Dear all,

Please find included the first draft agenda. Please note I have included already a categorization of items:

Closer to the meeting I will send additional materials

Kind regards,

Bart

 

Draft Agenda ccNSO Council Meeting

29 June 2017, 9.00 local time

version 2

 

1) Welcome and Apologies

Attendance list is available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/attendance.htm

 

2) Minutes and Actions

Minutes 18 May 2017.

Action items

 

3) Overview: inter-meeting Council decisions

- Appointment of the team to develop Terms of Reference for the CSC charter review

 

 

Proposed items consent part

4) PDP: Appointment chair and co-chair

In accordance with charter PDP WG Retirement the WG members have nominated Nigel Roberts as chair and Eberhard Lisse as vice-chair.

 

5) Terms of Reference for review of the CSC charter

Update, for discussion and / or adoption

 

6) Appointment: Jacques Latour as the Chair of TLD-OPS Steering Committee

Cristian Hesselman will step down at the end of the meeting as chair of the TLD OPS steering committee. The members of this group unanimously nominated Jacques Latour.

 

7) Extension mandate of the CCWG Accountability

See letter CCWG chairs, was deferred from last meeting.

 

8) Call for volunteers: ccNSO appointed member to NomCom FY 18

The ccNSo will need to appoint a member to the NomCom for FY 2018 nomination process. Joerg Schweiger (current member) is not eligible.

Decision: call for volunteers NomCom FY 2018.

 

 

For discussion and decision

9) Adoption: Final Paper of the Cross-community WG Use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs

9.1 Discussion and or adoption final paper

(https://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/ccwg-ctn-final-paper-15jun17-en.pdf )

 

9.2 Discussion recommendation Study Group CTN Letter to the Board to request continued exclusion of country and territory names in subsequent new gTLDs rounds.

For discussion and / or decision.

Background: In September 2014 the Study Group recommended Council: In light of the need for further work on the treatment of country and territory names, the complexity of the issue at hand and the aforementioned inconsistencies between various ICANN policies, it is also recommended that the ccNSO Council request that the ICANN Board extend the current rule in the new gTLD Applicant Guidebook regarding the exclusion of all country and territory names in all languages, for consecutive rounds of new gTLD applications.

 

Council adopted this recommendation in 2014. Given the establishment of the CCWG UCTN, Council did not pursue this recommendation, awaiting the outcome of the deliberations and recommendations of the CCWG.

 

10) Discussion and Adoption: Guideline: ccNSO Procedure for the Exercise of the Empowered Community’s rights to Approve Specified Actions

For discussion and/or decision.

 

11) Further steps with respect to .cr case

 

12) Participation of the ccNSO in the Abu Dhabi meeting

For discussion and decision, taking into account results of the community discussions.

 

13)  Progress Terms of Reference review CSC charter

Update and possibly for adoption

 

14) ccNSO as Decisional Participant: Approval Action Fundamental Bylaw change

For discussion and preliminary decision ( how and when does ccNSO want to decide)

Update & next steps

How and when to decide to Support, Abstain or object to Fundamental Bylaw change ( email, conference call, other means, within 21 days window post ICANN 59 the decision wil have to be communicated to the ECA)

 

Background: the ccNSO (Council)  has a 21 days period to Support, Abstain or object to Fundamental Bylaw change. This period starts at the end of the Community Forum period (Thursday 29 June, 23.59 local time Johannesburg). If the ccNSO decision is taken post this window, I.e communicated to the ECA, by definition the ccNSO  has abstained.

 

Updates

15) Update: FAQ by the GAC Underserved Regions

 

16) Update amendment charter CWG Internet Governance

 

17)  Council Updates

17.1    Chair Update

17.2    Vice-Chair Update

17.3    Councilors Update

17.4    Regional Organizations Update

17.5    Secretariat update

 

18) PDP update/ progress

 

19) CSC, RZERC and ECA

19.1 CSC update (Byron)

19.2 RZERC update

19.3 ECA update (other than approval action)

 

20) WG update

20.1 Programme WG

20.2 GRC update

20.3 SOPWG update

20.4 TLD-OPS update

20.5 CCWG Auction Proceeds

20.6 CWG Internet Governance

 

21) Liaison Updates

21.1    GNSO Update (written update).

22.2    ALAC Update (written update).

 

Closing

22)  AOB

- Prepare Board and Council elections decisions for upcoming meeting

 

23) Next meetings

 

24) Thank you’s 

 

25) Adjourn