Dear Councillors, Here is another updated version of the Council Preparation Material, with all Working Group reports received, now also including one from Roelof on behalf of the SOP WG… which he sent well in time for posting, but which I missed… my apologies… Gabi == Draft Council Agenda ccNSO Council Meeting 8 May 2012 Agenda: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/agenda-council-08may12-en.pdf 1. Minutes and Actions ccNSO Council Meeting 17 April 2012 1.1 Minutes 1.2 Actions Minutes & Actions 17 April Council Telephone Conference: http://www.ccnso.icann.org/node/31167 2. Updates 2.1 Chair 2.2 Vice-chairs 2.3 Councillors 2.4 Observers 2.5 ccNSO support staff 3. ccNSO Statements Process. 4. Council Input to change ICANN Meeting Schedule See email from Lesley Cowley to Council, 30 April 2012: * * "/…/A request for comments on the suggestion that the presentation of the SO/AC reports and Board meeting that take place on the Friday of each meeting week be changed, in order to allow for more emphasis on enhanced interaction throughout the week. If you have any comments on this suggestion, they would be appreciated." * 5. Cross Constituency Working Group Principles See attachment 1 6. Working Group and OtherUpdates 6.1 Finance Working Group 6.2 SOP Working Group Although we were earlier informed that ICANN would not be able to stick to their planning, it appears the draft budget will be posted on 1 May. Xavier also indicated he wants organise and set-up one or two calls with the entire community. The SOP will probably set-up a call for 7 or 9 May to organise the response. * 6.3 Framework of Interpretation Working Group 6.4 Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN Working Group (JIG) * Update appointments and voting. 6.5 Joint Security & Stability Working Group (DSSA) 6.6 Study Group on Use of Names for Countries and Territories Discussions with UNESCO, regarding the circulation of a survey to Member States, have now been finalised. The survey will canvass the way in which UNESCO Member States represent the name of their country, and those of other States, in their local languages and scripts. UNESCO has incorporated all of the SG’s advice regarding the need for consulting with a sub-group of States that is geographically and linguistically diverse (e.g. capturing Cyrillic scripts in Europe, unique native African languages etc). The survey will be circulated within a few weeks (ICANN community leaders will be notified at the time of release) and results are expected soon after the Prague meeting. In the meantime, the SG has commenced its own deliberations regarding the issues raised in the survey and will maintain a busy fortnightly teleconference schedule in the lead up to Prague. * 6.7 Meetings Programme WG Since the last report the Working Group had another conference call. We continued our discussion about meeting attractiveness improvement. We decided to prepare a facebook page for the meeting participants. To help less experienced speakers the WG published Presentation Guidelines. We decided that the main topic of the panel discussion will be Internet Governance and we are currently working on a briefing paper. The meeting agenda is currently published and we do not expect any major changes. The WG also appointed a liaison (Ondrej Filip) to the Informal Study Group on Capacity Building. * 6.8 Informal Study Group on Capacity Building 6.9 Public comment requests (new item, report from Councillors Vika and Keith, staff), material on alert list. Not included in this overview are: * GAC-ccNSO liaison WG. Until further notice the WG is dormant. * Contact Repository Implementation Working Group * IDN PDP Working Groups 7. ICANN Academy Working Group: Appointment of Volunteers Volunteers: Eberhard Lisse, .na Nigel Roberts, .gg & .je Grigori Saghyan, am Ron Sherwood, .vi Hong Xue, ccNSO Councillor (NomCom) Hongbin Zhu, .cn Background: The Chair of the ALAC requested two volunteers from ccNSO to participate in development of the ICANN Academy and its curriculum (for background see: http://costarica43.icann.org/meetings/sanjose2012/presentation-icann-academy...). To date 6 volunteers. - Criteria for appointment: * Knowledge of At Large, * Intimate knowledge of ccNSO/ ccTLD community and their needs * Ability to align activities of Academy with ccNSO needs and activities - Appointment of volunteers 8. GAC-ccNSO Council Topics 8.1 Introduction session on ccNSO 8.2 Topics for joint meeting (proposal) * Progress FOIWG to date, * Country names Study Group/UNECO survey, progress to date of study group * ccNSO view Ops Plan and Budget 9. ccNSO-GNSO Meeting Topics Porposal topics for Lunch meeting in Prague: (briefing for Juhani and Roelof) 10. Topics for Discussion Across Communities See email from Lesley Cowley to Council, 30 April 2012: "/…/ A request for suggestions on any topics of cross-community common interest for the Prague meeting agenda, so that specific sessions can be scheduled outside of the SO/AC meetings. These should be on common topics that will be of wide interest and which can have open participation from across the ICANN community. If you have any topic suggestions, please could you let me know as soon as possible." 11. Draft Agenda Prague Meeting http://www.ccnso.icann.org/node/31117 12. Liaison updates 11.1 ALAC liaison See attachment 2 11.2 GNSO liaison 13 . Next ccNSO Council Meetings Not delivered in time for posting. 14 . AOB