August 2009 - Ccnso-council

Call for SOP Working Group volunteers
by Kristina Nordstrom Sept. 8, 2009

Sept. 8, 2009

Dear all, The Strategic and Operational Planning Interaction Working Group (SOP WG) that was formed in November 2008 is now calling for further volunteers. The SOP WG was formed in order to coordinate, facilitate, and increase the participation of ccTLD managers in ICANN's strategic and operational planning processes and budgetary processes. You'll find more information in the SOP WG Charter at this link http://www.ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/sopiwg-charter.pdf Membership of the WG is open to all ccTLD managers (members and non-members of the ccNSO) and you do not need to be a ccNSO member to participate. New members will be appointed for one term, which ends in June 2010, they can then be reappointed. Please be aware of that - as can be read in the Charter - the SOP WG will take a proactive role in seeking and foster participation and input from ccTLD managers and provide regular feedback to the ccNSO on the strategic and operational plan, and will therefore require fully committed members who can spare the time needed for the task. If you are interested in participating in SOP WG, please let me know by email before 15 September 2009. Kind regards, Kristina / ccNSO Secretariat

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Call for IR Working Group volunteers
by Kristina Nordstrom Sept. 4, 2009

Sept. 4, 2009

Dear all, The Incident Response Planning Working Group (IR WG) that was formed in July 2009 is now calling for further volunteers. The IR WG was formed in order to develop sustainable mechanisms for the engagement of and interaction with ccTLD registries during incidents that may impact the DNS. You'll find more information in the IR WG Charter at this link http://www.ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/irwg-charter.pdf Membership of the WG is open to everyone and you do not need to be a ccNSO member to participate. If you are interested in participating in IR WG, please let me know by email before 5 September 2009. Kind regards, Kristina / ccNSO Secretariat

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Reminder: DNSSEC Survey
by Gabriella Schittek Sept. 4, 2009

Sept. 4, 2009

Dear all, This is just a reminder that our DNSSEC survey is still running and we would like to invite all ccTLDs to participate. Many thanks to all of you who already have replied! I'm copying in all questions which are asked below, so that you can get familiar with them. The survey can be accessed at: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229C76TPWJ4 The results will be compiled and presented in an anonymised way (in the same fashion as the 2007 DNSSEC survey - see http://ccnso.icann.org/surveys/dnssec-survey-report-2007.pdf) The survey is open for your replies until Monday, 7th September 2009. Your participation is gratefully appreciated! Kind regards, Gabi Dear all, The ccNSO is relaunching the DNSSEC survey which was first conducted in September/October 2007 (see results at http://ccnso.icann.org/surveys/dnssec-survey-report-2007.pdf) We would be very grateful if you could take a few minutes to reply to the survey which you can access at: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229C76TPWJ4 (it can only be filled in once per computer station) You will note that a few questions have been added, or slightly reshaped compared to the previous version (these questions have been clearly marked), in order to better reflect the current situation. The reason for the re-launch is a request from the .se registry and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) which suggested that a comparison between the two surveys could be of great interest. Your participation in this survey is very valuable and we are grateful over every reply received! Please, let me know should you have any questions! Kind regards, Gabi ----------- 1. Your top-level domain: 2. Do you know what DNSSEC is? Yes I know what it is, but don't know how it works. I have heard about it, but don't know what problem it solves No 3. Has your registry implemented DNSSEC, or is actively implementing DNSSEC? Yes No 4. Do you plan to implement DNSSEC? Yes No 5. Please briefly explain why you do not intend to implement DNSSEC in the next three years. Questions for registries that have deployed DNSSEC 6. [NEW] For DNSSEC, what implementation phase are you in now? Implementation Phase Test Phase Fully Deployed 7. Please briefly describe the technical environment you use for DNSSEC 8. Please briefly describe your experience in implementing DNSSEC Questions for registries about to implement DNSSEC 9. What is the planned timeline for implementing DNSSEC? Within 12 months Within 2 years 2-4 years 10. Please briefly describe the technical environment you plan to use to implement DNSSEC: 11. Please briefly describe how strategically important you consider DNSSEC to be. (Please explain what the principal drivers are, the goals you would like to achieve with DNSSEC, and the main threats and opportunities you foresee). Signing the DNS Root 12. Is it important to you that the DNS root zone is signed? Yes No 13. [UPDATED] Who, in your opinion, should be signer of the DNS root zone? VeriSign ICANN/IANA Some other non-governmental organisation A government A grouping of governments Other, please specify 14. [NEW] Are you aware of the Interim Trust Anchor Repository (ITAR) provided by IANA? Yes No 15. [NEW] Are you using ITAR for your registry? Yes, deployed DNSSEC and used ITAR No, deployed DNSSEC without using ITAR No, haven¹t deployed DNSSEC 16. [NEW] It was announced on 3 June 2009 that two agencies of the U.S. Department of Commerce, ICANN and VeriSign are working on an interim approach to deployment, by year¹s end, of DNSSEC at the authoritative root zone. What is your view? The fact that the deployment is interim does not impact our implementation plan We are reconsidering our planning until it is clear how under the interim approach DNSSEC will be deployed. We postpone our implementation until the definite plan to sign the root is made public. 17. [NEW] It was also identified that VeriSign will manage and have operational responsibility for the Zone Signing Key in the interim arrangement, and that ICANN will manage the Key Signing Key process. ICANN will work closely with VeriSign regarding the operational and cryptographic issues involved. Does the proposed arrangement concern you? Yes No 18. Please explain your concerns about the proposed signing arrangement. 19. Please choose your view: The proposed arrangement between VeriSign and ICANN does not impact our planning We are reconsidering our planning as a result of the proposed arrangement We will not implement DNSSEC as a result of the proposed arrangement 20. Please explain your concerns that is causing you to reconsider or not deploy DNSSEC. Exchange of Information and Experiences 21. [NEW] Would it be of any interest to you to have updated and relevant statistics about the total number of signed zones, worldwide (or as far as applicable)? Yes No 22. Do you think there is a need to exchange DNSSEC experiences between TLD managers? Yes No 23. Do you think the ccNSO should actively promote the deployment of DNSSEC? Yes No 24. Please explain how you think the ccNSO should promote DNSSEC:

