Community Administration Committee.
*Regular Council elections will start soon to elect five regional councillors (current positions expire in March 2017); there is a current vacancy due to the resignation of Vika Mpisane (AF) which will also be held during this process
*Hyderabad - programme of cross constituency meetings have been drafted. The meeting with the ALAC has been organised for Friday 4 November @ 1700-1800; the ccNSO Council meeting will be on Monday 7 November @ 1700
*Due to the recent resignation of Ron Sherwood as the ccNSO Liaison to the ALAC - I gave a brief report to the ccNSO - written as my audio was playing up. The ccNSO will seek a liaison replacement soon.
*IANA Naming Function Agreement (between ICANN and Public Technical Identifiers - PTI) currently under discussion - certain sections were considered by some to be contrary to the interests of the ccNSO community
August 2016 ccNSO Update
*Next ccNSO Council meeting is September 1, 1100UTC
*ccNSO will have an interim representative on the Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC) until Hyderabad when they will commence their selection process according to ccNSO internal procedures before Sept 30. The interim representative will be the Council Chair, Katrina.
*Alejandro Reynaso presented the results of the feedback from members about the ccNSO programme in Helsinki. The feedback will provide information which will guide the programming for the Hyderabad meetings. The top 3 most informative sessions were: (1) the legal session, (2) ccTLD News session and (3) operational session and marketing session. Topics that members wanted to include in ICANN57 are: marketing and an update on the GNSO project to create generic country domains. Members got value from attending ccNSO@ICANN meetings (mainly self-funded) because: they appreciated the contribution from volunteers to work on WGs; Learning about what other managers are up to; Sharing information about the ongoing discussions within ICANN; and Meeting everyone at the ccNSO cocktail
*A request has gone out for more ccTLD managers to participate in the IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal (ISTP) call in order to seek active participation from a broader group of people who might be actively involved in post-IANA transition work. Currently the team is a small group off ccTLD members already closely involved in the implementation of the CWG-Stewardship Proposal (Lise, Allan, Martin, Maarten and Paul).
*On 5 August, Jörg Schweiger was selected as the ccNSO representative to the FY2017 NomCom
*The ccNSO Meetings Programme Working Group has developed the first version of the draft agenda of the ccNSO Members’ Days in Hyderabad - http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/hyderabad57/agenda.htm. Although details are likely to change, the programme consists of:
Friday 4 November: ccNSO working group face-to-face meetings
Saturday 5 November: Tech Day
Sunday 6 November: ccNSO Member's meeting, day 1
Monday 7 November: ccNSO Member's meeting, day 2
Monday 7 November, 5 pm local: ccNSO Council meeting
*On August 2, the ccNSO and GNSO coordination call finalised approval of the full slate for the Customer Standing Committee (CSC). Both groups agreed that for future rounds of CSC slate formations, sufficient time be allowed to pursue greater diversity during the selection process. The ccNSO community will be informed of the joint ccNSO-GNSO statement to the wider community, after it has been endorsed at the next Council meeting.
*Council member, Vika Mpisane, has given notice of his intention to resign from the Council due to his non-ICANN commitments which he felt had intruded on his ability to fully participate in his ccNSO Council responsibilities. All Council members expressed their regret at this decision given Vika's major contributions to the work of the ccNSO over the years. Vika assured the Council that he would continue to remain as an active member of the ccNSO. The discussion among Councillors mainly focused on the process required to fill the position half way during the term. Katrina suggested that due to the heavy workload of the Council at the moment, a formal election of his replacement could be left until the next General election is actually due. This was given support by the rest of the Council along with an additional recommendation which addressed "respect for the process".
*A membership application has been received from .by (Belarus) and is being considered by members
*Transcripts and Adobe Connect recordings from ccNSO-related meetings in Helsinki: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/helsinki56/transcripts.htm
* The CSC Selection Committee participated on the coordination call with the Selection Committee of the RySG and they have made their selections of people to serve on the CSC. The four members of the CSC are: Byron Holland, ccNSO, Elaine Pruis, RySG, Jay Daley, ccNSO and Kal Feher, RySG
*The ccNSO is still seeking nominations for their FY17 Nom Com member. Candidates need not be Council members and can self-nominate as long as they are ccTLD managers. The nominations close on the 29th July so that the Council can vote and the successful candidate be available for the meeting in Hyderabad.
*Two members for the CCWG Accountability are needed to address accountability topics for Workstream 2 (also 29th July closing date), and volunteers are also being sought for the Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency of the DNS Review Team (SSR2-RT).
*Council minutes from the meeting in Helsinki
*Council members in Helsinki and Andrew Molivurae (from Vanuatu) making his presentation on the ccNSO Members Day.
UPDATES FROM HELSINKI:
*Member engagement: Travel funding applications for ICANN 57 in Hyderabad are open and their request for applications highlighted a difference between our organisations. ccNSO use their travel funding to reward engagement. (They get their funds from their members so that there is a real expectation of mutual benefit). The ALAC does not have any such fund which can similarly reward ALS members who are not currently in a funded position yet put in a lot of effort into the work of At-Large. In the ccNSO, an important criteria for travel is active engagement in the work of the ccNSO which could include active participation in a ccNSO working group, a presentation at the ccNSO member meeting, or other engagements that strengthen the activities of the ccNSO. Perhaps when we are looking at ways to encourage engagement with our ALSes we too could seek a similar fund to get hardworking ALS members to ICANN meetings.
