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Invitation to ccTLD Community Cocktail Buenos Aires
by Gabriella Schittek Nov. 13, 2013

Nov. 13, 2013

Dear all, On behalf of our Argentinian hosts and all sponsors, I would like to invite all ccTLD community members to join our ccNSO Cocktail on Tuesday, 19 November. The cocktail will take place at "Madero Tango" with buses starting to depart from Hotel Sheraton Park Tower at 18.30. Tickets are not needed, but invitations with all information will be distributed during the ccNSO meeting. Many thanks to our generous sponsors who made this event possible: NIC Argentina (.ar), Nominet (.uk), .CO Internet (.co), SIDN (.nl), NIC.pr (.pr), NIC Chile (.cl) and LACTLD Also, a special thanks to Marcelo Martinez from .ar for organising the event and Sofia Zerbino from LACTLD for the coordination. Kind regards, Gabi

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Recordings Framework of Interpretation Webinar 12 November
by Kristina Nordstrom Nov. 12, 2013

Nov. 12, 2013

Dear all, Please find below the recordings of the Framework of Interpretation Webinar on Revocation today 12 November. Mp3<http://audio.icann.org/ccnso/ccnso-foi-20131112-en.mp3> (audio recording) Adobe Connect Recording<https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p7lp4od2qsc/> (visual recording including slides) Kind regards, Kristina

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Formal Extension Election Councilor NA region until 13 November 2013
by Bart Boswinkel Nov. 12, 2013

Nov. 12, 2013

Dear all, Today the nomination for the candidacy for the Council from the NA region was seconded. To ensure that the nomination and seconding process is in accordance with and sanctioned by the Council the election period for NA was extended until Wednesday 13 November 2013. If you have any objection, please email to the list as soon as possible, but no later then 13 November 2013, 11 pm UTC. Thank you and kind regards, Bart

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Join! FoI Webinar on the topic of Revocation / 12 November 11:00 UTC
by Kristina Nordstrom Nov. 12, 2013

Nov. 12, 2013

Dear all, The ccNSO Framework of Interpretation Working Group (FoI WG) has published its initial interpretations of current policy and guidelines related to "Revocation", which is defined as redelgations undertaken without the consent of the ccTLD manager. "Revocation" refers to the process by which the IANAOperator rescinds responsibility for management of a ccTLD from a manager. To give a better idea of the progress made to date and an opportunity to answer questions from community members, there will be a webinar on this topic on: Tuesday 12 November at 11:00 UTC Please see dial in details below and let me know as soon as possible if you need dial out assistance. Dial in numbers: http://www.adigo.com/icann/ Conference ID: 5258 Adobe Room: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/ccnso2013/ There will be a two-way audio connection in the Adobe Room. The meeting will be recorded and posted online for those who will not be able to join. Kind regards, Kristina

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A update on ICANN Academy WG Activities
by Hong Xue Nov. 12, 2013

Nov. 12, 2013

Dear All, The first Pilot Leadership Training Program will take place in Buenos Aires. The final program is attached. The interest of most AS/SO was remarkable. Overall there are around 25 participants. In order to accommodate as many participants as possible, no additional trainers are assigned. Instead experienced participants will facilitate a session on a topic they have an expertise on. The regularly scheduled ICANN Academy Working Group meeting will serve as the feedback session from participants. This session will be utmost important in terms of reviewing and deciding if and how to move forward with this pilot program. I have to attend the ICANN Academy WG meeting on Wednesday, 20 Nov. 2013 , from 9 – 10.30 in Room Atalya. http://buenosaires48.icann.org/en/schedule/wed-academy. Apologies, I cannot join the ccNSO meeting at the same time. 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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Endorsement Council of letter of SOP WG
by Bart Boswinkel Nov. 11, 2013

Nov. 11, 2013

Dear all, As you will have noted Roelof in his capacity as chair of the SOP WG has send a letter to Steve Crocker and Fadi Chehade, the letter is included and can also be found on the ccNSO home page ( http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-3-04nov13-en.htm) . The chair of the ccNSO Council proposes that the ccNSO Council endorses this letter of the SOP WG. If you have any objection or want to abstain, please email so to this list by Wednesday 13 November 2013, 5 pm UTC. If the Council endorses the letter, a statement to that effect will be posted on the website, Kind regards, Bart

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DECISION NEEDED: (Triage 17-2013) ATRT 2 Recommendations
by Gabriella Schittek Nov. 9, 2013

