May 2012 - Ccnso-council - lists.icann.org

Latest TAS Update
by Gabriella Schittek May 10, 2012

May 10, 2012

Dear all, The latest TAS Update: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-09may12-en.htm Gabi

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TAS Update
by Gabriella Schittek May 9, 2012

May 9, 2012

Dear all, ICANN is planning to reopen the TAS on 22 May 2012. It will then remain open for five business days and close on 30 May: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-08may12-en.htm Kind regards, Gabi

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FW: ccNSO Apointees to ICANN Academy WG
by Gabriella Schittek May 9, 2012

May 9, 2012

Forwarded to you on behalf of Nigel Roberts. From: Nigel Roberts <nigel(a)channelisles.net<mailto:nigel@channelisles.net>> To: Gabriella Schittek <gabriella.schittek(a)icann.org<mailto:gabriella.schittek@icann.org>> Cc: Hong Xue <hongxueipr(a)gmail.com<mailto:hongxueipr@gmail.com>> Subject: Re: ccNSO Apointees to ICANN Academy WG Dear Gabi I would like to echo Hong's thanks to you and to Council and look forward to working with all concerned on this interesting project. Please pass this on to Council. Nigel

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Council Call recording available
by Kristina Nordstrom May 8, 2012

May 8, 2012

Dear all, Please find the recording from today's Council call below: http://audio.icann.org/ccnso/ccnso-council-20120508-en.mp3 Kind regards, Kristina

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Re: [ccnso-council] Dial in details Council Call 8 May 12:00 UTC
by Barrack Ong'ondo Otieno May 8, 2012

May 8, 2012

Hi Kristina, I am unable to dial in, kindly assist. Best Regards On Thu, May 3, 2012 10:34 am, Kristina Nordstrom wrote: > Dear all, > > The next Council call will take place on 8 May at 12:00 UTC. > > Please find the dial in details below: > > Dial in numbers: http://www.adigo.com/icann/ > Conference ID: 5258 > > If you need dial out assistance for this call, please let me know as soon > as possible. > > Kind regards, > Kristina > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by KeNIC MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > Kenya Network Information Center (KENIC) > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by KeNIC MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Kenya Network Information Center (KENIC)

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Council Call Preparation Material
by Gabriella Schittek May 8, 2012

May 8, 2012

Draft Council Agenda ccNSO Council Meeting 8 May 2012 Agenda: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/agenda-council-08may12-en.pdf 1. Minutes and Actions ccNSO Council Meeting 17 April 2012 1.1 Minutes 1.2 Actions Minutes & Actions 17 April Council Telephone Conference: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/node/31167 2. Updates 2.1 Chair 2.2 Vice-chairs 2.3 Councillors 2.4 Observers 2.5 ccNSO support staff 3. ccNSO Statements Process. 4. Council Input to change ICANN Meeting Schedule See email from Lesley Cowley to Council, 30 April 2012: * * "/…/A request for comments on the suggestion that the presentation of the SO/AC reports and Board meeting that take place on the Friday of each meeting week be changed, in order to allow for more emphasis on enhanced interaction throughout the week. If you have any comments on this suggestion, they would be appreciated." * 5. Cross Constituency Working Group Principles See attachment 1 6. Working Group and OtherUpdates 6.1 Finance Working Group 6.2 SOP Working Group 6.3 Framework of Interpretation Working Group 6.4 Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN Working Group (JIG) * Update appointments and voting. 6.5 Joint Security & Stability Working Group (DSSA) 6.6 Study Group on Use of Names for Countries and Territories 6.7 Meetings Programme WG. 6.8 Informal Study Group on Capacity Building 6.9 Public comment requests (new item, report from Councillors Vika and Keith, staff), material on alert list. Not included in this overview are: * GAC-ccNSO liaison WG. Until further notice the WG is dormant. * Contact Repository Implementation Working Group * IDN PDP Working Groups 7. ICANN Academy Working Group: Appointment of Volunteers Volunteers: Eberhard Lisse, .na Nigel Roberts, .gg & .je Grigori Saghyan, am Ron Sherwood, .vi Hong Xue, ccNSO Councillor (NomCom) Hongbin Zhu, .cn Background: The Chair of the ALAC requested two volunteers from ccNSO to participate in development of the ICANN Academy and its curriculum (for background see: http://costarica43.icann.org/meetings/sanjose2012/presentation-icann-academ…) To date 6 volunteers. - Criteria for appointment: * Knowledge of At Large, * Intimate knowledge of ccNSO/ ccTLD community and their needs * Ability to align activities of Academy with ccNSO needs and activities - Appointment of volunteers 8. GAC-ccNSO Council Topics 8.1 Introduction session on ccNSO 8.2 Topics for joint meeting (proposal) * Progress FOIWG to date, * Country names Study Group/UNECO survey, progress to date of study group * ccNSO view Ops Plan and Budget 9. ccNSO-GNSO Meeting Topics Porposal topics for Lunch meeting in Prague: (briefing for Juhani and Roelof) 10. Topics for Discussion Across Communities See email from Lesley Cowley to Council, 30 April 2012: "/…/ A request for suggestions on any topics of cross-community common interest for the Prague meeting agenda, so that specific sessions can be scheduled outside of the SO/AC meetings. These should be on common topics that will be of wide interest and which can have open participation from across the ICANN community. If you have any topic suggestions, please could you let me know as soon as possible." 11. Draft Agenda Prague Meeting http://www.ccnso.icann.org/node/31117 12. Liaison updates 11.1 ALAC liaison See attachment 2 11.2 GNSO liaison 13 . Next ccNSO Council Meetings Not delivered in time for posting. 14 . AOB

