Hi Laura, Thanks for a comprehensive report Best, Judith _________________________________________________________________________ Judith Hellerstein, Founder & CEO Hellerstein & Associates 3001 Veazey Terrace NW, Washington DC 20008 Phone: (202) 362-5139 Skype ID: judithhellerstein Mobile/Whats app: +1202-333-6517 E-mail:Judith@jhellerstein.com Website:www.jhellerstein.com Linked In:www.linkedin.com/in/jhellerstein/ Opening Telecom & Technology Opportunities Worldwide On 11/25/24 7:31 PM, Laura Margolis via ALAC wrote:
Dear All:
Hope this email finds you well.
Here is my report about the last council meeting #211 held in Istanbul on November 14^th . 2024.
You can see the full AGENDA and draft resolutions here <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ALAC+Liaison+to+the+ccNSO+Report...>.
In the last part, I am also including information on some of the sessions during ICANN81, with links to all the recordings included.
*7. Working Groups and Committees written updates – will be send and uploaded to wiki space <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ALAC+Liaison+to+the+ccNSO+Report...> shortly*
*10. Approval Action Fundamental Bylaw*
Timing of Approval Action Decision by Council.
The Board has passed a resolution on November 10^th . to amend a Fundamental Bylaw. This triggers the approval action process, which by mutual agreement has been expedited by agreeing to a community forum during ICANN81.
This also resulted in a need for the ccNSO to take a decision to approve, object or abstain by mid-December. If no decision, the ccNSO will be considered to have abstained.
You can find below the last ccNSO repository for Bylaw changes:
*ccNSO repository for Bylaw changes <https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=320405837&preview=/...> - *Version November 11th. 2024
*11. Update Chair, Vice-Chairs, Councillors, RO’s and Secretariat*
* Chair update SO/AC Roundtable*
Roundtable:
* Agreement on setting up a working group to review the Meeting Strategy, with defined charter and time frame. * It will be comprised of 8 participants + 8 alternates, appointed by the SO/ACs (16 max) * ICANN Org will be a participant and will have different proposals to issues they already have. * Expectation is that the WG will have results by Seattle, for the SO/AC Chairs to have a look and give a sense of them. * Then it will go to public comment. * Optimistically, it goes to the Board by Prague.
**
*12. ccNSO Membership application ccTLD Manager .bd (Bangladesh),*
The ccNSO received an application for membership from the ccTLD Manager for .bd (Bangladesh) the Posts and Telecommunications Division, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. No administrative issues showed.
* Decision*
The ccNSO Council approves the membership of the ccTLD Manager of .bd (Bangladesh) and welcomes the Posts and Telecommunications Division, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh as member of the ccNSO. The chair of the Council is requested to welcome the new member accordingly.
The ccNSO Secretariat confirms that the application details are those of the ccTLD Manager as specified in the IANA Database
* The ccNSO Secretariat sent a copy of the membership application to IANA Services staff. * IANA Services provided the following information: “there are no pending IANA requests or issues for the ccTLD”
*13. Approval generic invite letter*
To assist some ccTLD Managers to become members of the ccNSO, the ccNSO Council has contemplated drafting a generic letter of invitation for the ccTLD Managers, who may need such a letter. The draft was circulated to Council for review. The final version (13 November) is submitted for approval.
*Decision*
The ccNSO Council approves the generic invitation letter to become a member of the ccNSO. The secretariat is requested to post the letter to make it downloadable after this resolution becomes effective. The secretariat is requested to post this resolution as soon as possible.
*14. Extension of the duration of the PGA WG <https://ccnso.icann.org/en/workinggroups/pga-wg.htm> – Policy Gap Analysis Working Group *
The WG has completed part of this work, but still needs to explore gaps that have not emerged in practical terms. The WG therefore seeks to extend its mandate to ICANN83, allowing it to present its results in Seattle and present its recommendations in Prague.
According to its charter the WG had to be introduced by ICANN81, in order to address them and related methods. The WG has completed part of this work, but still needs to explore gaps that have not emerged in practical terms. The WG therefore seeks to extend its mandate to ICANN83, allowing it to present its results in Seattle and present its recommendations in Prague.
After ICANN82 and Until ICANN83: explore other gaps
*Decision*
The ccNSO Council extends the mandate of the Policy Gap Analysis working group up and until ICANN83, with expectation that the chair of the working group provides regular updates to the Council regularly.
