April 2013 - Ccnso-council - lists.icann.org

Invitation to ccNSO Webinar 27 March 08:00/19:00 UTC
by Kristina Nordstrom Nov. 6, 2013

Nov. 6, 2013

Dear all, The suggestion to have a ccNSO newcomer webinar was met with positive reactions and we have decided to move forward. The webinar will be held on Wednesday 27 March on two occasions: 08:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC. If you wish to participate, just join the session most convenient for your timezone. Adigo numbers: http://adigo.com/icann/ Conference ID: 6565 Adobe Room: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/ccnso2013/ If you need a dial out for the session please let me know as soon as possible. Two-way audio will be available in the Adobe room. The webinar is open to anyone interested in the function of the ccNSO and its role within ICANN and we will also touch on ccNSO activities at ICANN meetings. Please feel free to forward this information to anyone who might find it useful. You do not need to rsvp, just show up! Kind regards, Kristina

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Lunch Sponsors Sought for Beijing!
by Kristina Nordstrom June 18, 2013

June 18, 2013

Dear all, We are now looking for lunch sponsors for following ccNSO related ICANN Beijing events: Tech Day Monday 8 April ccNSO Members Meeting Day 1 Tuesday 9 April ccNSO Members Meeting Day 2 Wednesday 10 April Should your registry/organisation be interested in sponsoring any of these event, please let me know! Thanks and kind regards, Kristina

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Blog entry on DNS Summit
by Gabriella Schittek April 26, 2013

April 26, 2013

Dear all, ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé has published a blog entry on the recent DNS Summit in New York: http://blog.icann.org/2013/04/dns-summit-in-new-york/ Kind regards, Gabi

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ICANN opens hub office in Istanbul, Turkey
by Gabriella Schittek April 25, 2013

April 25, 2013

Dear all, ICANN announces it opens a hub office in Istanbul, Turkey: http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-25apr13-en.pdf Kind regards, Gabi

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IMPORTANT Information on Upcoming Members Vote on IDN ccPDP
by Gabriella Schittek April 25, 2013

April 25, 2013

Dear all, At its meeting in Beijing, the ccNSO Council adopted all the proposals of the working groups relating to the selection of an IDN ccTLD string and inclusion of IDN ccTLDs in the ccNSO under the Internationalised Domain Names country code Policy Development Process (IDN ccPDP). As a result, they are now a ccNSO Council Recommendation and this is presented as such to the ccNSO Membership in the Members Report of the IDN ccPDP. The report has been published at http://ccnso.icann.org/node/38473. According to Annex B (paragraph 13) of the ICANN Bylaws (http://www.icann.org/en/about/governance/bylaws#AnnexB) the ccNSO members shall be given the opportunity to vote on the Council Recommendation. The voting period starts on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:00 UTC and ends on Tuesday, 11 June 2013 00:00 UTC. The vote will be carried out electronically. The ccNSO primary contact of each member ccTLD will receive an electronic ballot, to cast a vote with. If you haven't done so recently, please, check with the ccNSO Secretariat who your primary contact is! Please, do so before 15 May 2013. Please, be aware that the IANA database is not linked to the ccNSO database in any way i.e. even if the IANA database is updated, this doesn't mean that our database has the correct information. For those of you who feel that you know too little about the issues and full set of proposals and would like to learn more before voting, we will host a webinar on 15 May at 08.00 and 19.00 UTC. During this webinar, the Council Recommendation will be presented as well as an overview on how the voting procedure will work. Information on how to attend the webinar will be sent to you in a separate email. You may be aware that voting in a Policy Development Process rarely happens within the ccNSO. In fact, this has only happened once before (on the ccNSO Bylaws changes in 2005). You may also be aware that according to the rules of the ccNSO PDP in the first round of voting at least 50% of the Membership has to cast a vote in order to be valid. If 50% or less of the Members vote in the first round, a second round of voting is foreseen without the quorum rule. We would therefore be really grateful if as many members as possible would use the opportunity to vote in the first round on this very important issue. For avoidance of doubt and to be complete, in order for the ccNSO Council Recommendation to be adopted at least 66% of the Members votes cast need to be in favour of the Council Recommendation, either in the first or second round. Please, let me know if you have any questions! Kind regards, Gabi

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Public comment on GAC's new gTLD Advice to the ICANN Board
by Vika Mpisane April 25, 2013

April 25, 2013

Dear Councillors, ICANN is seeking input from the community about "how the New gTLD Board Committee should address GAC advice regarding safeguards applicable to broad categories of New gTLD strings". This follows the GAC Communique issued at the end of the Beijing meeting giving varying advice to Board about a number of new gTLD applications. I am checking to see if the council thinks the ccNSO should make any statement/comment about this matter. If so, I will leave it to the Council Chair & Secretariat to give a direction about this should be approached. For more info, please go to http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/gac-safeguard-advice-23apr13-en. htm. Regards, Vika

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Beijing Meeting Survey Results
by Gabriella Schittek April 22, 2013

April 22, 2013

Dear all, Many thanks to all of you who took your time to fill in the survey on your impressions of the ccNSO members meeting in Beijing. The results can be viewed at: Members Meeting Survey Results Day 1: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=XQCcBJ2AeWz3vDc_2fDH8gBXbjBAWQFYmt9YE YSExm7hM_3d Members Meeting Survey Results Day 2: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=6udc1KWQMRkkQacSeq2nZr_2bivr5MFsH_2b3 eXB2RltzhA_3d The input will be analysed by the Meetings Programme Working Group and we will try to incorporate as many of your suggestions as possible. Kind regards, Gabi

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Submission Members Report and pre-warning ccNSO members vote
by Bart Boswinkel April 19, 2013