*Customer Standing Committee: At the Council meeting, the ccNSO Council has launched a call for expressions of interest for its membership of the CSC. The ccNSO has a Guideline Review Committee (GRC) which develops internal procedures, for example, guidelines for the membership and expectations of working groups. There is one already specifically for the CSC (http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/guidelines-ccnso-csc-16jun16-en.pdf), so that the call for applicants is a procedural formality. There is some consideration being given for the GRC to broaden its mandate to include some internal procedures related to the new ICANN bylaws which will require the implementation of new processes and procedures. By having these guidelines in place, any subsequent requests for membership of both internal and external committees are dealt with much more smoothly, so that the discussions that they had within the council meeting really just sorted out some of the details. Similarly for another recent request for a member of the Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC).
The ALAC does not have formal guidelines, but to my mind these would have prevented the disorganized session we had in trying to formalize a guideline for ourselves. There is also still an issue about active and not so active working groups that still needs to be resolved. A proper ALAC procedural working group to sort these issues out, outside of the time allocated for other important face to face session discussions, would improve what should be normal procedural processes.
Follow-on to the CSC: ccNSO have been notified of the Registries Steering Group *RySG) and their 4 nominations (for 2 members and 2 alternates). These are:
*CCWG-Accountability: A letter was received from the co-Chair of the ccWG Accountability accompanied by a document from the Board’s finance committee. Comment made by Becky Burr: “Everybody has seen the reports on CWG WS1 and various community members expressed alarm about the pace of spending associated with this. A huge amount of complex work was done. Significant amount of legal work was required. New process for community, with big budget implications. There was no formal finance or budgeting controls at one point in time, but this is an effort to change that.” This was accepted by the Council.
*ccNSO Council survey: during the meeting, the ccNSO were presented with the results of the survey and discussed the next steps with regards to meeting community expectations. Katrina would like to look into ways of improving communication with members Further discussion at the next meeting.
GAC survey of their ccTLDs – there were only 23 responses. Waiting for some feedback from Alejandra
*Pacific participation: It was good to see Vanuatu participating in a ccTLD report at one of their Members Day sessions. It would be good to get some feedback from Pacific cctlds to support the surveys carried out by both the ccNSO and the GAC. Probably do some followup. Pua could followup with the GAC survey through the PICISOC list.
*New member: The ccNSO welcomes .dk, the ccTLD for Denmark as its 160th member.
At the Council meeting of 14 May the following resolutions were passed as action items from the meeting of 14 April. They included the need:
for openness and transparency of face-to face meetings. The Background to this discussion was as follows: Transparency requires that, ICANN¹s constituent bodies operate in an open and transparent manner. This does not only imply that recordings, transcripts of meetings, if made, and notes and minutes are made publicly available after meetings, but also that face-to-face meetings are open to observers, and will be listed as such. However, some matters do justify confidentiality and excluding the public, such as (example list): Employment matters; Discussion on persons; Contractual matters; Any proceedings of the Ombudsman; Consideration of any legal advice that would involve a risk of waiver of privilege if the meeting were not closed; any item where there has been a request to deal with it in confidence and where that request is granted. Further, it is self-evident that for meetings of Council, WGs, Committees, only appointed members or others, listed as liaisons or other form of formal participant may actively contribute, but the presumption has to be, that all meetings, including Council prep, WG meetings, have to be open to observers i.e. to people who want to listen to and watch the proceedings of the meeting in real time, without participating.
Draft Resolution proposed to the Council:
1. All face-to face ccNSO, ccNSO Council or ccNSO chartered Working group meetings shall be open to observers, unless a majority of the voting members present at the meeting resolve to close the meeting due to the confidential nature of the topic being dealt with. If so, that part of the meeting shall only be closed to observers for the duration of the deliberations of the confidential item.
2. The ccNSO Guideline Review Committee is requested to update the relevant Guidelines accordingly, and submit them to Council for adoption.
3. The chair of the Council is requested to inform the chairs of the ccNSO chartered WG’s of this Council decision.
3. The formal Council meeting will be held in Helsinki on Thursday 30 June 2016, 10.45 - 12.00pm
The Proposed Draft ICANN Bylaws, dated 20 April 2016 ("Proposed Draft Bylaws"). In response to the lawyers Holly J. Gregory and Rosemary E. Fei, stating: "We believe that the Proposed Draft Bylaws are consistent with the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (“CCWG-Accountability”) Supplemental Final Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations (23 February 2016) relating to the IANA Stewardship Transition. Accordingly, we recommend that the Proposed Draft Bylaws be posted to the community for review." Stephen Deerhake stated that " Of immediate interest to us are Article 10 ("Country-code Names Supporting Organization"), Annex B ("CCNSO Policy-development process"), and Annex C ("The Scope of the ccNSO"). Additionally, we will have to at a minimum also review Articles 18 and 19 ("IANA naming function and review" and "IANA naming function separation process"), as well as Article 12 ("Advisory Committees"). At the end of the day, we have a lot of reading ahead of us, as in my opinion at the very least we owe our Community a close and comprehensive scrutiny of the entire document during a proper review period. Lastly, I wish to express my sincere appreciation for all the incredible work that our CCWG members (and rapporteur) did to get us to this day, and most especially, a big thank you to Becky who has done so much, over so many years, to get us to this moment". Stephen also provided the link to the IAB comments on the Draft New ICANN Bylaws
Joke Braeken has published the draft agenda for the ccNSO Members Days, to be held on Tuesday June 28 and Wednesday June 29;in Helsinki and the ccNSO schedule for ICANN56 here: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/helsinki56/agenda.htm The evaluation from the previous ccNSO Members meeting held in Marrakech can be consulted here: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/marrakech55/evaluation.htm
*ccNSO Council Meeting (14 April, 1am for me) - Katrina's first meeting as the new Council Chair
* Analysis of ccNSO membership since 2003. Asia Pacific shows regular growth with respect to annual membership applications. They now have 158 members, with Barbados (.bb) being its newest member.
