ccNSO Council Telephone Conference

28 August 2012

1) Apologies

2) Minutes and Actions

http://www.ccnso.icann.org/node/33419

3) Updates

3.1 Chair Update

3.2 Vice-chair Update

3.3 Councilors Update

3.4 Secretariat Update

4) Timeline ccNSO Council Elections

Suggested Timeline: 

10 September: Call for Nominations 
1 October: End of Nomination period
8 October: Last day of candidates to accept nominations, publication of nominees (if no election) by election manager

If elections needed: 

15 October: Last day publication of list of electorate, start of campaign period (Toronto meeting: 14 – 19 October)
29 October: End of campaign period; ballots issued to voting electorate, start of voting
12 November: Voting closes
19 November: Last day for voting results to be published

If ties:

26 November: Start of Run off elections
3 December: Close of Run off elections
5 December: Last day Announcement of results

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End of term March 2013 for:

Lesley Cowley (EU Region)

Keith Davidson (AP region) 

Fernando Espana (NA Region)

Paulos Nyirenda (AF Region) Rolando Toledo (LAC Region)

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5) Approval of New Capacity Study Group Members

Victor Abboud

Paulos Nyirenda

Souleymane Oumtanaga

6) Future of ccNSO Dinners

See attachment 1

7) SSR Statement Progress

Document to be provided

8) Proposed Change ccNSO Statement Guideline

See attachment 2 and 3

9) Council Input Request - Bertrand de la Chapelle on Impact New gTLD on GNSO structure

See attachment 4 

10) Working Group Updates

10.1 Finance Working Group (Byron Holland)
10.2 SOP Working Group (Roelof Meijer)
10.3 Framework of Interpretation Working Group (Keith Davidson)
10.4 Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN Working Group (JIG) (Jian Zhang)

10.5 Joint Security & Stability Working Group (DSSA) (Bart Boswinkel)
10.6 Meetings Programme WG (Vika Mpisane)

10.7 IDN WG 1 (Bart Boswinkel) - See attachment 5

10.8 IDN WG 2 (Hiro Hotta)

10.9 Study Group on Use of Names for Countries and Territories (Young Eum Lee)

Other Updates:

10.10 ICANN Outreach Programme (Sokol Haxhiu)

10.11 Public comments (Keith Davidson, Vika Mpisane) 

11) Liaison Updates

11.1 At-Large Liaison 

See report sent to Council list 1 August; next ALAC conference takes place straight after ccNSO Council call.  

11.2 GNSO Liaison 

No report provided in time for posting.

12) Date of Next Meetings

25 September 2012 12.00 UTC

17 October 2012  UTC

20 November 2012 12.00 UTC

13) AOB