hello all, please find included below some notes from today’s ccNSO Council Meeting, held at 18 UTC. Best regards. Joke Braeken 1. Welcome and roll call Welcome by Katrina. Happy New Year and happy Lunar New Year We are quorate. 1 councillor from every region, 11 councillors Next meeting exceptionally on a Friday, 14 Febr (12:00 UTC) due to conflict with RO meeting. Informational only meeting, no decisions will be taken. We will prepare for our face to face meeting in March. Apology received from Giovanni. Byron needs to leave half an hour early. 2. Minutes & Action Items All action items completed 3. Intermeeting decisions (since 19 December 2019) · Launch of ccPDP 4, request of issue report · Appointment Abdullah Cemil AKÇAM (.tr) member IGLC · Selection Peter Janssen (.eu) and Luis Diego Espinoza (associated with .na) as the two ccNSO appointed members on the RSS GWG 4. Adoption joint ccNSO and GNSO SIFR Guideline version 1 Joint consultation with GNSO. No comments received form ccNSO members. This Guideline is in a final stage, ready to be approved. Move? Stephen Second? Byron Questions/comments? None Against? None Abstain? None All in favour Action item: inform GNSO that we have now officially adopted the joint guideline 5. Update Board Seat 11 Nomination Process Concerns on members mailing list from 2 members, concerns by Stephen who were addressed. Several councillors responded they were happy to move forward. All will be noted in the final report. Stephen: election is not run in conformance with resolution. Start date is 1 day later than what we stipulated. We need to consider addressing the issue. Conformity with guideline. Chair can specify a change. Katrina expresses support to Pablo and wishes him the best. Earthquakes in Puerto Rico on a daily basis. Nick: can this council meeting amend the dates of the previous resolution? Katrina: acknowledge the fact and move forward according to new timeline, voting starting 1 day later. Bart: secretariat will circulate a resolution online tomorrow. 6. ccPDP 3 1. Part 1 Retirement – Update Call just ended at the top of the hour. Stress-testing. Interim report available by Cancun. 1. Part 2 Review Mechanism – Update https://ccnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-20jan20-en.htm Call for volunteers was shared. As an experiment, we held a webinar earlier today. Consult the recording and the slide deck here: https://community.icann.org/display/ccnsowkspc/ccNSO+Webinars Might be used to inform the GAC and seek volunteers from their end. Webinar to be used for other WGs in future. 7. IDN ccTLD related work items ccPDP 4 & Bylaw change a. Launch ccPDP 4: Appointment an oversight committee. Volunteers to date are: Katrina Sataki (chair and EU), Pablo Rodiguez (NA), Hiro Hotta (AP), Margarita Valdes ( LAC), Abdalla Omari ( AF) and Laura Margolis (NomCom) and Marie-Noémie Marques (NomCom) Not required, but a council Committee could overlook the process Move? Alejandra Second? Pablo Against? None Abstain? Stephen withdraws his abstention Others are in favour b. Request change Article 10 and Annex B ICANN Bylaws to include IDN ccTLD Managers in the ccNSO For adoption Letter to the ICANN Board of Directors In Montreal we asked those in the room whether their sentiment has changed. Supported by all. Move? Young-eum Second? Hiro Include background, and explain how this letter and separation came about (ccPDP2-ccPDP4 and bylaw change) Young-eum: question regarding inclusion IDN ccTLDs? Katrina: discussion between 2007-2014. Allow IDN ccTLDs to become members of the ccNSO. Bylaw change needed. If there is a vote, there is one vote per country/territory. That addresses the issue if 2 different entities that operate ASCII ccTLD and IDN ccTLD operator need to coordinate. Against? None Abstain? Stephen Others are in favour. Resolution is passed 8. Update ccNSO related ICANN Bylaw Change Repository The Bylaw change repository has been updated: - Conclusion amendment Article 18 (IFR) - Possible need to strike section on ccNSO AGM (section 10.4.(f)). - Possible need to change section 10.3.d.(i) reference to date elected Councillors take their seat. Practice differs from what is included in the bylaws. (when elected council members take their seat) Stephen: either change the bylaw, or comply with the bylaw. 