* At the next Council Meeting (14 April) the ccNSO will be discussing their draft strategic plan FY2016-2018 and its portfolio coverage for this timeframe. This is a very clear indication of what the ccNSO proposes during the FY16-18 time frame and with regards to Working groups and their timeframes (something we ourselves are working on). As part of our At Large Review, the ALAC should also be preparing similar overviews of ALAC objectives and implementation activities. If each member on the ALAC had a specific responsibility for which they were to report, this would make measures more easy to achieve for the ALAC AGM report.
* The Council is currently discussing its travel slots to ICANN meetings - they have 12 slots per meeting: 3 for Nom Comm members, 5 for elected regional reps (1 for each meeting - they decide among themselves who is allocated which meeting slot), and 4 for non-Council members allocated as per active participation and leadership within ccNSO. A travel committee makes a recommendation for Council. I am assuming that if the ALAC can access and control additional travel slots that the ALT will make the recommendations for endorsement by the ALAC.
* Congratulations to Becky Burr for getting onto the ICANN Board of Trustees
* Here are the final minutes of the last ccNSO Council meeting (9 March in Marrakech) and other What's New at ccNSO items (Meeting satisfaction survey results, ccNSO Summary of March activities and ccNSO Guidelines CommitteeGuidelines and Charters)
*The ccNSO is seeking feedback on its social media strategy
*ccNSO Council Meeting Resolutions (Marrakech, 9 March 2016)
1. The ccNSO Council notes and welcomes the exemplary, long and intensive consultation efforts and process the CCWG-Accountability went through to gather input and feed-back from the community and wholeheartedly thanks all members and participants of the CCWG-Accountability for all their hard work.
2. Taking into account the outreach, engagement and consultation efforts of the CCWG-Accountability, the outreach and engagement efforts of the ccNSO appointed members on this CCWG, and those of the ccNSO and Regional ccTLD Organizations, and taking into account the extensive consultation of the ccTLD community present in Buenos Aires (ICANN 53), Dublin (ICANN 54) and Marrakesh (ICANN 55) the ccNSO Council is in a position to take a decision on whether it supports the submission of the CWG-Stewardship Proposals to the ICG.
3. The ccNSO Council notes that the CWG-Stewardship has indicated that the recommendations contained in the Final Supplemental Report meet the conditional requirements of the CWG-Stewardship.
4. The ccNSO Council notes the <level of support> for the Proposals contained in the Final Supplemental CCWG- Accountability Work Stream 1 Report by the ccTLD community present at the Marrakesh meeting.
5. Taking into account the <level of support> by the ccTLDs present for CCWG-Accountabilities Proposals contained in its Final Supplemental Report, the ccNSO Council < insert level ( broadly, but not unanimously/ unanimously)> supports submission of the CCWG-Accountability Final Supplementary Report Work Stream 1 to the ICANN Board of Directors.
6. Further the ccNSO Council supports that the CCWG-Accountability oversees the implementation of its Work Stream 1 Recommendations and thus allowing the CCWG-Accountability to provide input and clarifications to questions or issues arise with respect to the implementation of its recommendations.
7. The ccNSO Council requests the secretariat to publish this resolution as soon as possible after the closure of this ccNSO Council meeting. In accordance to the rules of the ccNSO (http://ccnso.icann.org/about/ccnso-rules-dec04-en.pdf), the decisions in this resolution will become effective seven days after publication of these decisions by the Council. For the interim, the chair of the ccNSO is requested to inform the co-chairs of the CCWG-Accountability of this decision of the ccNSO Council under the assumption the decision is effective and subsequently, after seven (7) days, whether the decision has become effective.
8. The ccNSO Council request and mandates the ccNSO Guideline Review Committee to do all what is necessary including, but not limited to, reaching out and coordinating with other SO/AC s and ICANN staff to develop all processes and procedures the CWG-Stewardship suggested the ccNSO should implement. The GRC is requested to present these rules and procedures to the ccTLDs present at the ccNSO meeting at ICANN 56 and for adoption by the ccNSO Council
9. The secretariat is requested is to seek additional volunteers for the GRC as soon as possible, in particular community members who actively participated in the development of the CWG-Stewardship Proposal. The ccNSO Council will appoint these additional members as soon as feasible.
10. The ccNSO Council extends the appointment of the current below listed members of the TLD-OPS steering committee for one year, up and until the ccNSO Council meeting at ICANN 58: Frederico Neves (.br); Jacques Latour (.ca); Erwin Lansing (.eu); Ali Haji Mahdi( .km); Cristian Hesselman (.nl); Abibu Ntahigiye (.tz)
11. The secretariat is requested to prepare a call for volunteers jointly with the TLD-OPS Steering Committee and then to send out the call for volunteers on the appropriate email-list to seek one additional volunteer from the Asian Pacific region to serve on the TLD-OPS Steering Committee.
12.
8.1 The ccNSO Council selects Katrina Sataki to serve as the chair of the ccNSO, for the term of one year, up until the end of the in person ccNSO Council meeting at ICANN 58.
8.2 Selection of vice-chair(s) of the ccNSO Selection of vice-chair 1 (replacement of Keith Davidson)
The ccNSO Council selects Byron Holland to serve as vice-chair 1 of the ccNSO up and until the end of the in person ccNSO Council meeting at ICANN 58.
Selection of Vice – Chair 2 (end of term Katrina Sataki)
The ccNSO Council selects Demi Getchsko to serve as vice-chair 2 of the ccNSO up and until the end of the in person ccNSO Council meeting at ICANN 58.
Marrakesh updates
The agenda of the ccNSO Members meeting http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/marrakech55/agenda.htm for latest version.