**
*15. Appointment members WG and chair/ vice chairs*
**The following members were approved:
a. Appointment Andreas Musielak as chair and Irina Danelia as vice-chair of the SOPC
b. Appointment of Régis Massé as chair and Nicklas Pousette as vice-chair of the TLD-Ops Standing Committee.
c. Appointment Jennifer Lopez (.pa) Chair of the OMC
d. Appointment Sophie Mitchell (.au) to SOPC
e. Appointment of Pensri Arunwatanamongkol (.th) and Mourad Melleti (.tn) as members of the UAC
f. Appointment Nicky Lisse as member of the OMC
g. Appointment Souleymane Oumtanaga (.ci) as member to DASC
**
*16. Call for Volunteers/Expression of Interest*
The following call for volunteers will be relaunched:
a. ccNSO Liaison to the ALAC
For discussion: relaunch the call for expression of interest to serve as liaison to the ALAC
b. Two ccNSO appointees to Excellence Award selection panel
For decision
c. Call for volunteers SOPC
For decision
d. Call for volunteers GRC
The ccNSO Council request the secretariat to launch:
● A call for expression of interest by 26 November and close by 10 December 2024 to serve as ccNSO liaison to the ALAC
● A call for expression of interest by 26 November and close by 10 December 2024 to serve on the Excellence Award selection panel ccNSO Council
● A call for volunteers for the SOPC as soon as possible, and in coordination with the chair and vice-chair of the SOPC.
● A call for volunteers for the ccNSO GRC as soon as possible, and in coordination with the chair and vice-chair of the GRC.
The secretariat is requested to post this resolution as soon as feasible. This resolution becomes effective upon publication.
**
*18. Progress Board nomination process*
*New Item: Publish progress voting by members on Board seat 12 nomination*
For decision:
The ccNSO GRC was tasked to test the ccNSO continuous improvement framework as adopted by Council in March 2024. The area for testing this framework was the ccNSO members voting process. As the Board nomination process was expedited, including the members vote, and taking into account the outcomes of the in-person and virtual world cafes, the GRC suggests two interventions to improve the upcoming voting process:
* Outreach and informing ccTLD managers in the Caribbean region * Publishing which territory has voted (taking into account that some countries have two ccTLDs: ASCII and IDN, operated by two distinct managers)
As the second intervention changes the manner in which the ccNSO conducts its voting, and there is no time to update the relevant guideline, the GRC suggests that the Council approves this intervention prior to the start of the voting. The Board nomination voting is envisioned to start on 4 February 2025.
The publication will look like the following:
ccTLD - IDN ccTLD - Territory or Country - Region - Voted
.ae - United Arab Emirates - AP - pending
.af - Afghanistan - AP - pending
.al - Albania - EU – pending
To avoid any confusion, how was voted by the ccTLD Manager(s) from a territory remains to be confidential. It is the expectation of the GRC that as a result the number of emissaries of the ccTLD Managers will increase, and therefore result in a higher level of participation in the ccNSO voting process.
*Progress of process to date*
In line with the relevant guidelines and the timeline agreed upon by the ccNSO Council, an election will be held. The election will begin on 4 February 2025 (00:01 UTC), following the completion of due diligence and an opportunity for ccNSO members to interact with the candidates.
*Update timeline (change date of Q&A)*
For decision:
At the request of one of the candidates the Q&A requested to re-schedule the virtual Q&A with the Board Seat 12 candidates. As this requires a change of the Council approved timeline, the Council will need to approve such a change. In preparing this proposal the secretariat consulted the other candidate who expressed no objection. The suggested new date is 4 February 2025 at 14.00 UTC, the day the voting starts, and to avoid collusion with the seasonal break in the southern hemisphere.
**
*19. Next steps review ccNSO Financial Contributions Guideline*
According to the ccNSO Financial Guideline that was adopted in November 2013, the Guideline needs to be reviewed (required every 5 years). The first review was undertaken in *November 2018*, resulting in an improvement of the invoicing process. *The second review was introduced at ICANN81*. The chair of the former Finance WG focused on the historical background and core principles of the Guideline, ICANN’s
CFO on the underlying value exchange model and related monetary model, and the ccTLD Manager with largest annual contribution to ICANN (.NL) raised the topic of the discrepancy between the aggregate level of financial contributions by the ccTLDs and the total amount the ccTLD community considered reasonable to contribute.
