Draft Agenda ccNSO Council Telephone Conference

23 January 2014

1) Apologies

2) Minutes and Actions

3) Internet Governance Fora

Update

3.1 1 Net initiative (Mathieu Weill)

3.2 Brazil Meeting (Carolina Aguerre)

3.3 Fifth Panel (Byron Holland)

3.4 ccWG Internet Governance (Keith Davidson),

3.5 Strategy Panel on ICANN's Role in the Internet Organizations' Ecosystem (Debbie Monahan)

4) Appointment Co-Chair GNSO Working Group drafting charter for WG on Cross-Community Working Group Principles

Background

The ccNSO was invited (see letter from GNSO to ccNSO chair, 13 December 2013), to participate in a cross community effortto create a framework for ccWG’s and provide a co-chair of the WG. 

Draft Resolution

The ccNSO Council resolves:

1.     To participate in the new GNSO initiated cross-community drafting team as suggested,

2.     To appoint Becky Burr as co-chair of this WG

3.     To call for volunteers once the WG has been formally established

The secretariat is requested to provide the appropriate assistance to this WG

5) ccNSO Travel Funding 

Background

During the previous call some issues pertaining to the travel funding were raised, in particular whether the ccNSO liaisons (to ALAC and GNSO), should always be eligible for travel funding to ICANN meetings.  To date the ccNSO is eligible for 12 slots per meeting, ALAC 27 slots and the GNSO at least 18 slots. In general, the ccNSO travel funding committee allocates a limited number of slots(on average 4 out of 12: 5 slots for members appointed Councilors, 3 NomCom appointed councillors), in accordance with the travel funding guideline as recently, 12 February 2013, amended (http://ccnso.icann.org/about/travel-funding-12feb13-en.pdf). 

To date attendance of the f-2-f meetings of ALAC and the GNSO in person is not considered to be requirement (see http://ccnso.icann.org/about/guidelines-liaisons-observers-13may08-en.pdf)  

Proposed next steps

Revisit requirements of ccNSO appointed liaisons at the Council workshop as part of a general review of Guidelines adopted in 2008, and continue discussion on travel funding, after this has been clarified.

6) Implementations Recommendations Study Group Quorum Rule

Background

See preparatory material.

Draft resolution

Staff is requested to provide a schedule for implementation of the recommendations on the quorum rule changes as adopted earlier by the Council in the Bylaws (Article IX) and Rules and Guidelines of the ccNSO . This schedule should also take into account changes to the Rules and Guidelines resulting from required changes to the ICANN Bylaws, Article IX and Annex B (ccNSO Policy development Process) to implement the  IDN ccPDP Recommendation (on inclusion of IDN ccTLD in the ccNSO).

7) Election Review Committee Final Report

Background

See Report included in Preparatory Materials  

Draft Resolution

The ccNSO Council adopts the recommendations of its Election Review Committee:

1.     The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to look into possibilities od developing a new voting system, which allows ach member to handle and update their own data and which is linked to a voting tool making it the voting much easier to handle.

2.     The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to update the ccNSO Election Guidelines with the additional wording: “ Only ccNSO Primary or Secondary Contacts, as listed in the ccNSO Database, are eligle to nominate or second a candidate” in the appropriate section.

3.     The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to update the ccNSO Election Guidelines with the additional wording: Self-Nominations or Secondments are not allowed” in the appropriate section.

4.     The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to continue its activities on awareness raising campaigns, when necessary. 

The Council wholeheartedly thanks all members of the committee and in particular it chair Katrina Sataki, for its hard work in this area and closes the Election review Committee.

8) Council Updates

8.1    Chair Update

8.2    Vice-Chair Update

8.3    Councilors Update

8.4    Regional Organisations Update

8.5    Staff Update

9) Working Group and Other Updates

9.1    SOP Working Group (Roelof Meijer)

9.2    CRI Working Group (Survey results)

9.3    FoI Working Group (Keith Davidson)

9.4    ICANN Academy (Hong Xue)

10) Liaison Updates

 FYI

10.1    GNSO Liaison (Patrick Myles)

10.2    ALAC Liaison (Ron Sherwood)

11) Update Work Plan

FYI

See preparatory material.

12) Date of Next Meetings

FYI

20 February 2014 12.00 UTC

19 March 2014 16.00 Local Singapore time

17 April 2014 12.00 UTC

13) Singapore Meetings

FYI

12.1 Council Workshop Sunday 22 March 2014 (tentatively 10.00-14.00, agenda TBD)

12.2 Council preparatory meeting, Monday 23 March, 11.00- 12.00 local time.

12.3 ALAC-ccNSO Council Meeting, Monday 23 March 12.30-14.00

12.4 ccNSO-GNSO Council Meeting (tentatively) Monday 23 March 16.30-18.00

14) AOB