Dear all,
Please find included the updated agenda and:
This material will also be posted on the Council wiki for this meeting:
https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ccNSOCWS/pages/103123987/12+June+2025+ICANN83+218
Kind regards,
Bart
Updated agenda
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AGENDA
ccNSO Council meeting 218
Thursday, 12 June 2025
Table of contents
Background and supporting documents
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4. Intermeeting Council Decisions (since meeting 217, May 2025)
5
5. Intermeeting Decisions Triage Committee since Council meeting 217
5
6. Update ECA, IFRT & CSC (written updates)
5
7. Update Working Groups (written updates)
5
8. Update Liaisons (written updates)
6
9. Update ccNSO Website redesign
6
10. Progress Board Consideration ccPDP4-IDN
6
12. Update Chair, Vice-chairs, Councillors, Regional Organisations and Secretariat
6
ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS & DECISIONS
7
14. Timeline Board Seat 11 Nomination Process and appointment Nomination Process
Manager
7
16. Call for volunteers ccNSO Policy Implementation Assistance Group review
Mechanism (ccPAIG RM)
7
17. Appointment members or chairs/vice chairs to committees and working groups,
if any
7
SUBSTANTIVE MATTERS & DECISIONS
9
20. Any Other Business (AOB)
9
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Council workspace for this meeting:
https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ccNSOCWS/pages/103123987/12+June+2025+ICANN83+218
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ccNSO correspondence: statements and responses:
https://ccnso.icann.org/en/about/statements.htm
a.
SOI updates
Consult the
ccNSO SOI Guideline
Complete the SOI
template
Check the ccNSO
Statements of Interest
b.
Meeting quorum
a.
Letter from ICANN legal on Bylaw changes to implement recommendations 2nd CSC Effectiveness review - Item 6
a.
Minutes Meeting 217
Circulated to the Council mailing list on 21 May 2025
b.
Action Items Meeting 216
● Action item 217-01
The Council Chair is requested to draft a proposed meeting request on behalf of Council and the SOPC leadership team, inviting Xavier Calvez, ICANN SVP Planning & Chief Financial Officer and Kurt Erik
“Kurtis” Lindqvist, ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer, to discuss concerns regarding the recently adopted ICANN Budget.
(Completed)
● Action item 217-02
The Council Chair is requested to reach out to Greg DiBiase (GNSO Chair) to have a discussion post ICANN83 regarding the deferral of the 3rd CSC Review.
(Completed)
● Action item 217-03
The Council Chair is requested to reach out to Beth Bacon (RySG Chair) to jointly organize the selection of CSC members, discuss the legal questions and the amendment of the CSC Charter.
(Completed)
● Action item 217-04
The Council Chair is requested to reach out to the CSC to inform them about the ccNSO outreach to the GNSO and RySG Chairs.
(Completed)
● Action item 217-05
The ccNSO Council Chair is requested to discuss the 360 review results with the reviewed Councillors individually.
(Completed)
● Action item 217-06
The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to add the approach regarding the next round of 360 reviews to the agenda of pre-ICANN83 Council prep meeting.
(Completed)
● Action Item 217-07
The ccNSO Secretariat and the former PGA WG chair are requested to draft the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the study groups on IANA Public Records and Disaster Recovery. The ToR should be ready for adoption
by Council at ICANN83. (Completed)
● Action Item 217-08
The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to close the Policy Gap Analysis working group on 30 May
2025. (To be completed)
● Action Item 217-09
The secretariat is requested to publish the resolution regarding the adoption of the PGA WG Final Report as soon as possible. The resolution becomes effective 7 days after publication.(Completed)
● Action Item 217-10
The secretariat is requested to enable Nigel Roberts to join the ccNSO Council mailing list, effective immediately (Completed)
● Action Item 217-11
The secretariat is requested to publish the resolution regarding the adoption of the Council Election Report for the European Region as soon as possible. The resolution becomes effective upon publication.
(Completed)
● Action Item 217-12
The secretariat is requested to launch a call for volunteers to join the MPC Review Team as soon as possible, to seek members for the review team before the start of ICANN83.
(To be done)
● Action Item 217-13
The secretariat is requested to publish the resolution regarding the adoption of the MPC Review ToR as soon as possible. The resolution becomes effective upon publication.
(Completed)
● Action item 217-14
Regarding the appointment of the members to the various working groups and committees, the secretariat is requested to inform the respective working groups and enable the appointees to fulfil their role.
The secretariat is requested to publish this resolution as soon as possible on the ccNSO website.
(Completed)
● Action item 217-15
The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to launch a call for volunteers for one (1) ccNSO Appointee to the new ICANN UA Expert Group. The secretariat is requested to publish this resolution as soon as possible
on the ccNSO website. The resolution becomes effective upon publication. (Completed)
● Action item 217-16
The ccNSO Council Chair is requested to welcome LK Domain Registry as a member of the ccNSO.
(Completed)
● Action item 217-17
The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to update the ccNSO website to include LK Domain Registry as a member of the ccNSO. The secretariat is requested to publish the resolution regarding the new ccNSO member
as soon as possible on the ccNSO website. The resolution becomes effective upon publication.