An overview of all ccNSO sessions taking place at the occasion of ICANN55 in Marrakech: Click here for a table-view, or list-view.
ccNSO Guidelines Review Committee have been updating the ccNSO Guidelines to member and council meetings, selection of Board and Council members, writing community statements, assigning roles and responsibilities, etc. The community is asked to check the links to familiarise themselves with the work being done by the ccNSO. Guidelines and Review Committee Wiki Page.
ccNSO Council: meeting - 18 Feb - Apologies given due to attendance of APTLD meeting @APRICOT in Auckland, New Zealand
Council Telephone Conference – recording
ccNSO Council preparation material and output can be found here: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/minutes.htm
ccNSO Council Decisions and Resolutions: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/decisions-resolutions.htm
Main activities during the month in preparation for Marrakech
CCWG Discussion meeting - 23 December - outcomes
1) No formal resolution was to be required
2) The ccNSO Council would provide input to the CCWG, which would request greater clarity on key issues as well as adherence to the requirements of the CWG. Further, that the ccNSO was generally supportive of the "direction of travel".
3) This input was to be summarized by the Chair and shared with Council before transmission to the CCWG.
Council Meeting - 10 December 2015
Resolution adopted: The ccNSO Council has no objection to the CWG-Stewardship to proceed with overseeing the implementation as described in its letter November 2015 to the chartering organisations.
Resolution adopted: The ccNSO Council adopts the Nomination and Election Report Nominations and Elections to ccNSO Council 2016 and congratulates: Abibu Ntahigiye (.tz) African Region; Debbie Monahan (.nz) Asia-Pacific Region; Peter Vergrote ( .be) European Region; Demi Gethschko (.br) Latin American and Caribbean Region; Becky Burr (.us) North American Region with their election. The ccNSO Council also thanks Gabriella Schittek for her hard work as Election Process Manager.
CCWG Webinars - I attended one of the two sessions which were held to update the ccTLD community about the CCWG-Accountability Third Draft Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations. The presentation and recordings can be found on http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar#dec. Bart read a followup report from Mathieu and Becky provided specifics. The council will meet on Dec 23 to make a decision about whether to support the recommendations made by the CCWG-Accountability Proposal or not.
GNSO Update received from Patrick Myles (ccNSO Liaison); ccNSO liaison to ALAC report received
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
Decisions made at the ccNSO Council meeting 21 October 2015 (Dublin meeting)
The ccNSO Council approved the application of the ccTLD manager of .tk and welcomes Telecommunications Tokelau Corporation(Teletok), the ccTLD manager for .tk (Tokelau) as 157th member of the ccNSO.
The ccNSO Council appointed Celia Lerman Friedman as member of the ccNSO Travel Funding Committee (replacing Jordi Iparraguirre)
The ccNSO Council adopted the timeline for the special ccNSO Council election for the North American region (replacing Dotty Sparks de Blanc)) for the remainder of the seat term, March 2017. The ccNSO Council appointed Gabriella Schittek as Election Manager for the ccNSO Council Election Process 2016.
The election process for the LAC region has been extended until 30 October. There will be an election in the EU region, starting 5 November and closing on 19 November.
Thanks were extended to Dotty Sparks, Kristina Nordstom, Martin Boyle and Keith for their hard work on the ccNSO.
ccNSO Meeting Agenda for Dublin: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/dublin54/agenda.htm
ccNSO Activity Summary - September 2015
ICANN 54 - Dublin Full schedule - here ccNSO Members Meeting - Agenda
Working/Study Group Meeting Output:
14 September – Rules and Guidelines Review Committee - recording
17 September – Meetings Programme Working Group - recording
21 September – Rules and Guidelines Review Committee - recording
21 September - Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Country and Territory Names – transcript andrecording
23 September – IANA Stewardship Transition and Accountability Coordination Committee - recording
28 September – CWG-ISTP - recording
For output from the CCWG meetings see the CCWG Wiki Page: CCWG Wiki Page
Recordings of various Working Group Meetings can be found here: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar
ccNSO Council:
24 September – Council Telephone Conference - recording
20 August Council Call – Council Minutes
ccNSO Council preparation material and output can be found here http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/minutes.htm
ccNSO Council Decisions and Resolutions: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/decisions-resolutions.htm
terminology around IDN’s and language tables.
ccNSO Council meeting resolutions (24 September)
The ccNSO Council appoints Vaggelis Segredakis (.gr) as member of the Working Group Extended Process Similarity Review Panel. For the record it re-confirms the appointment of Giovanni Seppia (.eu) as member. The chair of the WG EPSRP is requested to find additional members of this WG. The secretariat is requested to inform the volunteers and update the webpage and email list.
The ccNSO Council appoints the following persons as Oversight Committee of the TLD-Ops mailing list : Cristian Hesselman, .nl, Erwin Lansing, .dk, Jacques Latour, .ca, Frederico Neves, .br, Abibu Ntahigiye, .tz, Geng-Da Tsai, .tw, Ali Hadji Mmandi (.km). It also requests the Oversight Committee to provide a plan for their succession by the Marrakesh meeting (March 2016).
The ccNSO Council adopts the secretariat report on the selection of the ccNSO delegate on ICANN’s NomCom FY 2016. The secretariat is requested to inform the NomCom and candidates as soon as possible on the appointment of Joerg Schweiger (.de).
The ccNSO Council adopts the report on the selection process for candidates for the ICANN leadership training by the leadership training ad-hoc committee. The candidates are Lesley Cowley and Jordi Iparraguirre
The ccNSO Council requests the secretariat to send out a call for volunteers as soon as possible for two members on ICANN’s IDN Guideline review committee. The call for volunteers should include a reference to the requirements included the ICANN announcement ((https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-07-20-en) In the event more then two volunteers put their name forward during the call for volunteers, the ccNSO Council will select the two members by an email decision making process, similar to what was used for the selection of the ccNSO appointed delegate on ICANN’s NomCom.
