August 2013 - Ccnso-council

Results of members vote on IDN ccPDP Council Recommendation
by Bart Boswinkel Aug. 14, 2013

Aug. 14, 2013

Dear all, Yesterday, 13 August at 23.59 UTC the voting on the ccNSO Council Recommendation closed. At closure 71 votes were received out of 138 eligible votes (51%). Out of these 71 votes, 65 votes were in favor of the Council Recommendation ( 91 %), 2 against, and 4 abstention votes. As a result, and in accordance with section 13 of the ccPDP rules ( Annex B of the ICANN Bylaws), the Recommendation has been adopted by the members and will be conveyed to the Board as as the ccNSO Recommendation. The results of the voting itself are available at https://tally.icann.org/cgi/results?e=dd3fa9d5ae8 (this provides you the opportunity to check that your ballot number was received and correctly counted). Please, note, that due to technical reasons one vote has not been registered in this system. It was submitted and counted by email vote. Two votes cast were duplicates. In this case, only the last vote was counted. On behalf of the secretariat I want to thank all of you who have participated in the vote, Kind regards, Bart

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Second and Final ccNSO members vote IDN ccTLD policy development process
by Bart Boswinkel Aug. 12, 2013

Aug. 12, 2013

Dear all, The ccNSO members have the opportunity to vote on the ccNSO Council Recommendation as part of the ccNSO policy development process. As the first round of voting did not meet the required quorum for the first round ( at least 50 % of the membership needed to cast a vote), a second and final round of voting starts on Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:00 UTC and ends on Tuesday, 13 August 2013 23:59 UTC. The vote will be carried out electronically. Only the ccNSO primary contact of each member ccTLD will receive an electronic ballot at the email address listed with the ccNSO secretariat. Please note this ballot is send by tally(a)tally.icann.org and will be send out shortly. If the primary contact for your ccTLD has not received the ballot by tomorrow this time, one of the following issues may be at hand: * The primary contact as listed with the ccNSO secretariat is no longer the primary contact with your ccTLD. * The email address as listed with the secretariat is no longer valid as the email address of the ccNSO representative for your ccTLD. Please, check with the ccNSO Secretariat who your primary contact is, and this persons contact details! Please, do so as soon as possible! A second issue, which has arisen in the past, is that the ballot email from tally(a)tally.icann.org is caught as "spam" by some spam filters. If you are sure the contact details etc. are correct, please check your spam filter. In any case, if you or any other person in your registry has not received the ballot email by tomorrow, please do not hesitate to contact the ccNSO secretariat. Background/ What is the ccNSO Council Recommendation? 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. 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, the IDN ccPDP Webinar of 15 May at 08.00 and 19.00 UTC has been posted on the ccNSO website. 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). We would therefore be really grateful if as many members as possible would use the opportunity to vote on this very important topic. Over the next weeks, leading up to 13 August, we will keep you abreast of the progress on the voting. Finally, if you have any questions relating to the ccNSO members vote, please do not hesitate to contact us! Kind regards, Bart

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Council Call on 20 August CANCELLED
by Kristina Nordstrom Aug. 12, 2013

Aug. 12, 2013

Dear all, Due to the summer holidays in some parts of the world and a lack of subjects to raise, the Council call on 20 August will be CANCELLED. Any emerging topics will be dealt with on the email list. The next Council call will take place on 10 September. Kind regards, Kristina

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Current results IDN ccPDP Vote
by Gabriella Schittek Aug. 12, 2013

Aug. 12, 2013

Dear Councillors, The last day for voting on the IDN ccPDP is tomorrow, 13 August. The current results are below. == 63 votes received in total. Africa: 6 votes (.ci, .ga, .mw, .na, .tz, .za) Asia Pacific: 19 votes (.af, .au, .az, .cn, .cx, .hk, .ir, .iq, .jo, .jp, .kr, .mn, .mv, .my, .nu, .nz , .sg, .tl, .tw) Europe: 19 votes (.cz, .de, .eu, .fi, .fo, .fr, .gr, .is, .lt, .lv, .md, .nl, .no, .pl, .ru, .se, .sk, .sx, .uk) Latin America & Caribbean: 16 votes (.ar, .br, .cl, .co, .cr, .cu, .ec, .gt, .lc, .mx, .pa, .pe, .sv, .tt, .uy, .ve) North America: 3 votes (.ca, .us, .vi) == Kind regards, Gabi

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Current results IDN ccPDP Vote
by Gabriella Schittek Aug. 7, 2013

Aug. 7, 2013

Dear Councillors, According to the IDN ccPDP resolution, which was passed in Durban, the voting manager (myself) is to inform you on the progress of the IDN ccPDP vote regularly, starting one week into the process. ("As voting manager Gabriella Schittek is requested to inform the ccNSO membership and Council, including the Observers, on progress of the voting 1 week, 2 weeks into the process and 3 days before its closure.") On Wednesday, the first week of the second round of voting has passed. However, as I will be on holiday (starting tomorrow), I will give you the status as of today: === 41 votes received in total. Africa: 3 votes (.ga, .mw, .tz) Asia Pacific: 16 votes (.af, .au, .az, .cx, .hk, .ir, .jo, .jp, .kr, .mn, .mv, .my, .nu, .nz , .tl, .tw) Europe: 14 votes (.cz, .eu, .fr, .gr, .is, .lv, .md, .nl, .no, .pl, .se, .sk, .sx, .uk) Latin America & Caribbean: 7 votes (.cl, .co, .gt, .lc, .mx, .sv, .tt) North America: 0 votes === Kind regards, Gabi

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Request for input to Geographic Regions Final Report
by Gabriella Schittek Aug. 5, 2013

Aug. 5, 2013

Dear Councillor, This is another request that went to the Triage group. As only two persons currently are serving on that group and one of them was on holiday, only one has agreed to the recommendation. Unless anyone objects by Thursday, 18 July, we will move forward with the recommendation (Re-establish Drafting Team that commented on previous Geographic Regions Report, let the team draft input on ICANN Geographic Regions Working Group Report). Gabi == Topic: Request for Input to ICANN Geographic Regions Working Group Report Originator: ICANN Geographic Regions Working Group Summary of request: The Report contains recommendations to the ICANN Board about the application and future use of the ICANN Geographic Regions framework. The Working Group was formed by the Board to (1) identify the different purposes for which ICANN¹s Geographic Regions are used; (2) determine whether the uses of ICANN¹s Geographic Regions (as currently defined, or at all) continue to meet the requirements of the relevant stakeholders; and (3) submit proposals for community and Board consideration relating to the current and future uses and definition of the ICANN Geographic Regions. The Final Report is available at http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-22jun13-en.htm. Date received: 8 July 2013 Last day for Comments/input/response, if any: 17 October 2013 Recommended action, if any: Re-establish Drafting Team that commented on previous Geographic Regions Report, let the team draft input. Expertise needed, if any: - Date of submission to Council: 11 July 2013 Last date of Council decision: 15 July 2013 Impact on ccNSO/ccTLDs: Middle-High

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ccNSO Activity Summary July 2013
by Gabriella Schittek Aug. 1, 2013

Aug. 1, 2013

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Council minutes Durban
by Kristina Nordstrom Aug. 1, 2013

Aug. 1, 2013

Dear all, Please find attached the Council minutes from Durban and let me know before 6 August if you wish to make any amendments. Kind regards, Kristina

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