Dear Councillors,

Happy New Year!

The next Council call takes place tomorrow at 12.00 UTC. Please, find the dial-in details in attachment 1. The conference ID is 5258. The dial-in number for US/Canada is 800 550 6865

The agenda is available at http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/agenda-council-17dec09-en.pdf

1. Recap of Actions & Voting

Actions: See attachment 2

Voting: See attachment 3

2. ICANN Reviews under Affirmation of Commitments

See announcement http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-26dec09-en.htm

3. ccNSO Council Workshop Nairobi

4. ccNSO Meeting Agenda Nairobi

See http://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/nairobi/agenda.htm

5. Working Group Updates:
5.1 Incident Response Working Group – appointment of new Chair

Background
At its meeting in Seoul the ccNSO Council appointed Norm Ritchie, .CA registry, as chair of the Incident response planning Working group. As Norm is no longer working with the registry, he stepped down as chair of the WG  the working group nominates Jörg Schweiger, member of the executive board of Denic the .DE registry, as its new chair, to be appointed by the council. Jörg currently acts as its interim-chair.

Suggested Resolution:
The ccNSO Council appoints Jörg Schweiger as chair of the Incident Response planning working group, and thanks Norm Ritchie for his work and leadership of the working group.

5.2 Wildcard Study Group
5.3 SOP WG
5.4 Delegation & Redelegation WG

6. Liaison Updates
6.1. At-Large Liaison

Written update will follow

6.2 GNSO Liaison

Written update will follow

7. AOB


Kind regards,

Gabi