SEPTEMBER 2015 ccNSO Report
The ccNSO Council Meeting will be held on 24 Sept.
ccNSO Council Submission on the Proposal to Transition the Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions (7 September 2015)
The ccNSO Council welcomes the opportunity to review the Proposal to Transition the Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to the Global Multistakeholder Community. The comments of the ccNSO council focus on sections 1027 and 1036 of the ICG’s Proposal. This submission was adopted by the ccNSO Council (unanimously/majority) through email vote on 7 September 2015. On behalf of the ccNSO Council
Byron Holland, Chair
Framework of Interpretation (Section 1027)
The Council wishes to bring to your attention that certain statements set out in section 1027 of the consolidated IANA stewardship Transition proposal are rendered obsolete.. From the Proposal (s.1027)
“The ccNSO formally endorsed the FOIWG’s Final Report in February 2015 and transmitted it to the ICANN Board of Directors. It is currently pending review and adoption by the ICANN Board.” The Framework of Interpretation (FOI) is no longer pending.
At its meeting on 25 June 2015 ICANN’s Board of Directors adopted and endorsed the Framework of Interpretation without reservation.The Board of ICANN directed that “the CEO & President or his designee to develop an implementation plan for the recommendations for community consideration through a public comment, and to implement the plan when finalized.”[1]
We understand the difficulty to reflect the current state-of affairs of the matters documented in the proposal. However, in order given the paramount importance of the Framework of Interpretation in the context of delegation and re-delegations of ccTLDs, it is also important that there be a defined and current baseline documentation available post-transition.
Accordingly, we recommend the ICG, to consider the Proposal a 'living instrument' and update it from time-to-time to accurately reflect the actual and current state of affairs regarding the Framework of Interpretation. We suggest it is updated by the ICG up and until the submission of the Transition Proposal to the ICANN Board of Directors.
The ccNSO Council undertakes to inform the ICG on future relevant matters relating to the Framework of Interpretation, if any, to assist the ICG in keeping the Proposal up to date with respect to all matters pertaining to ccTLDs.
References to documentation of policy development and dispute resolution processes (ccTLDs) (Section 1036)
The ccNSO Council notes that the list of reference documentation of policy development and dispute resolution process (ccTLDs), section 1036, includes a reference to ICP-1, carrying the implication that ICP-1 is policy.
The ccNSO Council regrets this, and believes that this reference creates unnecessary ambiguity and uncertainty now and, more importantly, for the post-transition landscape.
The ccNSO Council further regrets that the inclusion of such a reference has unnecessarily re-opened a debate on the proposal as a whole, and as a result has had a adverse effect on the support for the Stewardship Proposal by the ccTLD community.
Inclusion of a reference to ICP-1 in this way is incorrect. It is not a document of policy development and dispute resolution processes as implied by the heading of this section.
As noted in section 1027 of the Proposal, the ccTLD community and the ccNSO have very longstanding and formal objections to ICP-1 on the grounds of both content and procedure.
Further, as noted above, section 1025 of the Proposal, following formal submision of the Framework of Interpretation, the ICANN board has agreed to our recommendation that ICANN is to archive ICP-1, News Memo – 1 and also the GAC Principles 2000 (superseded by the GAC Principles 2005[2]). Also, the Framework of Interpretation, accepted unanimously by ccTLD members of the ccNSO, articulates that RFC1591 and the 2005 GAC Principles are they only applicable policies and guidelines for delegations and redelegations of ccTLDs.
Finally, we observe that referencing ICP-1 alone in this section is inconsistent. Either, all obsolete and non-policy documentation should be included, or only actual and current documentation. In the first case News Memo – 1 and the GAC Principles 2000 along with several early RFCs should be included as well (marking them as obsolete and their status of archived), or none of them should be referenced at all.
The ccNSO Council therefore recommends and requests appropriate editorial changes, which can be achieved by removing the reference to ICP-1 in section 1036 altogether, and including a footnote referencing the removal clearly indicating the non-status of ICP-1 as well as News Memo 1 and GAC Principles from 2000 (the latter having been formally superseded by the GAC).
2 In addition the ccNSO Council recommended the ICANN Board that certain documents including the GAC Principles 2000 (which the GAC superseded in 2005), ICANN's ICP1 (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/delegation-2012-02-25-en) and News Memo 1 (http://www.iana.org/reports/1997/cctld-news-oct1997.html) should be archived and considered no longer used by ICANN staff. See Board resolution 25 June 2015.
ccNSO Working/Study Group Meeting Output:
10 August – Rules and Guidelines Review Committee - recording
12 August – Meetings Programme Working Group - Notes
24 August – Rules and Guidelines Review Committee - recording
24 August – Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Country/Territory Names –Transcript / Recording
For output from the CWG meetings see the CWG Wiki Page
For output from the CCWG meetings see the CCWG Wiki Page: CCWG Wiki Page
Latest ccNSO Council Minutes: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/minutes-ccnso-council-meeting-24jun15-en.pdf
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 Council Meeting (20 Aug)
Recording: http://ftp.adigo.com/clients/icann/20150820_ccNSO_Council_Call.zip
The draft charter is still under discussion. As soon as draft charter is ready, it will circulated with to Council email list for discussion and adoption. After adoption the secretariat will send out a call for volunteers.
ccNSO COUNCIL MEETING (BUENOS AIRES): Resolutions passed.
Approval of .BN application
The ccNSO Council approves the application of the ccTLD manager of .bn and welcomes Brunei Darussalam Network Information Centre Sdn Bhd, the ccTLD manager for .bn (Brunei) as 156th member of the ccNSO.
The ccNSO Council thanks Peter Van Roste (CENTR) and Dina Beer (formerly with the .IL registry, for their hard working and contribution to the success of the SOPWG.