(Completed)
● Action Item 217-18
The ccNSO Council Chair is requested to submit the ccNSO Council response to the How We Meet request for comments latest on 19 May.(Completed)
● Action Item 217-19
The secretariat is requested to publish the resolution regarding the ccNSO Council response to the How We Meet request for comments as soon as possible on the ccNSO website. The resolution becomes effective
upon publication.(Completed)
● Action Item 217-20
The secretariat is requested to draft a proposed Council response to the request for public comments on the CSC IANA SLA change process, for adoption by Council at ICANN83.
(Completed)
● Action Item 217-21
The ccNSO Council is requested to review the proposed Council Election Guideline. The ccNSO membership should be given the opportunity to review and comment as well. Unless there are any major concerns
raised, the revised guideline will be adopted by Council at ICANN83 (Completed)
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Support ccNSO Council submission SLA Change process
There were no intermeeting decisions by the ccNSO Triage Committee.
a.
ccPDP3-Review Mechanism - Dormant
b.
ccPDP4-IDN - Dormant
c.
DASC
d.
FIN2 WG
e.
GRC
f.
IGLC
g.
MPC
h.
OMC
i.
PGA WG
j.
SOPC
k.
Tech WG
l.
TLD-OPS SC
m.
Triage Committee
n.
UAC
o.
CIP-CCG
p.
Planning Prioritization Process group
q.
RZERC
r.
RSS GWG
s.
ICANN How We Meet Group
Written updates - if any - are published on the wiki space for this meeting.
a.
Update ccNSO Liaison to ALAC
b.
Update ccNSO Liaison to GNSO Council
c.
Update ccNSO Liaison
to UASG
According to current planning, the website will go live in Decemeber 2025, depending on progress of developing new content for the new website.
Introduction of draft ccNSO portfolio FY 26-27
Overview of work items, resourcing & and need for prioritization
a.
Meeting with ICANN Finance
b.
Information session with the ICANN Board
c.
SO/AC Roundtable
d.
Informational meeting GNSO chair and chair RySG
a.
Update and adoption of ccNSO Council Selection Guideline
b.
Adoption Timeline 2026 Council Election & Appointment ccNSO Council Selection Process Manager
Background - proposed timelines.
2025 Timeline: Nomination Seat 11 & Council Elections
Next round of reviews - According to the agreed upon schedule the 360 reviews of the following Councillors are scheduled for July 2025:
Molehe Mwesi, Ai-Chin Lu , Stephen Deerhake, Chris Disspian, Alejandra Reynoso. This is a second round for these Councillors, the first one was in the February-March 2024 timeframe.
17.
Adoption Terms of Reference
IANA Public Records
Study Group
Under the assumption the Board adopts the ccNSO Policy review mechanism, the implementation of the policy will need to be detailed.
The ccNSO has developed an outline for such a group. Accordingly, former members of the WG are explicitly invited to participate as well as others.
One of the ccNSO Councillors is expected to be liaison between the group and the Council
The role and tasks of the group are described in the outline:
https://ccnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/field-attached/outline-ccnso-policy-implementation-assistance-process-21sep23-en.pdf
To be appointed:
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Chair Tech Working Group: Eberhard Lisse
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Member ICANN’s UA Expert Working Group
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TBD’ed
a.
Selection of ccNSO appointed member and alternate
The ccNSO is expected to appoint one (1) member to the CSC, term starting 1 October 2025. Frederico Neves will step down and is no longer eligible (as he has served
three(3) consecutive terms.
Erwin Lansing has recently been appointed as alternate.
The council needs to set a timeline for the selection process, and appoint the selection process manager (Claudia Ruiz). Applicable Guideline: ccNSO Appointment
Procedure, sections 5.1 and 8 (https://ccnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/field-attached/guidelines-ccnso-appointees-version-1-procedures-22mar21-en.pdf)
Timeline:
Timeline Customer Standing Committee member selection process 2025
b.
Coordination selection RySG & approval full slate of CSC membership
As part of the selection process, the ccNSO Council is expected to coordinate its selection of members with the selection of the members appointed
by the RySG. The Council may task and mandate the CSC Selection committee to coordinate the selection with RySG and GNSO Council.
c.
Deferral 3rd
CSC Effectiveness Review
In July 2024, the ccNSO and GNSO Councils deferred the 3rd
CSC Effectiveness review pending implementation of the recommendations of the 2nd Review. Recently further
steps regarding implementation of these recommendations were made, including a series of questions for the ccNSO Council. Suggestion is to defer the 3rd
Effectiveness review for one year pending implementation of the recommendations.
a.
Joint session with RySG
b.
Noteworthy from other sessions
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17 July 2025 | 18:00 UTC, Meeting 219
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21 August 2025 | 12:00 UTC (Meeting 220)
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18 September 2025 | 21:00 UTC (Meeting 221)
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30 October 2025 | time TBC, Meeting 222 (ICANN84)
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20 November 2025 | 12:00 UTC, Meeting 223
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18 December 2025 | 18:00 UTC, Meeting 224