Dear all, The next Council Call will take place on Tuesday, 17th August 2010 at 12.00 UTC. Dial in details: http://www.adigo.com/icann/ Conference ID: 5258 Agenda: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/agenda-council-17aug10-en.pdf 1) Confirmation of Minutes and Actions from 8th June and 23 June 2010 Minutes 8th June 2010: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/minutes-council-08jun10-en.pdf Minutes 23 June 2010: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/minutes-council-23jun10-en.pdf 2) Kevin Wilson's Response to Finance Letter: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/response-to-ccnso-fy11-budget-questions-20jul10... 3) ccNSO Review: Council response? See attachment 1 4) Review Teams 4.1) Endorsement of Panellist for WHOIS review panel and Security & Stability review team Volunteers: Emily Taylor Simon McCalla Ondrej Filip Rodney Joffe See attachment 2 for CVs of volunteers. 6) Financial Contributions Working Group: 6.1) Approval of Charter Charter will follow in a separate email 7) SOP Working Group: 7.1) Endorsement of volunteers Jessica Calvo, .cr (observer) Etsushi Endo, .jp Mohamed Ibrahim, .so Staffan Jonson, .se Debbie Monahan, .nz Pablo Rodriguez, .pr Grigori Saghyan, .am Giovanni Seppia, .eu 7.2) Adoption of Updated Charter See attachment 3 (clean version & redline version) 8) Wildcard Study Group: Wildcard Study Group Recommendations: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/wildcard-study-final-report-22jun10-en.... 9) Joint DNS-CERT Charter Drafting Group: Jay Daley, .nz Luis Diego Espinoza, .cr Ondrej Filip, .cz Hiro Hotta, .jo Hansang Lee, .kr Jörg Schweiger, .de Tan Yaling, .cn Reply from Rod Beckstrom on letter DNS-CERT: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/beckstrom-to-langdon-orr-disspain-gomes-11aug10... 10) Council Working Group: See attachment 4 - Please do not distribute this report outside the ccNSO Council!!! 11) Nominations/Elections 11.1) Council Nominations/Elections: Suggested timeline: 17 August: Appointment of election manager (during council call) 31 August: Call for Nominations to the ccNSO Council 21 September: Deadline to nominate and second candidates 28 September: Last day for candidates to accept nomination 30 September: Announcement of results by Election manager; Election manager submits Nomination report (if applicable) If election needed: 5 October: Publication of list of electorate; campaign period opens 12 October: Campaign period closes; ballots issues to members of voting electorate 26 October: Voting closes 28 October: Announcement of results by Election manager; Election manager submits Election report (if applicable) If run-off elections needed: 2 November: Call for nominations 9 November: Deadline for vote second round 11 November: Announcement of results by Election manager; Election manager submits Election report (if applicable) 11.2) Board Nominations/Elections: Suggested timeline: 17 August: Appointment of election manager, approval of timeline 15 September: Call for Nominations 6 October: Closure of Nomination period 13 October: Acceptance of nomination by candidates 14 October: Announcement of results/whether election needs to take place; opens for mission statements 20 October: Telephone conference for community Q&A session with candidates 25 October: Voting starts 15 November: Closure of voting 13) Liaison Updates 13.1) At-Large Liaison See attachment 5 ALAC Statements: July 9th 2010 ALAC Statement on RAA subsection 3.7.7.3 PDF 0610-1 July 28th 2010 ALAC Statement on Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Initial Report PDF 0710-2 July 28th 2010 ALAC Statement on Policy Development Process (PDP) Work Team (WT) Initial Report PDF 0710-3 Travel tips from The Economist Courtesy of the ALAC list. (A second bowl of Corn Flakes may save your life) Word Document 13.2) GNSO Liaison GNSO Liaison report to follow