Dear Councillors,

Thank you all for your refinements and feedback regarding the draft resolution related to the ccNSO membership of Molddata. 

I would like to rescind the draft resolution circulated to Council on 23 September at 16 UTC.  My email was sent too quickly, especially in light of some additional information I received in the meanwhile from IANA staff.  Apologies for the inconvenience.

Below I copy-pasted the additional information:

This request was determined to be an administrative transfer instead of a full transfer because IP Serviciul Tehnologia Informatiei si Securitate Cibernetica (IP STISC) acquired MoldData through a merger/absorption to consolidate the main governmental IT services into a single institution. During the process, the rights and obligations of MoldData passed onto IP STISC and all of the technical staff and user support staff were transferred to IP STISC as well. 

IANA staff has documentation (certified translation) regarding the reorganization through absorption of the state enterprise Molddata, which states that IP STISC is the successor of rights and obligations of Molddata.

When looking at the .md record in the IANA database (https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/md.html) , you will notice that the record was last updated at the start of September 2021, but there is no transfer report, since this is merely an administrative transfer. In line with the path chosen by IANA, and the additional information we received, no further Council action is required.  The Secretariat will however need to remediate the discrepancy between the data of the ccTLD manager in the IANA delegation record and the ccTLD manager data as included in the ccNSO member database, and consequently adjust the ccNSO mailing list subscriptions, the ccNSO website and ccNSO membership records, to reflect this administrative update. 

BACKGROUND

According to the ICANN Bylaws, ccNSO membership is limited to ccTLD Managers (originally Sponsoring Organisation), which are the entities listed as ccTLD Manager in the IANA TLD Delegation record.

Section 10.4. MEMBERSHIP

(a) The ccNSO shall have a membership consisting of ccTLD managers. Any ccTLD manager that meets the membership qualifications stated in Section 10.4(b) shall be entitled to be members of the ccNSO. For purposes of this Article 10, a ccTLD manager is the organization or entity responsible for managing an ISO 3166 country-code top-level domain, or under any later variant, for that country-code top-level domain.

Thank you, and my apologies.

Best regards,

Joke Braeken

ccNSO Policy Advisor

joke.braeken@icann.org