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Council Call Preparation Material
by Gabriella Schittek May 8, 2012

May 8, 2012

Draft Council Agenda ccNSO Council Meeting 8 May 2012 Agenda: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/agenda-council-08may12-en.pdf 1. Minutes and Actions ccNSO Council Meeting 17 April 2012 1.1 Minutes 1.2 Actions Minutes & Actions 17 April Council Telephone Conference: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/node/31167 2. Updates 2.1 Chair 2.2 Vice-chairs 2.3 Councillors 2.4 Observers 2.5 ccNSO support staff 3. ccNSO Statements Process. 4. Council Input to change ICANN Meeting Schedule See email from Lesley Cowley to Council, 30 April 2012: * * "/…/A request for comments on the suggestion that the presentation of the SO/AC reports and Board meeting that take place on the Friday of each meeting week be changed, in order to allow for more emphasis on enhanced interaction throughout the week. If you have any comments on this suggestion, they would be appreciated." * 5. Cross Constituency Working Group Principles See attachment 1 6. Working Group and OtherUpdates 6.1 Finance Working Group 6.2 SOP Working Group 6.3 Framework of Interpretation Working Group 6.4 Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN Working Group (JIG) * Update appointments and voting. 6.5 Joint Security & Stability Working Group (DSSA) 6.6 Study Group on Use of Names for Countries and Territories 6.7 Meetings Programme WG. 6.8 Informal Study Group on Capacity Building 6.9 Public comment requests (new item, report from Councillors Vika and Keith, staff), material on alert list. Not included in this overview are: * GAC-ccNSO liaison WG. Until further notice the WG is dormant. * Contact Repository Implementation Working Group * IDN PDP Working Groups 7. ICANN Academy Working Group: Appointment of Volunteers Volunteers: Eberhard Lisse, .na Nigel Roberts, .gg & .je Grigori Saghyan, am Ron Sherwood, .vi Hong Xue, ccNSO Councillor (NomCom) Hongbin Zhu, .cn Background: The Chair of the ALAC requested two volunteers from ccNSO to participate in development of the ICANN Academy and its curriculum (for background see: http://costarica43.icann.org/meetings/sanjose2012/presentation-icann-academ…) To date 6 volunteers. - Criteria for appointment: * Knowledge of At Large, * Intimate knowledge of ccNSO/ ccTLD community and their needs * Ability to align activities of Academy with ccNSO needs and activities - Appointment of volunteers 8. GAC-ccNSO Council Topics 8.1 Introduction session on ccNSO 8.2 Topics for joint meeting (proposal) * Progress FOIWG to date, * Country names Study Group/UNECO survey, progress to date of study group * ccNSO view Ops Plan and Budget 9. ccNSO-GNSO Meeting Topics Porposal topics for Lunch meeting in Prague: (briefing for Juhani and Roelof) 10. Topics for Discussion Across Communities See email from Lesley Cowley to Council, 30 April 2012: "/…/ A request for suggestions on any topics of cross-community common interest for the Prague meeting agenda, so that specific sessions can be scheduled outside of the SO/AC meetings. These should be on common topics that will be of wide interest and which can have open participation from across the ICANN community. If you have any topic suggestions, please could you let me know as soon as possible." 11. Draft Agenda Prague Meeting http://www.ccnso.icann.org/node/31117 12. Liaison updates 11.1 ALAC liaison See attachment 2 11.2 GNSO liaison 13 . Next ccNSO Council Meetings Not delivered in time for posting. 14 . AOB

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TAS Update
by Gabriella Schittek May 8, 2012

May 8, 2012

Dear all, The latest TAS Update: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-07may12-en.htm ICANN will provide a full refund of the application fees paid by any new gTLD applicant that wishes to withdraw its application prior to publication of the list of applied-for new top-level domain names. Kind regards, Gabi

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Improvements to ICANN meetings
by Chris Disspain May 7, 2012