The ccNSO request the secretariat to send out a call for volunteers who have developed an expertise in Strategy and Operating Plans as well as budgetary matters and can commit to work at least six days on a yearly basis
- 20 August 2015, 12.00 UTC (conference call)
- 24 September 2015, 12.00 UTC (conference call)
- 21 October 2015, 16.00 UTC (in person, Dublin ICANN meeting)
Members Days (Tuesday & Weds) - ICANN updates including IANA Stewardship and ICANN Accountability (CWG and CCWG activities and perspectives), New Meeting Strategy, etc
Technical Day (Monday) included .ke explaining a DNSSEC crash,mistakes and lessons learned plus offers of support and assistance from other members to anyone with similar difficulties.
ccNSO/ALAC meeting (Sunday) - not as animated as normal (perhaps 4.45pm not a good time after ALAC's no-break programme since 8am). Thanks to Byron and his team for explaining their decision-making process and outreach activities.
NB: ccNSO meetings attended as ALAC involvements allowed.
ccNSO Activity Summary for May 2015
Working/Study Group Meeting Output:
*Council meeting - 21 May - The minutes of last month's meeting (23 April)
Updates given on Internet Governance WG (Young Eum Lee), CWG (Lise - written) and CCWG (Mathieu).
The decision-making process on the CWG and CCWG proposals does not fit the ccNSO model of decision-making - a PDP is to attempt to find a solution "in the near future" (this wording was debated - Bart and Keith to work on wording that better reflects the reality of the time required to undertake a PDP )
A resolution was unanimously passed that ALL ccNSO Council members will also be on the ccNSO Members email list - this was a major discussion topic on the Council list!
SECIR report - membership now 148 (from 131 a week ago).
ccNSO-Board topics for BA:
ccNSO/ccTLD community specific issues with timeline, CWG and CCWG proposals
Rumour raised by Ron that there may be a change of date and time for the ccNSO-ALAC joint meeting in BA? Gisella to confirm.
*ccNSO Workplan for the month of May 2015 (Bart to discuss at the Council meeting - contains ccNSO member activities and involvements eg working groups)
*A special Council meeting will be held on the 28 May to give the Council a special session to address the CWG 2nd draft proposal public comments.
*The proposed agenda for ccNSO sessions at Buenos Aires can be found at http://ccnso.icann.org//meetings/buenos-aires53/agenda.htm
*ccNSO Pre-registration Form (for Buenos Aires)
In preparation for the Buenos Aires meeting the ccNSO have set up a pre-registration form for ccTLDs to pre-register for the meeting. Although it is not compulsory, it would give the staff some idea of what numbers they are preparing for at each of their sessions. The registration form asks for : (1) their ccTLD (2) their country (3) First name (4) Last name (5) email address and (6) a robot check. It is only available for registering ccTLD members.There is no option for registration for those who are not ccNSO members or those who might be peripheral to the work of ccTLD managers.
However, the idea of a pre-registration form has merit perhaps for the ALAC. In light of what has occurred with some of our members, pre-registration would be helpful to track the progress of visas; perhaps advise of needed support in preparation for ALAC and working group meetings, etc; it might allow for ALAC members to identify what sessions they plan to spend most of their non-ALAC time, to ensure an overall coverage of ALAC areas of interest. Pre-registration would give the ALAC Chair some indication of the voting membership to be available at the meeting beforehand, or at specific ALAC events; staff would get some idea of catering needs for the different sessions (ALT, ALAC, ALAC working groups). Pre-registration could add value to how the ALAC operates.
*UNANIMITY or CONSENSUS Debate
In answer to an email debate among the membership in response to concerns raised by the that has come from the ccNSO co-Chairs of the CWG and CCWG, Byron Holland provided a formal statement " This is a follow up to our letter dated March 26, 2015. Subsequent conversations with the ccNSO appointed co-chairs on the CWG- Stewardship and CCWG Accountability on April 15, 2015, and an informal Council call on April 17, 2015 suggest that the initial content of the letter from the ccNSO Council may have raised questions and caused some confusion. Specifically, we understand that clarity is required around the following statement: “…that the proposals coming out of the CWG and CCWG are…. broadly supported by their membership, and, in particular, by all of the ccTLD representatives”. It was asked whether this implied that the final proposal of the CWG or CCWG required unanimity or full consensus of the ccNSO appointed members, members and representatives. This question was discussed at the ccNSO Council meeting on April 23, 2015. In the view of the Council, broad support by the ccTLD representatives does NOT imply unanimity or full consensus, either by the ccNSO members or by the non-ccNSO ccTLD members and representatives of the group. Unanimity would mean the ccNSO Council impose a higher level of consensus on the internal decision-making process of the CWG or CCWG than what is defined in the charter adopted by the ccNSO. It would also reach above requirements set by NTIA, according to its announcement on consensus support. Although unanimity is not required, we do expect the proposal of the CWG or CCWG, when submitted, to reflect significant consensus. We also expect that all the ccTLD members and representatives of these groups will apply reasonable efforts to take into account all views and concerns."
*SECIR ("Secure Email Communication for ccTLD Incident Response”) Conference Call #14
This group includes non-members as well as members of ccNSO .. as a consequence, their subscription list has risen from 97 last month to 131. Information links for TLD-OPS: http://ccnso.icann.org/resources/tld-ops-secure-communication.htm and for SECIR: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/secir.htm
With the Buenos Aires meeting looming, we need to work on an agenda for our joint meeting proposed for Tuesday 23 June 7.15-8.15 (with coffee and snacks). Support for cWG and ccWG issues? Inreach - internal cctld/ALS liaison? Ron's recent liaison report to ccNSO highlighted the number of ALSes and the potential benefits of their building a relationship with their ccTLDs.
ccNSO Council Meeting 23 April - summary report
Young Eum Lee (.kr) replaces Jordan Carter as Co-Chair for Internet Governance due to Jordan's commitments with the ccWG Accountability
The Council expressed no objection to the change made in the ccWG IG Charter encouraging participation by any interested parties in IG working groups. Any formal decisions will be made by those appointed by their chartering organisations.
