Dear all, Please find included the draft agenda and first batch of back ground material for the upcoming Council call (14 April 2016) Kind regards, Bart ---------- Draft Agenda ccNSO Council Meeting 14 April 2016 1) Welcome and Apologies Attendance list is available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/attendance.htm 2) Minutes and Actions Minutes 9 March 2016 meeting were circulated. All actions completed 3) Overview inter-meeting Council decisions · Appointment of Travel Funding Committee, Triage Committee, Membership Application oversight (adopted 23 March 2016) · Adoption of the following Guidelines and charters (adopted 28 March 2016, effective 4 April 2016): Guidelines · Guideline: ccNSO Work Plan · Guideline: ccNSO Working Groups · Guideline: ccNSO Roles and Responsibilities · Guideline: ccNSO Statements · Guideline: ccNSO Meetings · Guideline: ccNSO Collaboration Groups with a Limited Scope Charters · Charter: ccNSO Meeting Programme WG · Charter: ccNSO Council Triage Committee · Adoption change of travel Funding Guideline (adopted 7 April 2016, effective 14 April 2016) o Redline version included in prep material · Appointment additional volunteers Guideline Review Committee (adopted 8 April 2016) o Christelle Vaval o Martin Boyle o Maarten Simon 4) Roles, responsibilities and accountability Council · Informational on overview · Discussion new role: updates at meetings Regional Organizations. Councilors from region to give a presentation, nominate point of contact · Survey on expected roles Councilors 5) Appointment chair ccNSO Programme WG Katrina Sataki stepped down as chair of the programme WG. Programme WG nominates new chair, to be appointed by Concil 6) Policy development processes review mechanism and retirement of ccTLDs Discussion on Marrakesh meeting and next steps 7) Discussion ICANN Transparency and closed meetings Topic was deferred at 9 March 2016 meeting. Topic raised by Nigel Roberts 8) IANA Stewardship transition and CCWG -Accountability 8.1 Progress implementation For information: included latest version implementation schedule as circulated with chairs SO/ACs. 8.2 Change of scope/mandate ccNSO IANA Transition and Accountability Coordination Committee (ISTACC). For discussion The ISTACC was established to inform the ccNSO appointed members on the ICG, CWG-Stewardship and CCWG-Accountability and ccNSO Council chair and vice-chairs. Now both the CWG-Stewardship and CCWG -Accountability are focused on implementation of their proposals, the scope of the ISTACC needs to adjusted accordingly. This would imply closure of ISTACC and adjusted membership (for example include GRC) 9) Annual Work Plan For Discussion and Adoption Draft work plan and Annex A (mind-map) and Annex B (GANTT chart) 10) Council Updates 10.1 Chair Update 10.2 Vice-Chair Update 10.3 Councilors Update 10.4 Regional Organizations Update 10.5 Staff Update 11) WG updates 11.1 GRC (Guideline review committee) update 11.2 CCWG Updates · Use of country and territory names ( Annebeth Lange, Paul Szyndler, written update) · CWG on CCWG Principles (Becky Burr) · CCWG Internet Governance (Young Eum Lee) 11.3 Program WG update 11.4 EPSRP WG Other updates, if any 11.5 Closure of in-active WGs/Committees 12) Liaison Updates Written updates 12.1 GNSO Liaison (Patrick Myles). 12.2 ALAC Liaison (Ron Sherwood). 13) Next meetings · 12 May 2016, 19.00 UTC · 16 June 2016, 11.00 UTC · Face-to face meeting June 2016, time to be agreed, taking into account new meeting format. Suggested time: Thursday 30 June 2016, 13.30-14.45 (local time) 14) AOB 15) Closure