October 2009 - Ccnso-council

IDN ccTLD Fast Track
by Chris Disspain Oct. 31, 2009

Oct. 31, 2009

All, Just to confirm that on Friday in Seoul the ICANN Board passed the resolution on IDN ccTLDs in the fast track and the 'application' process will open at 00:00 UTC on Monday 16 November. A number of people in the room were in tears when the resolution passed. Me included. Thank you to everyone who was involved in making this happen. It is a momentous achievement and our community should be proud of itself. Good luck to all those of you who will shortly be starting the process to have your IDN ccTLD delegated. Cheers, Chris Disspain CEO - auDA au Domain Administration Ltd <mailto:ceo@auda.org.au> ceo(a)auda.org.au <http://www.auda.org.au/> www.auda.org.au Important Notice - This email may contain information which is confidential and/or subject to legal privilege, and is intended for the use of the named addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, disclose or copy any part of this email. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Council meeting recording available
by Kristina Nordstrom Oct. 29, 2009

Oct. 29, 2009

Dear Council, The recording from the Council Meeting yesterday, 28 October, is now available at http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar/ Kind regards, Kristina

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Meeting High Lights
by Bart Boswinkel Oct. 29, 2009

Oct. 29, 2009

Dear all, Included is summary of the ccNSO meeting and ccNSO Council Chris and I preapred. Please have your comments in by 8 am tomorrow morning ( Friday). Chris is supposed to present between 9-and 10 am. Thanks and kind regards, Bart

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Updated agenda and associated document
by Bart Boswinkel Oct. 28, 2009

Oct. 28, 2009

Dear all, Included the updated agenda taking into account today's meeting: Bart 1. Approval of Minutes and Actions from Council call 13th October 2009 2. Redirection - next steps In order to understand the issues associated with "redirection" it is proposed to set up a small ad-hoc study group to further explore the issues associated with "redirection", liaise with SSAC and Stability, Security and Resilience group of ICANN, and engage with the ccTLDs who are currently "redirection" to understand their reasons for doing so and the impact of the redirection, and report to the Council and ccTLD community at the Nairobi meeting. 3. Update on delegation, redelgation and retirement WG: Board resolution on retirement of ccTLDs, progress of the working group and potential amendment of charter. Due to anticipated working method and its impact on duration of the activities of the WG the current process and schedule do not match. Schedule and duration of the WG will need to adjusted to accommodate the proposed working method and schedule. Under process as defined in charter, the WG will close at the Brussels, June 2010 meeting. According to proposed working group method the final report and recommendations of the WG are scheduled to be submitted at Spring ICANN meeting 2011. 4. Survey of the SOP WG: next steps Proposal: Council to inform the Board of the results of the survey. 5. Geographic names ( country and territory names) in new gTLD process: next steps Proposal: re-establish the ad-hoc working group chaired by Hilde Thumen and Annebeth Langen to prepare a letter to the Board and as submission in the public comment process on Version 3 of New gTLD Applicant Guidebook. 6. Adoption of updated charter of the Tech Day WG, Tech Day WG chair submits charter for adoption. It includes IANA liaison work. Chair: Eberhard Lisse, The WG will seek new members. 7. Adoption of amended charter of Incident Response Working Group The Incident Response Planning working group was established as ad-hoc Working Group. Activities under current charter are limited to planning and will close by Seoul meeting. High level plan has been presented, and needs some detailing on aspects. Parts of it can be implemented. Proposed purpose of WG and scope of activities now also include implementation activities in cooperation with ICANN. WG proposes chair: Norm Ritchie ( was Becky Burr), and vice-chair elcted by members of the WG. Closure date, when implementation of workplan is complete. Proposal: adopt proposed charter and appoint Norm Ritchie from CIRA as chair of the working group. 8. Adoption of amended charter Joint GNSO- ccNSO IDN WG Under current charter the WG closes at Seoul, unless both GNSO and ccNSO Councils agree to extend the duration. Porposed duration is now until IDN ccTLD policy development process recommendations or new gTLD implementation plan is adopted. 9. Request from .SG ccTLD to conduct survey among ccTLD managers on on GAC cooperation and competition with other TLDs. Objective: a. With the AoC and GAC playing a significant role in ICANN, how can the ccNSO leverage on the changes to work more closely with GAC given the nature of our constitution. b. How can the ccTLD managers compete more effectively with other TLDs? The survey results will be analysed and shared with all the members. A presentation could be arranged at the next ICANN Meeting as well. Proposal: Allow circulation the survey among ccNSO members and other ccTLDs ( ccTLDcommunity list) 10. Liaison Updates 10.1. At-Large Liaison (material already circulated to Ron Sherwood, see email 27 October) 10.2 GNSO Liaison 11. AOB

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Draft agenda ccNSO Council meeting 27 October ( today)
by Bart Boswinkel Oct. 27, 2009