Discussion about the need for unanimity of ccNSO representatives on the ccWG Accountability resulted in a agreement by the Council that strong consensus of its appointed members should suffice. Disagreement centres around one member who is supporting the status quo rather than the IANA transition process.
There is still discussion about how best to get feedback from the ccTLD community without going through their normal process of F2F discussion. Of particular concern is how to gain their timely feedback on cWG and ccWG matters.
The SECIR WG has now subscribed over 100 members (77 last month). Looking at a brochure and outreach activities to help to build this number. Next call is May 11. The purpose of the group is to build up a communication network for ccTLD incident response.
Special ccNSO Council meeting (for cWG and ccWG updates) – 17 April
Report from Lise re CWG IANA update: focus on internal model with legal separation of IANA Function Operator as an affiliate with light weight Board (operational) – legal team investigating model - cWG webinar being prepared – cWG deliverables conditional on some aspects of ccWG (IANA Budget, community empowerment, redress and review, appeal mechanism (ccTLD delegation and redelegation is excluded from appeal process – ccNSO to work on this at a later stage). Public comment period 28 days. Consultation window conflicts with normal ccNSO process which includes full discussion with community (including a face-to-face meeting). This matter will require a decision by the Council to redesign their decision-making process to deal with the speed of decision-making required of the CWG and CCWG proposals. A question was raised about how easy it was to gain consensus from such a diverse group. Lise explained that decisions are very much consensus-based. There is a technical group but there also needs to be a group to deal with complaints. No objections to the model under discussion from the Council.
Report from Mathieu re CCWG Accountability update: WG proposals based on 4 building blocks presented in Singapore (powers of community, mission and core values of ICANN, the Board, Enhancement of IRP. The CCWG is evolving a list of stress tests (contingencies/risks and mitigating measures). The focus is on concrete proposals. Public comment will be sought in a couple of weeks. Legal advisors are raising additional issues. ccNSO endorsement of proposals at BA meeting – allowing for F2F consultation. Appears to be lack of consensus within ccNSO CCWG team – recall of ccNSO Board members? Letter has been sent to co-Chairs from ccNSO regarding Council concerns about the timing and logistics of the proposals coming out of the CWG‐ Stewardship and CCWG‐Accountability work streams. Council will clarify their position at the Council meeting next week.
"Secure Email Communication for cccTLD Incident Response” (SECIR) conference call #13
number of ccTLDs that have joined the mailing list increased from 77 last month to 97. ccNSO Secretariat have been contacting non-members in batches since ICANN52, and have now invited everyone to join. The WG will increase its outreach in order to encourage more engagement.
A TLD-OPS brochure has been produced to hand out at F2F meetings or by email, encouraging joining up.
Outreach activities proposed - e.g. announcement of the 100th ASCII subscriber, and a short presentation at the ccNSO Members Day in BA to update the community.
Working/Study Group Output:
19 March - CCWG IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions Teleconference Transcript
ccNSO members are being frequently updated by email about cWG. ccWG and internal activities. Member engagement is a focus of the TLD-OPS WG and a recent conference call demonstrated increased interest in the work of the ccNSO within their community. How the ccNSO might encourage ccTLDs to become more informed and to contribute more to the decision-making of the Council has been raised as an issue. As this too is a concern of the ALAC, the results of our proposed review of ALAC communication and participation processes and our aims to encourage more ALS engagement, could be helpful to the ccNSO. It could also be a topic for discussion at our joint meeting at ICANN53.
Follow-up to Council Mtg- Click here for the letter from the ccNSO Council to the CWG and CCWG co-Chairs regarding the decision-making process the ccNSO community will employ to make its decisions about the proposals that will come out of the Stewardship and Accountability workstreams. Briefly, proposals are initially distributed to the at-large ccNSO community by email for comment, and then discussed and generally decided upon by the Council and those who attend a face-to-face meeting.
Secure Email Communication for ccTLD Incident Response (SECIR) WG - Conference call #12 Mar 20
TLD-OPS status - membership of the list has grown from 29 to 77 since the last conference call on Feb 24. Invitations to attend the WG sessions by the ccNSO Secretariat are reliant on all IANA Admin Contact email addresses are up to date
Rules of Engagement - feedback on the two webinars on TLD-OPS "rules of engagement" have been discussed. The need for more clarity has resulted in the group refining their draft set of rules over the next weeks, for instance, adding an example for each of the TLD-OPS colour levels. More information about the WG on http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/secir-tld-ops-overview-02mar15-en.pdf
Sharing of incident information - while the purpose of the group is to act as a contact repository for ccTLDs the group decided that they may share incident information which may be useful and relevant to a large number of subscribed ccTLDs. The group's guidelines will stipulate the use of the main list for sharing but one example could be one ccTLD wanting to notify its peers of an ongoing dictionary attack on the ccTLD's name server because the attack might soon hop to another ccTLD.
The next conference meeting will be during the week of April 8.
Informal Report on the ccNSO Council meeting 19 March 1200UTC
CWG and CCWG updates featured highly in reports
Engagement of ccTLD members (including those outside of ccNSO) in the decision making process became a hot topic - to ensure that the ccTLD community viewpoint is heard in discussions about the separability issue, the FOI, use of ICANN finances, etc. Current consensus is that people aren't involved enough. More outreach and facilitating a greater understanding among ccTLD managers is required to enable more ccTLD managers with appropriate knowledge and expertise to be more involved in ccNSO decision making about important ICANN issues that the ccNSO should be contributing to.
the Council chair and the Chair of the FOIWG have written to the Board Chair, recommending that "the ICANN Board of Directors adopt the FOI and the related recommendations, as included in the Final Report of the FOI WG as the specific guidance on the interpretation of the existing and applicable policies and guidelines on delegation, redelegations and revocation and transfer of ccTLDs." The ccNSO Council will also "provide the FOI as input to both the CWG Stewardship and CCCWG Accountability working groups, with the request that the FOI and relevant recommendations from the report be incorporated into their work, including the Service Level Agreement, which will be included in the proposal for the IANA Transition Plan".
the Council adopted their Annual Workplan and Schedule and requested that the Secretariat update the workplan monthly and in accordance with the ccNSO Guideline to maintainims, update and review the ccNSO Workplan.
