August 2014 - Ccnso-council

ICG Third Conference Call
by Gabriella Schittek Aug. 26, 2014

Aug. 26, 2014

Dear all, The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) will hold its third conference call on Tuesday, 26 August 2014, from 12:00-13:00 UTC. The community is welcome to attend by way of a listen-only mode. For information on how to join, see https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-08-25-en For more information about the ICG and the IANA Stewardship Transition, see: https://www.icann.org/stewardship Kind regards, Gabi

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Call for Nominations: Cross Community WG to Develop IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions
by Gabriella Schittek Aug. 25, 2014

Aug. 25, 2014

Call for Nominations for ccTLD Managers to Participate in the Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions Summary The ccNSO will participate in the Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions (CWG), which is being formed as part of the process to develop an IANA stewardship transition proposal, specifically for the Naming related Functions. The ccNSO has been asked to appoint up to five (5) members of the CWG. The purpose of this email is to seek nominations for these five (5) places. The ccNSO Council will appoint the members to the CWG at its meeting on 25 September 2014. Background On 14 March 2014 the US Department of Commerce¹s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intent to transition stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions to the global multistakeholder community. The NTIA asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), as the IANA functions contractor and global coordinator for the Domain Name System (DNS), to convene a multistakeholder process to develop a proposal for the transition. IANA also said that the transition proposal must have broad community support and address the following four principles: · Support and enhance the multistakeholder model; · Maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet DNS; · Meet the needs and expectation of the global customers and partners of the IANA services; and, · Maintain the openness of the Internet. The NTIA also said that it will not accept a proposal that replaces the NTIA role with a government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution. Full details of IANA¹s announcement are available at: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition- key-internet-domain-name-functions. On June 6 ICANN proposed the creation of an IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) ³responsible for preparing a transition proposal reflecting the differing needs of the various affected parties of the IANA functions.² Two subsets of IANA¹s global customers/partners, the addressing and Internet protocol parameter communities, led by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the number resource community comprising the Number Resource Organization (NRO), the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) and the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), have responded to the NTIA¹s announcement and the formation of the ICG, by establishing working groups to provide input on their specific needs and expectations with respect to the IANA Stewardship Transition. It was determined that the transition proposal should be developed within the directly affected communities (i.e. the IETF for development of standards for Internet Protocol Parameters; the NRO, the ASO, and the RIRs for functions related the management and distribution of numbering resources; and the GNSO and ccNSO for functions related to the Domain Name System). These efforts would inform the work of the ICG, whose responsibility would be to fashion an overall integrated transition proposal from these autonomously developed components. Therefore there is a need for the naming community to come together to articulate its needs and expectations in an integrated fashion, as an integral part of this transition process, and to develop a proposal for the elements of the IANA Stewardship Transition that directly affect the naming community. The ccNSO Council together with GNSO Council have taken the initiative to create a cross-community working group. At its meeting on 21 August adopted the charter of the Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions. The adopted charter can be found at: <include link> ccTLD Participation on the Cross-Community Working Group In accordance with the adopted charter of the CWG the ccNSO (as well as each of the other chartering organizations) shall appoint a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 5 members to the working group. The ccNSO Council decided as usual- that membership of the CWG is open to both ccNSO members and non-ccNSO members. In addition, the CWG will be open to any interested person as an observer. Observers may be from the ccNSO, from a stakeholder group not represented in the CWG, or may be self-appointed. Observers will be able to actively participate in and attend all CWG meetings. However, any consensus calls or decisions that need to be made will be limited to CWG members appointed by the ccNSO and the other chartering organizations. Call for membership Nominations The ccNSO Council is seeking nominations from ccTLD managers (independent of ccNSO membership), who might wish to serve as one of the five (5) ccTLD members on the cross-community working group. Candidates are expected to have: · A thorough understanding of operating requirements of a ccTLD manager, · Commit to actively participate in the activities of the CWG on an ongoing and long-term basis; and · Where appropriate, solicit and communicate the views and concerns of individuals from the ccTLD community. · Effective communication skills in order to represent ccTLD interests on the ccWG and to keep the ccNSO and broader ccTLD community abreast of the state of play in the cross-community group. Candidates for this role are requested to provide the ccNSO (ccNSOsecretariat(a)icann.org ) with the following by 11 September 2014, 23.59 UTC). · a recent curriculum vitae summarizing background and experience, including that in ccTLD operations, and · a statement of what the candidate sees as being the main objectives that ccTLD operators should be seeking in an IANA transition proposal. The list of nominations will be made public after closure of the nomination period. The ccNSO Council will make select and appoint the five members on the WG at its meeting on 25 September 2014, based on the selection criteria mentioned above and taking into account the diversity of the ccTLD community, including geographical diversity. Interviews of shortlisted candidates may be conducted.

