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
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
6.7 Meetings Programme WG.
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-15mar12-en.pdf). 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