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TAS Update
by Gabriella Schittek May 8, 2012

May 8, 2012

Dear all, The latest TAS Update: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-07may12-en.htm ICANN will provide a full refund of the application fees paid by any new gTLD applicant that wishes to withdraw its application prior to publication of the list of applied-for new top-level domain names. Kind regards, Gabi

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Improvements to ICANN meetings
by Chris Disspain May 7, 2012

May 7, 2012

Hi All, I hope the below provides some useful context for the recent improvements to ICANN meetings that will commence in Prague. (1) In the past, the Board has typically worked with staff until midnight, and in some cases 2am, on the Thursday before the Friday Board meeting to prepare resolutions for voting. This is after a busy week listening to feedback from the community, and the end result is often Board resolutions that are poorly crafted and create problems in future. (2) For Prague, the intent is that the Board will focus on listening to the community, and then in a Board/community session on Thursday give the community some idea of what future resolutions will be voted on in or actions taken in response to that feedback. A board meeting will then be held shortly after Prague to approve any necessary resolutions. (3) An example of this approach was on the topic of Conflicts of interest in Dakar in October 2011. The Board listened to the community during the week, and then in the public session on conflicts Board members gave some feedback to the community on specific measures that would be taken with respect to new gTLDs. After careful review by the legal team, and review by Board members, the Board held a meeting on 8 Dec 2011 - where a resolution was passed on managing conflicts for new gTLDs, along with other resolutions that resulted from the discussions in Dakar. (4) The Board has also been working to ensure that most resolutions at the Board level are relatively routine. This means that bodies like the ccNSO have already reached consensus on a topic or staff have managed a public comment process on a topic - and there are no controversies associated with the matter. For such routine resolutions - we either have a short teleconference or we take advantage of face-to-face time at a Board workshop to pass these resolutions. For example, at the Board workshop just concluded in Amsterdam we had a short Board meeting to pass mostly consent resolutions. It is likely that in Prague we will pass resolutions on routine matters in the Board workshop on the weekend of 23/24 June - if there are matters submitted by staff for approval - and can report on them during the public meetings. If there are controversies on a matter, the general approach would be to seek to return the matter to the relevant body or bodies to reach a stronger consensus. Thus you will see fewer matters that are not on the consent agenda at Board meetings. (5) Where there is a major policy vote, or where there are differing views on a major policy, the Board will continue to schedule such discussions for the public Board meetings. Past examples of such matters include the launch of the IDN Fast Track, .xxx decision and the approval of the new gTLD program in Singapore in June 2011. (6) With respect to transparency, the Board has been publishing rationales for each of its decisions - including those on the consent agenda. There are also detailed minutes of meetings, where contributions from Board members made during a Board meeting are captured. For example, from the minutes of the meeting on 8 Dec 2011 (http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/minutes-08dec11-en.htm) there is a detailed record of the discussion on conflicts as well as on batching. (7) We are still refining improvements and certainly welcome feedback from the community. (8) It's likely that the Board/community session will be held just before the Public Forum on Thursday. Therefore it is unlikely to interfere with ccNSO WG sessions that often take place whilst the public forum is going on. Please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions or concerns, and certainly feel free to provide feedback to the Board in the Board/ccNSO meeting in Prague. Cheers, Chris

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Dial in details Council Call 8 May 12:00 UTC
by Kristina Nordstrom May 7, 2012

May 7, 2012

Dear all, The next Council call will take place on 8 May at 12:00 UTC. Please find the dial in details below: Dial in numbers: http://www.adigo.com/icann/ Conference ID: 5258 If you need dial out assistance for this call, please let me know as soon as possible. Kind regards, Kristina

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FW: Written Working Group Update for May Council Call
by Gabriella Schittek May 5, 2012

May 5, 2012

Dear Councillors, Ondrej Filip has provided a written Working Group Update for the Programme WG: == "Since the last report the Working Group had another conference call. We continued our discussion about meeting attractiveness improvement. We decided to prepare a facebook page for the meeting participants. To help less experienced speakers the WG published Presentation Guidelines. We decided that the main topic of the panel discussion will be Internet Governance and we are currently working on a briefing paper. The meeting agenda is currently published and we do not expect any major changes. The WG also appointed a liaison (Ondrej Filip) to the Informal Study Group on Capacity Building." == Kind regards, Gabi

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