Nov. 9, 2013

Dear Councillors, As you may know, the ATRT 2 has published a report + has listed a number of recommendations, which they wish to receive input to by 22 November 2013. Whilst it is an important document, it is also massive and the recommendations many - and the time frame to reply to it is very short. The Triage group has therefore been thinking of how to most efficiently gather input from the Council and community and is suggesting following: 1) Extract those topics that are of interest to the ccTLDs 2) Get Councillors to volunteer to focus and take the lead on one of the topics during this week - their role would be to coordinate questions/remarks. 3) Make a call for Volunteers from the community to prepare input (which can be questions and/or comments posted by email either before the Buenos Aires Meeting, or during the Buenos Aires Meeting - we have scheduled a session with the ATRT 2 team on Tuesday afternoon) To point 1 - The topics have already been extracted: * Section/recomendation 1-3 on quality of the Board * Section/Recommendation 4: mechanism for SO/AC consultation on executive and administrative issues to be addressed at Board level * Section/Recommendation 7: explore mechanisms to improve public comment through adjusted time allotments * Section/Recommendation 8: capacity of language services to increase participation * Section/Recommendation 9, and it sub recommendations ( consideration of decision-making inputs and appeal processes * Section/Recommendation 11: effectiveness of Review Process and its sub-recomendations * Section/Recommendation 12: Financial Accountability and Transparency * Section /recommendation 10: Although focused on GNSO PDP may have some impact on ccNSO. Please, let me know if you agree on this way forward by the end of Friday, 1 November - AND - if you agree - which topic you could take the lead on! Thanks! Gabi Originator: ATRT 2 Summary of request: The ATRT 2 is requesting the community to deliver input to their Draft Report and Recommendations (see http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-21oct13-en.htm) covering a broad range of issues. Date received: 22 October 2013 Last day for Comments/input/response, if any: 22 November 2013 Recommended action, if any: Extract relevant topics; ask Councillors to take lead on one topic each, involve Community in providing feedback to the ATRT on the different sets of recommendations of interest either per email or during meeting in Buenos Aires. Executive summary sections, which are of interest to the ccNSO and need to be covered: * Section/recomendation 1-3 on quality of the Board * Section/Recommendation 4: mechanism for SO/AC consultation on executive and administrative issues to be addressed at Board level * Section/Recommendation 7: explore mechanisms to improve public comment through adjusted time allotments * Section/Recommendation 8: capacity of language services to increase participation * Section/Recommendation 9, and it sub recommendations ( consideration of decision-making inputs and appeal processes * Section/Recommendation 11: effectiveness of Review Process and its sub-recomendations * Section/Recommendation 12: Financial Accountability and Transparency * Section /recommendation 10: Although focused on GNSO PDP may have some impact on ccNSO. Expertise needed, if any: Various Date of submission to Council: 30 October 2013 Last date of Council decision: 1 November 2013 Impact on ccNSO/ccTLDs: Middle/high

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Your help needed - input to ATRT 2 Report & Recommendations
by Gabriella Schittek Nov. 6, 2013

Nov. 6, 2013

Dear all, As you may know, ICANN's Accountability and Transparency Review Team 2 (ATRT2) has published a draft report + has listed a number of recommendations, which they wish to receive input to by 22 November 2013. The report is available at http://www.icann.org/en/about/aoc-review/atrt/draft-recommendations-15oct13- en.pdf Whilst it is an important document, it is also massive and the recommendations many - and the time frame to reply to it is very short. In order to gather input from the ccTLD Community in an efficient way, the ccNSO Council decided to extract the topics that seem to be of most interest to ccTLDs and then ask Community members to prepare input to the topics that are of interest to them. The input can be in the form of questions and/or comments. Each topic is "lead" by one or two Councillors, which will gather the input received. It will then be presented to the ATRT 2 team, which we will meet with during the Buenos Aires meeting (Tuesday afternoon). The identified topics are: * Section/recomendation 1-3 on quality of the Board * Section/Recommendation 4: mechanism for SO/AC consultation on executive and administrative issues to be addressed at Board level * Section/Recommendation 7: explore mechanisms to improve public comment through adjusted time allotments * Section/Recommendation 8: capacity of language services to increase participation * Section/Recommendation 9, sub recommendations consideration of decision-making inputs and appeal processes * Section/Recommendation 11: effectiveness of Review Process and its sub-recomendations * Section/Recommendation 12: Financial Accountability and Transparency If you have an interest in any of these topics and are willing to contribute please, let me know by Thursday, 7 November, at the latest! Your names will then be forwarded to the designated Councillor(s), who will contact you during the coming week. We really need your help and support, so we are hoping to hear from as many of you as possible! Kind regards, Gabi

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Extended nomination period Council Elections North American Region
by Gabriella Schittek Nov. 6, 2013

Nov. 6, 2013

Dear all, The nomination period to the ccNSO Council closed on 4 November at 00.00 UTC. However, no candidates to the North American region were nominated. The ccNSO Council has therefore agreed to extend the nomination period for the North American region only until Saturday, 9 November 00.00 UTC. Details on how to nominate and second a candidate can be found at http://ccnso.icann.org/about/elections/call-for-nominations-14oct13-en.htm Kind regards, Gabi

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Draft Letter SOP WG -Crocker&Chehade oct2013
by Roelof Meijer Nov. 6, 2013

Nov. 6, 2013

Dear Collegues, As a follow-up on our previous exchange and my correspondence to Xavier Calvez, please receive herewith the draft of the letter I would like tos end to Steve Crocker and Fadi Chehade re the lack of any reasonable responses and or actions to improve based on the comments the SOP has submitted over the years. Please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions to change, if at all possible before the end of Friday Best regards, Roelof Meijer

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