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FAQ site on ICANN's Accountability Process
by Gabriella Schittek Aug. 25, 2014

Aug. 25, 2014

Dear all, ICANN has launched a FAQ page for questions on ICANN's Accountability and Governance: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/enhancing-accountability-faqs-2014-08- 22-en and https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-22-en Kind regards, Gabi

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ICANN Board WG report on NomCom for public comments
by Gabriella Schittek Aug. 25, 2014

Aug. 25, 2014

Dear all, ICANN's Board Working Group on the Nominating Committee (BWG-NomCom) has published a report on the Nominating Committee (NomCom), including 15 recommendations on its size and composition, as well as the NomCom's recruitment and selection functions: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/bwg-nomcom-2014-08-21-en Comments are welcome by 21 October 2014. Kind regards, Gabi

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Introduction of Two-Character Domain Names for .SOHU, .IMMO, .SAARLAND, .CLUB
by Gabriella Schittek Aug. 25, 2014

Aug. 25, 2014

Dear all, Four Registry Services Evaluation Process (RSEP) requests have been submitted by the registry operators for .club, .saarland, .immo and .sohu to allow the introduction of two-character domain names for these four TLDs. Public comments are welcome until 9 September 2014: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-08-19-en Kind regards, Gabi

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Updated Resolution 7.2 Council meeting 21 August 2014
by Bart Boswinkel Aug. 22, 2014

Aug. 22, 2014

Dear all, Please find included the updated resolution per Council discussion yesterday. Once Gabi has returned from holidays, the call for volunteers will be send out to the following lists: * ccTLDworld(a)icann.org (the newly created email list). * cctldcommunity(a)cctld-managers.org list * ccnso-members(a)icann.org list I hope, although not discussed yesterday, that the Regional Organizations will forward the email/announcement. Kind regards, Bart Updated resolution ============================================ New text Resolution 7.2, including the friendly amendment (amendment highlighted in yellow) The secretariat is requested to send out the approved call for self-nominations as soon as possible on all the relevant email lists, among others, but not limited to, the ccTLD World(a)icann.org<mailto:World@icann.org> list, and announce it on the ccNSO website. The names of the Nominees shall be published on the ccNSO Website upon receiving the nomination. If more then five( 5) people have nominated for membership, the ccNSO Council will select the member for the ccWG, at its next meeting, based on the selection criteria listed in the call for nominations. Those who were not selected, are encouraged to participate as observers. Original Resolution 7.2 The secretariat is requested to send out the approved call for self-nominations as soon as possible on the relevant email lists and announce it on the ccNSO website. The names of the Nominees shall be published on the ccNSO Website upon receiving the nomination. If more then five( 5) people have nominated for membership, the ccNSO Council will select the member for the ccWG, at its next meeting, based on the selection criteria listed in the call for nominations. Those who were not selected, are encouraged to participate as observers.