Oct. 27, 2009

Dear all, Updated version draft agenda based on meetings until yesterday in Seoul. I will send out an updated agenda todays sessions and the documents. Bart 1. Approval of Minutes and Actions from Council call 13th October 2009 2. Wildcards - next step 3. Update on delegation, redelgation and retirement WG: Board resolution on retirement of ccTLDs, progress and potential amendment of charter. Anticipated working method and its impact on duration of the WG and current process and schedule do not match. Schedule and duration of the WG needs to adjusted to working method. Under process as defined in charter, the WG will close at the Brussels, June 2010 meeting. According to proposed working group final report and recommendations of the WG are scheduled to be submitted at Spring ICANN meeting 2011. 4. Survey of the SOP WG: next steps 5. Geographic names ( country and territory names) in new gTLD process: next steps 6. Adoption of updated charter of the Tech Day WG, Tech Day WG chair submits charter for adoption. It includes IANA liaison work. Chair: Eberhard Lisse, Vice-chair Norm Ritchie, IANA Liaison coordinator, Jay Daley 7. Adoption of amended charter of Incident Response Working Group The Incident Response Planning working group was established as ad-hoc Working Group. Activities under current charter are limited to planning and will close by Seoul meeting. High level plan has been presented, and needs some detailing on aspects. Parts of it can be implemented. Proposed purpose of WG and scope of activities now also include implementation activities in cooperation with ICANN. WG proposes chair: Norm Ritchie ( was Becky Burr), and vice-chair elcted by members of the WG. Closure date, when implementation of workplan is complete. 8. Adoption of amended charter Joint GNSO- ccNSO IDN WG Under current charter the WG closes at Seoul, unless both GNSO and ccNSO Councils agree to extend the duration. Porposed duration is now until IDN ccTLD policy development process recommendations or new gTLD implementation plan is adopted. 9. Liaison Updates 6.1. At-Large Liaison 6.2 GNSO Liaison 10. AOB

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Tech WG Charter
by Gabriella Schittek Oct. 27, 2009

Oct. 27, 2009

Dear Councillors, Attached is the proposed charter for the Tech Working Group which you will be requested to approve tomorrow. Kind regards, Gabi

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Request to conduct survey amongst ccTLDs
by Gabriella Schittek Oct. 27, 2009

Oct. 27, 2009

Dear Councillors, Han Chuan Lee asked me to forward this email to you. It is a request to conduct a survey on GAC cooperation and competition with other TLDs. The drafted survey is attached. You will need to approve this during the Council meeting tomorrow. Please, also see the email below! Kind tegards, Gabi ------ Forwarded Message From: "Han Chuan, Lee" <hanchuan(a)sgnic.sg> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:08:57 -0700 To: Gabriella Schittek <gabriella.schittek(a)icann.org> Cc: Chris Disspain <ceo(a)auda.org.au>, Lihsuan Liang <lliang(a)nii.org.tw> Subject: ccTLD Survey Dear Gabriella, Mr. Wu Guo Wei and Sophia Liang would like to conduct a survey among the ccTLD managers with 2 objectives in mind. 1. With the AoC and GAC playing a significant role in ICANN, how can the ccNSO leverage on the changes to work more closely with GAC given the nature of our constitution. 2. How can the ccTLD managers compete more effectively with other TLDs? The survey results will be analysed and shared with all the members. A presentation could be arranged at the next ICANN Meeting as well. We have spoken with Chris and would like to table this item at the council meeting tomorrow for council's approval to email the survey to the members. Please help to circulate to the councillors for consideration. Thank you. Regards Han Chuan, Lee ------ End of Forwarded Message

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ALAC Liaison Report
by vitech-ron Oct. 27, 2009

Oct. 27, 2009

Dear Councilors: Please find below my report for the Council Meeting on October 28th, together with links to information material. 1) ALAC adopted a Position Description for ALAC Members and Liaisons: See link: http://tinyurl.com/ALAC-PD 2) ALAC Community Guide to Generic Top-Level Domain Names [draft]: See attached PDF file [ICANN_At_Large_Bro.pdf] Brochure. 3) ALAC approves proposed Working group to research the possibility of developing mutually beneficial relationships between ccTLDs and ALSs: See attached PP file [cctld=als-bridge.ppt] used in Rudi Vansnick's presentation to ALAC. 4) ccTLD NIC-VI outreach experiment resulted in a commitment from the University of the Virgin Islands to introduce ICANN and Internet Governance material into the UVI Computational Sciences degree curriculum: See attached WORD file [UVI ICANN commitment.doc] with text from that commitment letter. 5) ALAC approved the previously proposed meeting in Seoul between ALAC Chair, ccNSO Chair, ALAC and ccNSO Liaisons, and ccTLD operators who have existing community outreach programs, to determine what mutual benefits may be realized from a project to bring together ALSs and their ccTLD counterparts. There are currently 97 ccNSO members and 118 ALSs. There are currently 20 ALSs in countries where the ccTLD is not a member of ccNSO. There are 64 countries where there are ccNSO members but no ALSs: See attached WORD file [ALSs and related ccTLDs.doc] Ron Sherwood, ccTLD/ALAC Liaison

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Survey ccNSO Meeting Day 1
by Gabriella Schittek Oct. 27, 2009

Oct. 27, 2009

Dear all, We would be really grateful if you could take a few minutes to reply to our short survey on ccNSO meeting Day 1: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/survey.zgi?p=WEB229RX7Q4KU3 At the end of the survey there are also a few questions for those of you who participated remotely. Thank you for your help! Your feedback will be very useful to assist us in improving future meetings. Gabi

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Breakfast with Board
by Chris Disspain Oct. 27, 2009

Oct. 27, 2009

All, I'd like to suggest a format for our breakfast tomorrow. - a brief opener from me: the top 3 issues we'd like to engage with Board members on. - ditto from Peter. - over to the tables to discuss at their tables. If your happy with that we will endeavour to ensure that Board and Council are well mixed at the tables. I can see 2 obvious issues for us: Country names in gTLD Affirmation of Commitments Would anyone care to suggest others. If so get back to me asap this afternoon please. Cheers, Chris Disspain CEO - auDA au Domain Administration Ltd <mailto:ceo@auda.org.au> ceo(a)auda.org.au <http://www.auda.org.au/> www.auda.org.au Important Notice - This email may contain information which is confidential and/or subject to legal privilege, and is intended for the use of the named addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, disclose or copy any part of this email. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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