May 7, 2012

Hi All, I hope the below provides some useful context for the recent improvements to ICANN meetings that will commence in Prague. (1) In the past, the Board has typically worked with staff until midnight, and in some cases 2am, on the Thursday before the Friday Board meeting to prepare resolutions for voting. This is after a busy week listening to feedback from the community, and the end result is often Board resolutions that are poorly crafted and create problems in future. (2) For Prague, the intent is that the Board will focus on listening to the community, and then in a Board/community session on Thursday give the community some idea of what future resolutions will be voted on in or actions taken in response to that feedback. A board meeting will then be held shortly after Prague to approve any necessary resolutions. (3) An example of this approach was on the topic of Conflicts of interest in Dakar in October 2011. The Board listened to the community during the week, and then in the public session on conflicts Board members gave some feedback to the community on specific measures that would be taken with respect to new gTLDs. After careful review by the legal team, and review by Board members, the Board held a meeting on 8 Dec 2011 - where a resolution was passed on managing conflicts for new gTLDs, along with other resolutions that resulted from the discussions in Dakar. (4) The Board has also been working to ensure that most resolutions at the Board level are relatively routine. This means that bodies like the ccNSO have already reached consensus on a topic or staff have managed a public comment process on a topic - and there are no controversies associated with the matter. For such routine resolutions - we either have a short teleconference or we take advantage of face-to-face time at a Board workshop to pass these resolutions. For example, at the Board workshop just concluded in Amsterdam we had a short Board meeting to pass mostly consent resolutions. It is likely that in Prague we will pass resolutions on routine matters in the Board workshop on the weekend of 23/24 June - if there are matters submitted by staff for approval - and can report on them during the public meetings. If there are controversies on a matter, the general approach would be to seek to return the matter to the relevant body or bodies to reach a stronger consensus. Thus you will see fewer matters that are not on the consent agenda at Board meetings. (5) Where there is a major policy vote, or where there are differing views on a major policy, the Board will continue to schedule such discussions for the public Board meetings. Past examples of such matters include the launch of the IDN Fast Track, .xxx decision and the approval of the new gTLD program in Singapore in June 2011. (6) With respect to transparency, the Board has been publishing rationales for each of its decisions - including those on the consent agenda. There are also detailed minutes of meetings, where contributions from Board members made during a Board meeting are captured. For example, from the minutes of the meeting on 8 Dec 2011 (http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/minutes-08dec11-en.htm) there is a detailed record of the discussion on conflicts as well as on batching. (7) We are still refining improvements and certainly welcome feedback from the community. (8) It's likely that the Board/community session will be held just before the Public Forum on Thursday. Therefore it is unlikely to interfere with ccNSO WG sessions that often take place whilst the public forum is going on. Please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions or concerns, and certainly feel free to provide feedback to the Board in the Board/ccNSO meeting in Prague. Cheers, Chris

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Dial in details Council Call 8 May 12:00 UTC
by Kristina Nordstrom May 7, 2012

May 7, 2012

Dear all, The next Council call will take place on 8 May at 12:00 UTC. Please find the dial in details below: Dial in numbers: http://www.adigo.com/icann/ Conference ID: 5258 If you need dial out assistance for this call, please let me know as soon as possible. Kind regards, Kristina

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FW: Written Working Group Update for May Council Call
by Gabriella Schittek May 5, 2012

May 5, 2012

Dear Councillors, Ondrej Filip has provided a written Working Group Update for the Programme WG: == "Since the last report the Working Group had another conference call. We continued our discussion about meeting attractiveness improvement. We decided to prepare a facebook page for the meeting participants. To help less experienced speakers the WG published Presentation Guidelines. We decided that the main topic of the panel discussion will be Internet Governance and we are currently working on a briefing paper. The meeting agenda is currently published and we do not expect any major changes. The WG also appointed a liaison (Ondrej Filip) to the Informal Study Group on Capacity Building." == Kind regards, Gabi

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Revised Programme Plan IDN Variant TLD Programme
by Gabriella Schittek May 5, 2012

May 5, 2012

Dear all, ICANN created a programme plan for the next steps on the delegation of variant TLDs, which was presented at the Costa Rica meeting. Based on the comments received, the project plan has been updated and now input is sought on the revised plan: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-04may12-en.htm Public comments are welcome until 25 May 2012. Kind regards, Gabi

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Latest TAS Update
by Gabriella Schittek May 5, 2012

May 5, 2012

Dear all, The latest TAS Update: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-04may12-en.htm According to the update, the TAS held 2091 applications - either submitted or in progress - when it was taken offline on 12 April 2012. ICANN is now notifying applicants whether they were affected by the software glitch. This is scheduled to be completed before Tuesday, 8 May. Shortly after, the schedule for reopening TAS will be announced. Kind regards, Gabi

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TAS Update
by Gabriella Schittek May 3, 2012

May 3, 2012

Dear all, The latest TAS Update: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-02may12-en.htm Kind regards, Gabi

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Webinar on SSR Draft Report & Recommendations
by Gabriella Schittek May 3, 2012

May 3, 2012

Dear all, In March, the Security, Stability & Resiliency of the DNS Review Team (SSR RT) published its Draft Report and Recommendations for public comments http://www.icann.org/en/about/aoc-review/ssr/draft-report-15mar12-en.pdf The SSR Review Team now invites the Community to participate in a public webinar, where it will present the report and recommendations and solicit the Community's feedback on its findings and conclusions. The public webinar will take place on Friday, 11 May 2012. Two sessions will be scheduled, at 11:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC. If you wish to participate, please email alice.jansen(a)icann.org by Thursday, 10 May. For more information see http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-02may12-en.htm Kind regards, Gabi

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Call for ccTLD News Presentations
by Gabriella Schittek May 2, 2012

May 2, 2012

Dear all, We are now looking for presentations for our ccTLD News session in Prague. If you are interested in giving a presentation at this session, please could you send me: 1. The exact title of what you would like to present on; 2. The name of the presenter; 3. A short summary (2-3 sentences) what the presentation is going to cover; 4. How much time you think you will need As we only have a limited number of slots for presentations at this session, we can't, unfortunately, guarantee you a slot. If we receive too many proposals, the ccNSO Programme Working Group will have to make a selection. If you are interested in presenting at the ccTLD News session, please, send me required information by Tuesday, 8 May at the latest. Kind regards, Gabi

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