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 |
ccNSO Internet Governance Coordination Committee: At the Council meeting, I was appointed as an observer on the ccNSO IG Coordination Committee - IG issues for ccTLDs are an interest area for me and I appreciate the support of the Council for my membership of this committee;
ALAC-ccNSO meeting in Singapore (Tuesday 10th Feb, 7.15am-8.15am). Their proposed topics include: Setting a fixed time for future meetings, CWG Stewardship: progress to date, Decision making processes, outreach efforts? and CCWG Accountability: progress to date. More details as the Council minutes become available.
ccNSO Newcomer Webinar- 27 January @ 8:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC. To introduce newcomers to the ccNSO and ICANN world
ccNSO Council mtg Agenda (22 January 1200UTC) to include updates on : Internet Governance Update (Jordan Carter); IANA Stewardship Transition Process (CWG-Lise Fuhr; ICG-Keith Davidson; ISTACC-Byron Holland); Enhancement ICANN's Accountability Process (Matthieu Weill); Appointment of members to the Review Guidelines Committee and of the ccNSO IG Coordination Committee; Name Collision issue; Feedback on the Top 5 ICANN Enterprise Risks for the Board Risk Committee; Council Schedule for the Singapore meeting (including meeting with ALT on Tuesday am); and Councillors' updates.
Meeting documents from 11 Dec Council meeting available http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/minutes.htm (minutes still to be confirmed)
Current email discussions:
ALAC staff's suggested times for the ALAC-ccNSO joint meeting are to be proposed to the next Council meeting. The suggested times are Sunday evening, or Tuesday morning (before the start of the ccNSO meeting). A proposal for a topic or topics TBC before then as well. Katrina will consult with Byron and Keith.
ccTLD feedback is being sought for a range of topics to be considered by the Triage team for presentation to the Council. The topics are being considered include: Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information; auDA's alternative proposal to the CWG; IDN TLDs - LGR Procedure Implementation - Maximal Starting Repertoire Vn 2 (refer to https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-12-15-en; IGO/INGO Access to curative rights protections WG; and.. Country and Territory Names within the .BMW and .MINI TLDs
Draft ccNSO meeting schedule for Tues 10 and Weds 11 Feb 2015, http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/Singapore52/agenda.htm
ccNSO Council meeting held on 11 December 2014 (2am Cook Islands)
Jordan Carter, ccNSO co-Chair of the CCWG-Internet Governance reported that due to the attention focused largely on the IANA stewardship and Accountability processes there is little action for other WGs. They are currently fleshing out ideas with other co-Chairs for their first call and a work programme, and for Singapore meeting
CWG Accountability report by Lise Fuhr - "There seem to be concerns regarding the Independent Appeals Panel and delegation and re-delegation of ccTLDs. Furthermore the relationship between Contract co. and the Root Zone Manager has been raised as an issue too. Overall within the cc-community there seem to be concerns about the rushing of the proposal because of the deadline of January 30 and concerns about the accountability group not being on the same track since they haven’t really started yet."
CCWG use of Country and Territory Names - the co-Chairs of this CCWG requested the ccNSO and the GNSO councils not to object to the submission proposed by the CCWG as part of the public comment process of the GAC sub-group on Geographic Names. The council agreed to not object.to the statement stating t the use of country and territory names in new gTLD strings. The submission is as follows:
Dear GAC Sub-Working Group,
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
Thomas Rickert is the new GNSO liaison to the ccNSO
Documents delivered in preparation for the ccNSO Council meeting 20 Nov 1200UTC: ALAC Liaison Report, cNSO Activity Update, CCWGCharter
With Don Hollander's resignation as General Manager of APTLD, their Board is advertising through the ccNSO system for a replacement.
ccNSO have a Secure Email Communication for ccTLD Incidence Response (SECIR) working group that is looking at a working version of the SECIR services online as soon as possible. The SECIR services will be based on DNS-OARC’s OPS-Trust platform, as proposed to and approved by the community at ICANN51 in LA
(01/11/2014)
Regional organisations have sent out a survey to ccTLD managers - members and non-members - to provide the CWG reps with as wide a view as possible on their expectations of the IANA stewardship transition and how IANA should be structured in the future. A webinar is taking place on Tuesday November 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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ccNSO Phishing report published
New ccNSO Guidelines published
The ccNSO Council adopts the Nomination and Election Report Nominations and Elections to ccNSO Council 2016 and congratulates:· Abibu Ntahigiye (.tz) African Region· Debbie Monahan (.nz) Asia-Pacific Region· Peter Vergrote ( .be) European Region· Demi Gethschko (.br) Latin American and Caribbean Region· Becky Burr (.us) North American Region with their election. The ccNSO Council thanks Gabriella Schittek for her hard work as Election Process Manager.
1) No formal resolution was to be required
2) The ccNSO Council would provide input to the CCWG, which would request greater clarity on key issues as well as adherence to the requirements of the CWG. Further, that the ccNSO was generally supportive of the "direction of travel".
3) This input was to be summarized by the Chair and shared with Council before transmission to the CCWG.
GNSO Council Response to CCWG-Accountability - FINAL - 22 January 2016
Update EC AC/ GRC related work – Stephen Deerhake