Based on these introductions, it was suggested that the review should be conducted by a working group in close collaboration and assisted by ICANN Finance, in line with the manner in which the Finance WG was working. It was also suggested that this group would inform and consult the ccTLD community during the next ICANN82 and make recommendations to the community and Council by ICANN83.
To make this possible the following actions are suggested:
* Draft charter for such working group. The scope of this group should be focused on reviewing and confirming the model and related monetary model underlying the current financial contribution model with assumption for it to be confirmed, however if deemed necessary because of important shortcoming(s) in the current model, explore possible alternative models. * Explore, review and propose various financial contributions models, including the current banded contribution model, to be considered by the community and Council * Explore and suggest ways in which a discrepancy between level of aggregate contribution and level of reasonable contribution and how the discrepancy between these levels can be overcome, whilst maintaining the principle of voluntariness of the contributions.
*23. Next Council Meetings*
12 December 2024 | 12:00 UTC, Meeting 212
16 January 2025 | 18:00 UTC, Meeting 213
13 February 2025 | 12:00 UTC, Meeting 214
*_INTERESTING SESSIONS DURING ICANN81_*
*DASC <https://ccnso.icann.org/en/workinggroups/dasc.htm> – DNS Abuse Standing Committee *
The DASC Survey’s results were presented to ALAC
I am attaching the presentation in this email. If you want to know more information, please contact me and I will be happy to provide it.
/_I would like to mention that I spoke with Nick Webham-Smith who is the chair of the DASC group to work on making repository public for ALAC Community_/
*_Engaging with the Global Digital Compact (GDC): key insights for ccTLDs in the WSIS+20 Process_*
This session was organised by the ccNSO IGLC, to review the community engagement with the Global Digital Compact (GDC) and identify takeaways for ccTLDs in the WSIS+20 process, thus empowering ccTLDs globally to navigate and influence the global digital governance landscape effectively.
Session chair: Annaliese Williams (.au) Panellists: Manal Ismail (Egypt IDN), Jorge Cancio (GAC CH), Peter Koch (.de), Yuri Takamatsu (.jp), Demi Getschko (.br)
Recording available:
Zoom Archive <https://icann.zoom.us/rec/share/Q-1pJcHgy86Q1Bopu6Unde79715w9uI_YCJ_AQdSqZ9a...>
*_ccTLD News part 1_*
Session chair: Yuri Takamatsu (.jp)
* Transformations in the .tr Domain Name Landscape Within Two Years: The Impact of TRABİS | *_Erdem Bayrak (.tr)_* * VN domain name: incentives to promote digitalization in Viet Nam | Huu Ly Thai (.vn) * Taking Kenyan Schools Online: The Elimu TSO Program with KeNIC and Ajira Digital | Davis Waithaka (.ke) * A Window to the Future: the .au Domain Administration's Future Scenarios Project 2024 | Sophie Mitchell (.au)
If you would like to listen the recordings to any of these presentations, please click on the link below:
*_Zoom Archive <https://icann.zoom.us/rec/share/Y7DOP_4kVgp5WKNch_RBtsBB1-e-s4b6uGOtWgiGd0Ct9FzL6vMwIvU-tAApiP-6.UopOHGVyUHXn4r5K?startTime=1731499226000>_*
*_ccTLD News part 2_*
*_During this session, de new .CO was launched by Thiago Dal-Toe from .co_*
_Session chair: Guðrun Poulsen (.fo)_
* _Artificial Intelligence Policies and Readiness | Masa Drofenik (.si)_ * _.UZ Domain on the High-Speed Line | Askhat Gimranov (.uz)_ * _New Public tender and updated policies for the ccTLD .co | Thiago Dal-Toe (.co)_ * _.tw community engagement | Ian Chang (.tw)_
If you would like to listen the recordings to any of these presentations, please click on the link below:
*_Zoom Archive <https://icann.zoom.us/rec/share/Y7DOP_4kVgp5WKNch_RBtsBB1-e-s4b6uGOtWgiGd0Ct9FzL6vMwIvU-tAApiP-6.UopOHGVyUHXn4r5K?startTime=1731504616000>_*
Any questions or additional information, please let me know.
Thank you.
Best Regards,
*Laura Margolis*
ALAC Liaison to ccNSO
margolisl@gmail.com +59899690992 skype: lauri.margolis
ccNSO Liaison Workspace <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ALAC+Liaison+to+the+ccNSO+Report...>
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