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Approval of Working Group Candidates
by Gabriella Schittek May 2, 2013

May 2, 2013

Dear Councillors, We have two candidates to two of our Working Groups: Loic Damilaville, .fr wishes to join the SOP Working Group Alejandra Reynoso Barral, .gt wishes to join the Programme Working Group Both have been approved by the Working Group Chairs and members. Please, let me know if you object to any of these two candidates joining the respective group by Thursday, 16 May at the latest. If no objection is received by then, the candidates have been approved as members. Kind regards, Gabi

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ICANN Fellowship Programme Opens for Buenos Aires Applications
by Gabriella Schittek May 2, 2013

May 2, 2013

Dear all, ICANN's Fellowship Programme is now opening for applications to the ICANN Meeting in Buenos Aires 17-21 November 2013: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-01may13en.htm Please, note that the Fellowship Programme differs from the ccNSO Funding scheme (you can read more about the difference at http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/ccnso-travel-funding-04dec08.htm) The call for applicants for ccNSO Travel Funding to the Buenos Aires meeting will not open until early July 2013. Kind regards, Gabi

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ccNSO Activity Summary April 2013
by Gabriella Schittek May 1, 2013

May 1, 2013

ccNSO Activity Summary April 2013 Beijing Meeting ICANN Beijing Meetings page: http://beijing46.icann.org/ ccNSO Meetings page: https://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/beijing <https://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/beijing> ccNSO Presentations: https://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/beijing/presentations.htm <https://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/beijing/presentations.htm> ccNSO Meetings Audio and Transcripts: http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar <http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar> Tech Day Presentations: http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/beijing/workshop.htm <http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/beijing/workshop.htm> IDN ccPDP Final IDN ccPDP Report: http://ccnso.icann.org/node/37899 <http://ccnso.icann.org/node/37899> Survey Results Members Meeting Survey Results Day 1: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=XQCcBJ2AeWz3vDc_2fDH8gBXbjBAWQFYmt9YE YSExm7hM_3d <http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=XQCcBJ2AeWz3vDc_2fDH8gBXbjBAWQFYmt9Y EYSExm7hM_3d> Members Meeting Survey Results Day 2: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=6udc1KWQMRkkQacSeq2nZr_2bivr5MFsH_2b3 eXB2RltzhA_3d <http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=6udc1KWQMRkkQacSeq2nZr_2bivr5MFsH_2b 3eXB2RltzhA_3d> Survey on translations of ccNSO related documents: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=e5KkU9s3UUrJ_2fmRQDJcuNgPQHx_2bHG6P2y HP34LkGFs0_3d <http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=e5KkU9s3UUrJ_2fmRQDJcuNgPQHx_2bHG6P2 yHP34LkGFs0_3d> Various Announcements ICANN CEO Blog entry on New York DNS Summit: http://blog.icann.org/2013/04/dns-summit-in-new-york/ <http://blog.icann.org/2013/04/dns-summit-in-new-york/> ICANN opens Hub Office in Istanbul, Turkey: http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-25apr13-en.pdf <http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-25apr13-en.pdf> ICANN statistics on L-Root growth and performance measurement: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-03apr13-en.htm <http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-03apr13-en.htm> Steve Crocker on Changes to the Public Forum Sessions: http://blog.icann.org/2013/04/changes-to-the-public-forum/ <http://blog.icann.org/2013/04/changes-to-the-public-forum/> Open ccNSO Related Public Comment Periods (OPEN until 2 May 2013) ATRT 2 Questions to the Community on Accountability and Transparency within ICANN: http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/atrt2-02apr13-en.htm

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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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