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Call for JIG Working Group volunteers
by Kristina Nordstrom Sept. 3, 2009

Sept. 3, 2009

Dear all, The Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN Working Group (JIG WG) that was formed in June 2009 is now calling for volunteers. The purpose of the Ad-hoc ccNSO/GNSO Joint IDN Working Group is to deal with issues related to the introduction of IDN ccTLDs under the IDN ccTLD Fast Track implementation process and IDN gTLDs under the new gTLD implementation process which are of common interest to both the GNSO and ccNSO. You'll find more information in the JIG WG Charter at this link http://www.ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/jiwg-charter.pdf Membership of the JIG WG is open to everyone and you do not need to be a ccNSO member to participate. However, only five members can be appointed and if there are more than five volunteers the Council will decide who the members will be. If you are interested in participating in the JIG WG, please let me know via email before 5 September 2009. Kind regards, Kristina / ccNSO Secretariat

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NomCom appointments
by Gabriella Schittek Aug. 29, 2009

Aug. 29, 2009

Dear all, The NomCom has announced their selections for leadership positions within ICANN. Rajasekar Ramaraj, India, Gonzalo Navarro, Chile and George Sadowsky, United States were appointed to the ICANN Board. Beckwith Burr was reappointed to serve a second term on the ccNSO Council. For more information, see: http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-28aug09-en.htm Congratulations, Becky! Gabi

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August Policy Update
by Gabriella Schittek Aug. 28, 2009

Aug. 28, 2009

Dear all, The monthly Policy Update is now available at http://www.icann.org/en/topics/policy/update-aug09-en.htm ccTLD related issues are dealt with under point 2, 3 and 4 (ccTLD Delegation / Redelegation Working Group Launches; Cocos Islands Arrive as Member 95; Last Call Issued for DNSSEC Survey). Please, also have a look at agenda point 11, dealing with the Geographic Regions Working Group, which is looking into ICANN's current definition of the Geographic Regions ("Cross-Community Geographic Regions Review Publishes Initial Report for Community Input"). Kind regards, Gabi

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FW: ICANN BOARD MEETING APROVES ALAC SEAT
by Gabriella Schittek Aug. 27, 2009

Aug. 27, 2009

Dear Councillors, Please, see Ron's note below on an adding an ALAC seat to the ICANN board. Gabi ------ Forwarded Message From: Ron Sherwood <Ron(a)vitechnicalservices.com> Reply-To: Ron Sherwood <Ron(a)vitechnicalservices.com> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:47:06 -0700 To: Gabriella Schittek <gabriella.schittek(a)icann.org> Subject: ICANN BOARD MEETING APROVES ALAC SEAT Good morning, Gabbi: Would you please advise the ccNSO Council that the ICANN Board has just unanimously approved the addition of an ALAC seat on the ICANN Board. The ALAC Executive Council is pleased with this decision, but are unsure whether this is the definitive Board reaction to the ALAC review WG and SIC recommendation (of two voting members), or a possible first step with the Board reserving the right to expand to two ALAC members at some future date. Thanks, Gabbi Ron Sherwood ccNSO/ALAC liaison ------ End of Forwarded Message