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Summary SECIR Conference Call #2
by Kristina Nordstrom Aug. 22, 2014

Aug. 22, 2014

Dear all, Please find below a summary of the second SECIR conference call, forwarded on behalf of the working group chair Cristian Hesselman. Kind regards, Kristina ====== Summary SECIR Conference Call #2 The ccNSO working group "Secure Email Communication for cccTLD Incident Response" (SECIR) held its second conference call on Tue Aug 20. We briefly reviewed the work we carried out since our last call, which consisted of a first analysis of (1) the pros and cons of several alternative designs for the two SECIR services (contact repository and secure messaging service) and (2) the possible technical components that we could use to implement them. We will use this analysis to decide on a design for the SECIR services and how to implement them. We agreed that our analysis should be clear but concise as our goal is to have a working system at the end of this year. To enable the community to follow the WG's design decisions and underlying rationale, we will document the analysis in the WG's final report and will report back to the community on our intermediate results at the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles. We will be using the time until the next call (Sep 2) to refine our analysis. SECIR charter: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/secir.htm Members: Erwin Lansing (.dk), Jacques Latour (.ca), Frederico Neves (.br), Abibu Ntahigiye (.tz), Geng-Da Tsai (.tw), and Cristian Hesselman (.nl, chair) Cristian Hesselman Manager SIDN Labs

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Item 6.1 Friendly amendment proposed by DT members to section II of draft ccWG charter Stewardship Transition Process
by Bart Boswinkel Aug. 21, 2014

Aug. 21, 2014

Dear all, Please find included the text of the friendly amendment to the charter for the ccWG (item 6.1 on the agenda). The charter, including the proposed sentence has been submitted to other SO's and AC's Kind regards, Bart

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Status Update Action Items
by Kristina Nordstrom Aug. 21, 2014

Aug. 21, 2014

Dear all, Please find below a list of the action items from the previous Council meeting. All actions are completed. Kind regards, Kristina Action 96-01: The Secretariat to inform the SOP Working Group about the appointment of Giovanni Seppia as interim chair of the Working Group. Action 96-02: The secretariat to inform the GNSO and the GNSO appointed co-chairs of the Working Group about the appointment of Lise Fuhr as ccNSO co-chair of the Working Group. Action 96-03: The Secretariat to inform the GNSO and the GNSO appointed co-chair of the Working Group about the appointment of Becky Burr as co-chair of the Working Group for the Development of a Framework of Principles for Cross-Community Working Groups. Action 96-04: The Secretariat to send out a call to the ccTLD community for the 4 volunteers to the charter drafting team as soon as possible after closure of the Council meeting and to indicate in the call that those who are interested may attend the informal meeting of the envisioned drafting group during the London meeting. Action 96-05: The Chair to seek members and nominate the members of the selection committee as soon as possible and send it to the Council for final approval by 26 June noon UTC. Action 96-06: The Secretariat to set-up an email list, including email contacts to all ccTLDs, solely for the purpose to inform and engage the community in the IANA Stewardship Transition Process. Action 96-07: The Chair to finalize the call for nominations, including the criteria for selection of the 4 ccTLD members on the Coordination Committee and send it to the Council for final approval by 26 June noon UTC. Action 96-08: The secretariat to send out the approved call for self-nominations and refer the nominations received to the Selection Committee upon receiving the nomination. Action 96-09: The Secretariat to publish the names of the nominees for the IANA Coordination Committee on the ccNSO Website. Action 96-10: The Secretariat to draft a charter for a coordination committee on IANA Stewardship Transition and Accountability.

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Reminder: Dial in details Council Call 21 August 12:00 UTC
by Kristina Nordstrom Aug. 21, 2014

Aug. 21, 2014

Dear all, The next Council call will take place today on 21 August at 12:00 UTC. Please find the dial in details below: Dial in numbers: http://www.adigo.com/icann/ Conference ID: 5258 Adobe Room: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/ccnsocouncil/ Two-way audio will be available in the Adobe Room. Kind regards, Kristina

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