Hello All,

please find included below some high-level notes from today’s ccNSO Council meeting, held on 17 September at 21 UTC.

Best regards,

Joke

NOTES | ccNSO Council Meeting 166

17 September 2020 | 21:00 UTC

1. Welcome and roll call

Welcome by Katrina. We are quorate

Apologies from Byron, Bart, Souleymane.

2. Minutes & Action Items

a. Minutes Meeting 165 circulated on 8 September 2020

No comments received. Minutes are approved.

b. Action items and To-Do’s

· Action Item 162-01:

The Council requests the secretariat to publish the decision regarding the adoption of the Final Report of the cross-community Working Group on new gTLD Auction Proceeds as soon as possible on the ccNSO Website and inform the ccNSO membership accordingly. The decision becomes effective seven (7 days) after publication. Completed

· Action Item 162-02:

Secretariat to conduct Doodle poll for ICANN69 Council workshop. Completed

· To-Do:

Selecting members for the Independent Review Process (IRP) Standing Panel: The chair and the Secretariat are asked to monitor actions by ICANN Org and when needed prepare the necessary decisions by Council and ensure the call for volunteers is send out. Ongoing

· To-Do:

June 2020 Council Workshop: The chair is asked to prepare the decisions to implement the proposed actions, specifically with respect to the outreach and engagement activities. Ongoing

· To-Do:

Council to share on list suggested ideas/topics for the joint session with the ICANN

Board. Ongoing

3. Intermeeting decisions (since 20 August 2020)

None

4. ccPDP3

a. Part 1 Retirement – Update

Informational:

After reviewing the public comments, the proposed policy will not change. The WG is finalizing the documentation and agreed to request to start the formal decision-making process on the proposed policy. The main reason to combine part 1 and part 2 under one PDP was the duration. However, this is not valid anymore.

Stephen: group met a few hours ago. Public comments received were reviewed. No changes expected to the language of the document. Terminology might need to be updated, since the ISO3166 MA released a new version. Jaap and Bart started working on this. Next meeting: 1 October, and at ICANN69.

Carve out: WG needs to request the issue manager to have a carve out. To be sent to Council for approval. Council will need to send the Final Report to the Board for consideration.

Katrina: we need to speak to GAC, before we do so. GAC webinar in being planned.

Carve out. ccPDP3 consists of 2 parts, which were done consecutively. Looks like there is no need to wait for part 2 to be complete. We can carve out part 1 and end the retirement part.

b. Part 2 Review Mechanism – Update

Informational

Correction sub-title in the agenda.

Bernard prepared a table. Issue, what has happened, working through the process. Next meeting: language to discuss. The group meets every 2 weeks. The language will go out on the ccPDP3-RM mailing list prior to the WG on Wednesday.

5. IDN ccTLD related work items (ccPDP4)

a. For decision: Approval additional member (replacement)

Draft Resolution

Background

Following a call for volunteers, the ccNSO Council appointed the members to the ccPDP4 Working Group at its meeting on 20 August 2020, including Mr Sanjay Goel (.in). The current CEO of the .in ccTLD manager requested to replace Mr Sanjay Goel as ccPDP4 WG member with Anil Kumar Jain. According to the Charter members are persons directly related or supported as such to a ccTLD Manager and have to be appointed by the ccNSO Council.

Decision

The ccNSO Council appoints Anil Kumar Jain (.in) as member to the IDN ccPDP4 Working Group. The ccNSO Secretariat is requested to inform Anil Kumar Jain accordingly, and to take all other necessary steps to include him as a member of the ccPDP4 WG.

Move? Alejandra

Seconded? Stephen

No questions

Against? None

Abstain? None

All approve

b. Update: The WG had its first meeting on 8 September. Council may anticipate the appointment of the ccPDP4 WG Chair and Vice-Chair shortly.

Group has its next meeting on 22 September

6. Update Council Election process

Informational:

Update on process and webinar

Nominations started on 9 September, will close on 30 September. To date, 2 candidates were nominated (AF region , and LAC region). The AF candidate was seconded as well

Council Election Webinars took place on 2 and 3 September. Went well. First attempt to make people interested in becoming a member of the ccNSO Council. Requirements, time commitment etc were discussed. If you want to listen to the recordings, go to https://community.icann.org/display/ccnsowkspc/Pre-ICANN69+ccNSO+sessions

Alejandra received feedback from the webinar. Positive, appreciated. Attendees felt less afraid of the Council and it is good to know we are inviting people to participate.

Pablo agreed, many were inspired to participate, possibly in other positions too.

Marie-Noemie appreciated participating. What is ICANN, what is the contribution of the ccNSO to the whole, was what she was looking for. Makes people at ease. A-chin appreciated the event as well.

Next week: 2 ccTLD community webinars. Details on how to join are posted here: https://community.icann.org/display/ccnsowkspc/Pre-ICANN69+ccNSO+sessions

7. Update Selecting members for the Independent Review Process (IRP) Standing Panel

Informational

Number of people that should constitute the group was the main discussion topic to date. No decision yet. What should be the skill set of the members? For discussion during the next meeting

Action item for Katrina: forward the updated ToR to the Council

8. ICANN69 ccNSO Council workshop

What to expect?

Confirmation Date & Topics

Jordan and Katrina started preparing.

Jordan: zoom breakout rooms. Topic: how to make PDP’s go faster. 2 subsections: structure, and secondly the kinds of communications. Diagrams and 1-pagers to read in advance. Stephen and Nick will be writing down an angle to this.

9. ICANN69 preparations

a. Update on meeting schedule and proposed major topics, MPC & GRC

Alejandra provided a written update. Remember to register for ICANN69, otherwise you will not see the participation links. The schedule will be posted on 28 September.

ccNSO sessions:

pre-ICANN69 ccNSO Sessions: https://community.icann.org/x/TwG-C

Community webinars: for newcomers or those that want to learn more about the ccNSO and its work
The (very popular) ccTLD News Sessions. Agenda for ccTLD new sSession is fixed now. Find the agenda and details how to join here: Agenda ccTLD News and details how to join: https://ccnso.icann.org/en/announcement-2-08sep20-en.htm