9. Preparation Cancun meeting (ICANN67, 7-12 March 2020) a. Council Workshop Suggested Topics: · Discussion on improving efficiency ccNSO PDPs ( Jordan) · Roles and responsibilities Councillors · Follow-up improvements ccNSO · Initial discussion priorities work plan ccNSO 2020-2022 · How to present Change of 2004 Rules of the ccNSO b. Council meeting: GNSO Council and ALAC No agenda set yet c. Tech Day & Members meeting * Agenda Tech Day Monday, 9 March 2020 https://go.icann.org/2tM3Vt4 * Agenda ccNSO Members Meeting Tuesday, 10 and Wednesday, 11 March 2020 https://go.icann.org/2Rj83K7 MPC is meeting next on Wed, 29 January. Final slots ccTLD News to be decided upon d. Plenary sessions: IoT and DNS (joint ccNSO-SSAC) e. WG meetings f. Joint meeting with the Board (Topics for discussion): * Letter to the Board re Bylaw change * Bylaw changes: omnibus change? Discussed in past. Action item: Council invited to suggest questions or discussion point for the joint meeting with the Board, and GNSO Council and ALAC g. Joint meeting with GAC- proposed topics: DNS Abuse, update PDPs Written update by Giovanni as submitted to Secretariat: “ccNSO-GAC relations for the next GAC meeting. I had a couple of calls with the GAC and the ccNSO to avoid overlapping of topics with the DNS abuse session at the ccNSO meeting in Cancun. I reached out to two registries for a presentation at the next GAC meeting.” 10. Update ECA & CSC a. ECA In hibernation. No new member b. CSC · December 2019 IANA Naming Function Performance Report scored 100%, meeting all SLAs thresholds. · The LGR metrics have been included in the December 2019 PTI Report for the first time. · The CSC and PTI approved the recommended ccTLD delegation/transfer SLAs and will now send them to the ccNSO and GNSO Councils for approval. · January teleconf was cancelled and online voting was performed instead. · February teleconf is scheduled at Wednesday, 19 February at 18:00 UTC 11. Updates Chair, Vice-Chairs and Councillors, Regional Organisations, secretariat. * Katrina attending SO/AC Chairs meeting in LA, leaving on Sunday. * One agenda item: how to ensure new chairs can work well together with other SO/AC chairs. Alejandra: mentor in fellowship programme. Successor needed for the next round, as mentor. 12. Updates WGs. a. ATRT 3 b. GRC c. IGLC d. SOPC Written update by Giovanni as submitted to Secretariat: “On 17 January the proposed working group distribution to comment on the ICANN Operating Plan and Budget FY21-25 (https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-opplan-budget-fy21-25-2019-12-20... [icann.org]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_public-2D...>) was circulated on the SOPC list. A SOPC call is scheduled on 24 January.” e. Meeting Program Committee See previous update by Alejandra regarding the Cancun scheduling Call for volunteers was launched. Will close tomorrow. https://ccnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-09jan20-en.htm f. TLD-OPS g. Auction Proceeds Stephen. ccNSO is a chartering organisation. Look at proposal, and consider it with respect to fiduciary responsibility of the Board and financial stability of ICANN 13. Update liaisons a. Update ALAC Liaison (written update) b. Update GNSO Liaison (written update) 14. Next meetings Please note the next meeting will be on Friday, 14 February, noon UTC and will be only informational (no decisions) · Friday, 14 February 2020 | 12:00 UTC · Wednesday, 11 March 2020 | 17:00 local time @ICANN67, Cancun · Thursday, 16 April 2020 | 12:00 UTC · Thursday, 21 May 2020 | 18:00 UTC · June @ICANN68, Kuala Lumpur · Thursday, 20 August 2020 | 12:00 UTC · Thursday, 17 September 2020 | 18:00 UTC · October @ICANN69, Hamburg · Thursday, 19 November 2020 | 12:00 UTC · Thursday, 17 December 2020 | 18:00 UTC 15. AOB none 16. Closure Thank you all for joining today. Bye all! Remember to vote in the ICANN Board Seat 11 elections and encourage other ccTLDs from your region to do so as well. No quorum requirement, but it is good to have a clear mandate from the community. 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