Dear all

Please find included the agenda and draft resolutions for tomorrow’s call,

Kind regards,

Bart

 

Agenda and draft resolutions ccNSO Council Meeting

20 July 2017, 18.00 UTC

 

1) Welcome and Apologies

Attendance list is available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/attendance.htm

 

2) Minutes and Actions

Minutes 29 June 2017.

Action items

 

3) Overview inter-meeting Council decisions

None

 

4) Appointments

4.1 Appointment Vadim A. Mikhaylov (.su) PDP WG Retirement of ccTLDs

 

Draft Resolution

The ccNSO appoints Vadim A. Mikhaylov (.su) as member of the PDP WG Retirement.

 

4.2 Progress ccNSO appointment NomCom FY 2018

Update: to date the following persons (self-)nominated:

Dejan Ðukic (.rs)

Wafa Dahmani (.tn)

Eberhard Lisse (.na)

 

 

5) ccNSO as Decisional Participant Update

5.1 Approval Action Process update

 

5.2 Rejection Action Process update

 

6) Update CSC charter review

Draft Resolution

Background

The ccNSO and RySG will have to review the charter of the Customer Standing Committee, starting October 2017. To structure the review process, the ccNSO Council and RySG agreed to define the terms of reference for the review. Both ccNSO and RySG will appointed 2 members to an ad-hoc group that now has proposed the terms of reference for the first review of the CSC charter.

 

Decision

The ccNSO Council adopts the Term of Reference as developed by the joint group of ccNSO and RySG: Terms of Reference Customer Standing Committee Charter Review version 1.0. The ccNSO Council request Abdalla Omari and Martin Boyle to remain member of the review team. The chair is requested to inform the RySG.

 

 

7) Final Paper of the Cross-community WG Use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs

7.1 Discussion and or adoption final paper

(https://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/ccwg-ctn-final-paper-15jun17-en.pdf )

 

Introduction

At the ccNSO members meeting in Johannesburg the recommendations of the CCWG Use of Country and Territory names to continue work on use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs were discussed and supported. However, the format to continue work is still under community discussion. Awaiting the outcome of that discussion the ccNSO Councils deferred the discussion and adoption of the final paper to the next meeting (July 2017). By adopting the recommendations in the final paper the ccNSO Council effectively closes the Cross-community Working group and supports the need for additional work in this area. 

 

However, following ICANN 59 the next steps on how future work on the use of names countries and territories as TLDs will be structured and how the ccTLD community could participate most effectively is not clear (yet).

 

Moving forward with respect to the Final paper and the discussion there are 4 options:

  1. Reject recommendations (working group effectively continues) and request WG to provide clear direction and assist in resolving issues.  
  2. Defer the decision, up and until there is more clarity on how to proceed with follow-up work. The cross-community working group is not closed. 
  3.  Adopt final report and request the ccNSO appointed members to provide advice on next steps.
  4. Adopt the report, and await further action from other communities. 

 

Draft Resolution

Background

At the ccNSO members meeting the recommendations of the CCWG Use of Country and Territory names to continue work on use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs were discussed and supported. However, the format to continue work is still under community discussion. Awaiting the outcome of that discussion the ccNSO Council defers the adoption of the final paper to the next meeting (July 2017).

 

Decision

The ccNSO Council adopts the Final Paper of and supports recommendation 1, 2 and 4:

 

 

  1. Close this CWG in accordance with and as foreseen in the charter.
  2. Recommend that the ICANN community consolidate all policy efforts relating to geographic names (as that term has traditionally very broadly been defined in the ICANN environment to this point) to enable in-depth analyses and discussions on all aspects related to all geographic-related names. This is the only way, in our view, to determine whether a harmonized framework is truly achievable.
  1. Recommend that future policy development work must facilitate an all-inclusive dialogue to ensure that all members of the community have the opportunity to participate. Again, we believe that this is the only way to determine whether a harmonized framework is truly achievable.

 

The Council also request the ccNSO appointed members to the CWG to keep the Council abreast of the developments and advise the Council on next steps. The ccNSO Council thanks and congratulates the CWG and in particular its ccNSO appointed members and co-chair Annebeth Lange.

 

 

7.2 Discussion recommendation Study Group CTN Letter to the Board to request continued exclusion of country and territory names in subsequent new gTLDs rounds.

For discussion and / or decision.

Introduction

In September 2014 the Study Group recommended Council: In light of the need for further work on the treatment of country and territory names, the complexity of the issue at hand and the aforementioned inconsistencies between various ICANN policies, it is also recommended that the ccNSO Council request that the ICANN Board extend the current rule in the new gTLD Applicant Guidebook regarding the exclusion of all country and territory names in all languages, for consecutive rounds of new gTLD applications.

 

Council adopted this recommendation in 2014. Given the establishment of the CCWG UCTN, Council did not pursue this recommendation, awaiting the outcome of the deliberations and recommendations of the CCWG.

 

Draft Resolution

At the ccNSO members meeting in Johannesburg the recommendations of the CCWG Use of Country and Territory names to continue work on use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs were discussed and supported. This also included the recommendation of the Study Group. However, as the format to continue work is still under community discussion, and interest of the ccTLD community in future efforts needs to be ensured the ccNSO Councils defers the decision whether to send the letter.

 

 

8) EPSRP update

Update & next steps

 

9) PDP progress

 

10) ICANN 60: meeting agenda (Abu Dhabi)

10.1 Review ICANN 59

10.2 ICANN 60 Meeting schedule days and Tech day

10.3 Council meetings

           

11) CSC and RZERC update

10.1 CSC update (Byron)

10.2 RZERC update (placeholder)

 

12) Council Updates

12.1    Chair Update

12.2    Vice-Chair Update

12.3    Councilors Update

12.4    Regional Organizations Update

12.5    Secretariat update

Schedule Board and Council election to be prepared for the 24 August meeting

 

13) WG update

13.1 Programme WG (Alejandra)

13.2 GRC update (Katrina)

13.3 CCWG Auction Proceeds (Ching)

 

14) Liaison Updates

14.1    GNSO Update (written update).

14.2    ALAC Update (written update).

 

15) Next meetings

 

16)  AOB

 

17) Closure