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Recording Council Call 24 Aug
by Kristina Nordstrom Aug. 27, 2009

Aug. 27, 2009

Dear Council members, The recording of the Council Call 24 August is now available at http://www.ccnso.icann.org/calendar Kind regards, Kristina

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ccNSO Draft Meetings Agenda Seoul
by Gabriella Schittek Aug. 26, 2009

Aug. 26, 2009

Dear all, Please, find the first draft Agenda for the ccNSO Meetings in Seoul attached and copied in below. It will also be published at ccnso.icann.org Kind regards, Gabi ccNSO Meetings Seoul, South Korea 26 28 October 2009 Monday 26 October 2009 Time Topic 10.30 17.30 ccNSO Tech Day 11.00 12.30 Orientation Session for New and Returning ccTLDs 12.30 14.00 ccNSO/GNSO Council lunch meeting 16.00 17.30 Joint SO/AC Public meeting Members Meeting Tuesday 27 October 2009 Time Topic Speakers 09.00 09.15 Awareness of ICANN issues, Chris Disspain, ccNSO Chair 09.15 10.00 Expense Area Discussion Kevin Wilson 10.00 10.45 ICANN Board update Rod Beckstrom, ICANN Peter Dengate-Thrush, ICANN Board 10.45-11.00 Coffee break 11.00 11.20 IANA Update Kim Davies, IANA 11.20 11.40 JPA Update Doug Brent 11.40 12.30 WHOIS Session Norwegian WHOIS study Lee Bygrave, NRCCL WHOIS in .hr Zoran Vlah Internationalised WHOIS Dave Piscitello, ICANN 12.30 12.45 Contingency Planning ICANN Patrick Jones, ICANN 12.45 13.00 Lunch sponsor update/.mobi 13.00 14.00 Lunch sponsored by .mobi 14.00 15.30 Update from Working Groups: 14.00 14.20: Joint ccNSO/GAC WG Geographic Regions Tech WG Programme WG 14.20 14.45: Delegation/Redelegation Working Group 14.45 15.10: Strategic and Operational Plan (SOP) Working Group 15.10 15.30: Incident Response (IR) Working Group 15.30 15.45 Coffee break 15.45 16.15 ccTLD News Session Issues in implemening a Domain Registration system at LK Domain Registry .lk - Gihan Dias Expected launch of ENUM under .jo - Fahd Batayneh Implementing Cyrillic IDNs in Russia - Andrei Kolesnikov EPP implementation under .cr - Luis Diego Espinoza Technical update of .na - Eberhard Lisse Latest developments in the .au registry - Chris Wright 16.15 16.45 Regional Organisation Updates AFTLD APTLD CENTR LACTLD 16.45 17.30 Implementation Recommentation Team (IRT) proposals for the new gTLD space Nick Wood, IRT member; David Taylor, IRT member Members Meeting Wednesday 28 October 2009 Time Topic Speakers 9.00 10.45 IDN Fast Track 10.45 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 12.30 Marketing Strategies/Awareness campaigns in Registries .mx Nancy Ortiz .ph Joel Disini .se Matias Vangsnes .za Vika Mpisane .cz Pavel Tuma .nz Debbie Monahan 12.30 12.45 DNSSEC survey replies Gabriella Schittek 12.45 13.00 Update by lunch sponsor/ Logic Boxes [TBC] 13.00 14.00 Lunch sponsored by Logic Boxes [TBC] 14.00 15.00 Sharing Resources between Registries Sharing Marketing Resources .cz CENTR .uk Lesley Cowley .cz Ondrej Filip ICANN John Crain 15.00 15.30 Update from ccNSO Board members Peter Dengate-Thrush & Michael Silber, ICANN Board members 15.30 16.00 Coffee break 16.00 17.00 ccNSO Council meeting

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youth session
by Chris Disspain Aug. 26, 2009

Aug. 26, 2009

All, I have, over the last month, done a significant amount of work on this suggestion in order to present a formal proposal first to the programme committee and then to the council. That work has indicated that to run something along the lines I envisaged could not be done until our meeting in Kenya at the earliest. I have more work to do and so for now will simply continue to do this in the background and will only raise the proposal again if I am satisfied that it is workable. 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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