April 19, 2013

Dear all, As you may have noted the IDN ccPDP is reaching its final stages. At its meeting on 10 April 2013, the ccNSO Council has unanimously adopted all the recommendations contained in the Final Report on the IDN ccPDP. As a result all policy recommendation relating to the selection of IDN ccTLD strings and inclusion of IDN ccTLD's in the ccNSO are now the ccNSO Council Recommendation in accordance with section 11 of Annex B of the ICANN Bylaws on the ccNSO Policy development Process. The Council Recommendation and related Council Resolution have been incorporated in the Members Report, which is now posted (IDN ccPDP Members Report <http://ccnso.icann.org/node/38473> ) and submitted to you as members of the ccNSO. Following this submission, and according to the ccNSO PDP rules (section 13), you as members of the ccNSO will be given the opportunity to vote electronically on the Council Recommendation. In preparation of the voting we will send you additional information from the ccNSO secretariat on the voting process. In terms of the ccNSO PDP we are now at the ccNSO members vote stage (see: ccNSO PDP Process in Graphs <http://ccnso.icann.org/policy/pdp-15jan13-en.pdf> ). If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me, Kind regards, Bart

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Re: [ccnso-council] Report on Session on Global Stakeholder Engagement
by Hong Xue April 16, 2013

April 16, 2013

I participated the session "Global Stakeholder Engagement" at 11:00-12:00 on Thursday April 11 in Grand Hall A. ICANN GSE team formed 4 teams on "Collateral", "Conferences, event and speaker panels, workshops", "Digital engagement", and "Populating the ‘Waffle’model (community self-assessment)" respectively. The team outlined the different engagement models, from "Inform, Raise Awareness and Initiate Engagement", "contribution to policy" to "access to public at-large". Each team had its own discussions and then presented its suggestions to the whole group. The suggestions included pursuing outreach beyond 3 ICANN meetings, improving translation/interpretation quality, and developing Waffel mode in which ICANN will developed more programs and tools from region to region and from SG to SG. Generally, it seems ICANN is building a huge GSE program with significant budget and resource impact. On the other hand, ICANN has not been able to effectively link up its various programs and tools in its institutional matrix. There are other councilors present at the session and I'm sure they could have more insightful reports. Best, Hong -- Professor Dr. Hong Xue Director of Institute for the Internet Policy & Law (IIPL) Beijing Normal University http://www.iipl.org.cn/ 19 Xin Jie Kou Wai Street Beijing 100875 China

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ICANN - LAC outreach strategy
by Carolina Aguerre April 15, 2013

April 15, 2013

Dear Councillors, Herewith an update of the presentation of the ICANN outreach strategy in the LAC region, presented on 10 April (during the Council Meeting). 1.This is the outcome of a process that began formally on 21 December 2012 and which is now reaching its final phases. It is worth noting that the presentation is a _draft document_ since the projects and their respective indicators which are mentioned have not been assessed formally by the Working Group. 2.This WG is comprised by the following: - Andres Piazza (LACNIC) - Oscar Robles (LACNIC Chair + nic.mx) - Hartmut Glaser (cgi.br + LACNIC) - Vanda Scartazzini (Polo consultores, private sector + NOMCOM) - Alejandro Pisanty (ISOC Mexico) - Raimundo Becca (ICANN board) - Fatima Cambronero (AGEIA DENSI, LACRALO, civil society) - Dev Anand Teelucksingh(Civil society, LACRALO, Trinidad Tobago) - Olga Cavalli (GAC + South School of Internet Governance) - Tracy Hackshaw (Trinidad & Tobago Government - GAC) - Carolina Aguerre (LACTLD) - Eduardo Santoyo (LACTLD + .CO) - Anthony Harris (CABASE, private sector) - Celia Lerman (eInstituto, Private sector) - Victor Martinez (Mexican government, GAC) 3.The session was moderated by ICANN's VP for the region (Rodrigo de la Parra). Board Members (Raimundo Becca, Gonzalo Navarro, Erika Mann and Baher Esmat were present), as well as Fadi Chehadé and Steve Crocker who were part of the commentators/presenters. 4.The strategy is comprised by 4 thematic areas: *Political Issues; Capacity Building and Outreach; Operations;Economic Issues*. Each of these areas have to comply with at least one of ICANN's strategic areas (i.e. (i) DNS security and stability; (ii) Core Operations including IANA; (iii) Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice and (iv) Healthy Internet Ecosystem). For more information please refer to the attached power point. 5.The following are the objectives for each area: *a.**Political Issues:* Security, Stability and Resiliency of ccTLDs Engagement with Regional Organizations (/NB: not only ccTLD ROs/) Strengthen the Multistakeholder Model Accountability of organizations with ICANN funding *b.**Capacity Building and Outreach:* Regional Capacity Building Programs Capacity Building for Governments Capacity Building for Users Capacity Building in Technical Aspects of the DNS Participation Schemes Strengthen Regional Participation Participation of Corporations and Organizations Participation of Academia Participation of Other Stakeholders *c.**Operations* Security, Stability and Resiliency of the DNS Adequate deployment of IPv6 Operational Capacity of ccTLDs Implementation of the new gTLD program *d.**Economic Issues* Improve design of ICANN meetings. Reduce participation barriers. Promote the accreditation of Registrars and Back-End Registries in the region Promote the emergence of new related services in the region Create a UDRP provider based in the region and responsive to the region's needs Support ccTLDs in the development of self-sustaining models and in the sale of domain names 6.The working group has to refine objectives, projects and indicators before the next public presentation of the document which will take place during the LACNIC - LACTLD Joint Meeting in Medellín, Colombia on 6 May. 7.If you would like to read the full power point available, please don´t hesitate to contact me (I have not sent it since it is 14 MB). --

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