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-en.pdf

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.pdf
 
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-en.pdf

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