Hi Olivier, First of all: thanks for the hospitality! :-) I believe the reporting session was already cancelled in New Delhi. I understood the intention was to get a better exchange of views instead of a representative of each group reading a statement. I agree that this is not the best solution. I found the reports helpful in the way you describe. As to your second question: I was at that meeting On a yearly basis CENTR has a short meeting with the board to give an overview of what lives in the CENTR community and to raise a few key issues. The current CENTR Board started this initiative to improve the relations with ICANN that were somewhat troubled in the past. This is not and was never meant to be an exchange between the ICANN Board and the ccTLD community as a whole. I believe the session we had during the ccNSO meeting on Tuesday morning fits that role quite well. Topics discussed: - concerns in the CENTR community that we are heading for an overlap between the ROs work and ICANNs work. The example that was discussed in detail is the ADRP training that was started by APTLD and now taken over by ICANN. (in the meantime this issue is resolved) - the request for a swift implementation of eIANA (after the testing phase is properly completed and the IANA WG's concerns met). - the pressure some of our members get from their governments to start implementing .IDN and the growing concerns that ccTLDs applying for an .IDN would be required to enter into a gTLD-style contract. A last point on .IDN was the need to have an open and transparent application process. - a planned discussion on budget was dropped as our questions had been answered in a different session. Hope this helps, Peter -----Original Message----- From: owner-ccnso-council@icann.org [mailto:owner-ccnso-council@icann.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Guillard / AFNIC Sent: woensdag 2 juli 2008 18:09 To: ccnso-council@icann.org Subject: [ccnso-council] ICANN Paris: heads and tails ! Dear All, first of all, and as you already all have understood, that was an honnor as well as a pleasure for the french community to receive you all in our home country. So was it for me : after all those years envolved in ICANN, this meeting had quite a special taste to me. I had a lot of feedback from ccs that have found this meeting profitable : lot of work acheived in various areas of interest for our community, good information sharing between ccs and with other SO's and committees, and testimonies of excellent time spent down town in Paris and around ! Hope you had a safe trip for those that went back home. All my wishes to those that choosed to take some extra time in France ( and I know that some of you have :) This was for the heads of the coin I unfortunately also have some concerns that I beleive necessary to express here, and for which I would appreciate some feedback from my fellows Councillors : 1/ Public reports: usually, Supporting Organisations & Advisory Committees report publically to the board about their activities, this help to have some keys to read the board meeting. This is an important moment to get a global picture of what's happening, from other perspectives than the one you have to focus on for practical reasons. This moment is a main moment in ICANN process life: just essential to mutual understanding and to transparency. For the first time, public reports of SOs and ACs didn't happened : I would have wished this first time not to occur in Paris. Question : What happened ? 2/ Coordination and communication between ICANN and cc community : I have been aware that CENTR excom had a meeting with the board of ICANN on Wednesday, June 25th. I learnt that over that meeting various topics or concerns were raised by CENTR to ICANN board. Some of those topics were also adressed and discussed over the ccNSO meeting or even the ccNSO Council meeting, such as for example IDN or iana software. The strange thing is that I have *NOT* heard any of the CENTR representatives raising their concerns to the cc community. Question : Who has participated to the CENTR excom/ICANN board meeting ? Has ICANN provided any information to CENTR that would be of interest to the work or actions undertaken by the ccNSO ( Working Group, Work Plan and so on )? Any indications or views on that ? Best, -- Olivier