ICANN68 | NOTES ccNSO Council Meeting
Wednesday, 24 June 2020|
07:00 UTC - 08:00 UTC
https://68.schedule.icann.org/meetings/ggSYJ3MPmhqE6axoX
Welcome by Chair Katrina Sataki (.lv)
No Council prep, unlike at face-to-face meetings
Few weeks ago a virtual council workshop. We will probably have more often workshops, now that we can do them virtually.
2.
Minutes, Action Items & To-Do’s
Minutes previous Council meeting distributed to Council mailing list on 20 June
Still 2 ongoing action items:
3.
Intermeeting ccNSO Council decisions & Actions (since 16 April 2020)
We selected a NomCom delegate. Juhani Juselius (.fi) Congratulations to Juhani
4.
Approval of amended SOPC Charter
Major changes: membership rules
E.g. Chair may advise Council Chair to terminate membership of non-responsive members.
Move? Pablo
Second? Alejandra
Questions or comments? None
Against? None
Abstain? None
All in favour
5.
Adoption of RWP’s proposed assessment & initial Implementation Plan ccNSO Review
ccNSO organisational review. 14 final recommendations. RWP reviewed the recommendations and decided what to do. Completed a report, which needs to be submitted to the Board.
RWP fully supported 4 recommendations, considered some already implemented (e.g. 4 and 12), and supported the issues as identified by the independent reviewer, but did
not support the recommendations. 6 recommendations: revised approach suggested.
Discussion regarding term limits for ccNSO Councillors. Currently there are no term limits.
Good governance: something needs to be done. To be discussed with the community. Better to have this discussion face-to-face. Not just whether to have term limits, but
also how to implement it. Bart produced a table, to see how many years Councillors served. Being displayed in the zoom room. Median length of service: probably less than 9 years, 7 or 8.
Move? Alejandra
Second? Pablo
Comments or questions?
Council to inform RWP, RWP should submit the results of the review to the Board OECD.
Young-eum: agrees with recommendation number 5. We need new blood on the Council.
Katrina: we do not have a long line of volunteers. Uncontested elections.
Alejandra: the fact that there is no term limit is an issue. People are already in the Council and willing to continue. Community might not suggest a replacement for that
reason.
Against? None
Abstain? None
All in favour
6.
Update ccPDP 3
a.
Part 1 Retirement – Update
The third ccNSO Policy Development Process (ccPDP3-RET) Working Group, tasked with developing and proposing policy for the retirement
of country code Top-Level Domains, is seeking input and feedback from the broader community on its proposed process to retire ccTLDs, when the country code is removed from the list of country codes in the ISO3166 standard.
After closure of the public comment period, the working group will review the comments received and take into account while developing
a final set of policy recommendations. Close date for public comments is 10 July 2020 (23:59 UTC). Read more
here.
The ccPDP3-RM Working Group focuses on the development of a review mechanisms pertaining to decisions regarding the delegation, transfer,
revocation and retirement of ccTLDs. The group decided on a 3-step approach to identify decisions that should be subject to review:
As part of the development of the retirement process, the ccPDP3-RET WG compiled a list of 6 decisions taken by the IANA Function Operator
(IFO) and the ICANN Board of Directors. PTI staff presented an overview of the
delegation and transfer process, to identify decision points.
2.
Scope
As a next step, the WG needs to determine whether the decisions are within scope of the policy on the proposed review mechanism.
3.
Questions
Lastly, the group is advised to discuss a set of questions, on who takes the identified decision, who and how is oversight provided and
which decisions are to be made subject to a review mechanism
For more information, go to the
ccPDP3-RM workspace.
7.
IDN ccTLD related work items
a.
ccPDP4
This fourth-ever ccNSO Policy Development Process aims to develop policy recommendations for the ICANN Board. In time,
the results of this ccPDP will replace the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process, which currently guides the selection process of IDN ccTLD strings.
During its meeting on 21 May, the ccNSO Council adopted the
Issue Report on Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) country code top-level domain strings. With the adoption of this report, the fourth policy development process (ccPDP) for the ccNSO is initiated.
Mid-July 2020, the ccNSO Secretariat will send out a call for volunteers and will invite stakeholders as listed in the group’s charter,
to join the Working Group. Prior to this call for volunteers, the secretariat will organise 2 editions of a webinar, on 8 and 9 July, to inform the community about the topics to be addressed and the working methods of the ccPDP4 WG. A save-the-date
was posted here:
https://ccnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-23jun20-en.htm
Presentation and recording for the webinar will be posted here:
https://community.icann.org/x/H4VIC
8.
ccNSO Board Seat 12 Nomination process
Due diligence verifications: sufficient time this round.
1 candidate has been nominated, with several secondments.
9.
ccNSO Council Nomination and Election Process 2021
Elections around the third ICANN meeting of the year, following a Q&A session.
Proposed timeline shared in background material, and shown in Zoom.
Term end in March 2021:
Abdalla (AF)
Young-eum (AP)
Katrina (EU)
Margarita (LAC)
Byron (NA)
Joke to be appointed as election manager, and adopt the timeline.
Move? Stephen
Second? Young-eum
All in favour
10.
Adoption ccNSO Council letter to the Board on approval process FY 21 Budget and 5-years operational plan.
The process caused concerns. No question regarding the need to take the decision
Draft letter was circulated with Council
Move? Giovanni
Second? Pablo
11.
Adoption Final Report CCWG Auction Proceeds
Final report to be adopted during the August meeting, by the ccNSO as one of the Chartering Organisations.
An informational webinar for the Chartering Organizations of the CCWG Auction Proceeds about the CCWG’s
Final Report
will take place on Tuesday, 7 July at 12:00 UTC for 60 minutes. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to
gnso-secs@icann.org to receive Zoom details. The webinar will be open to all interested.
12.
Review ccNSO Council Workshop: Format, results and next steps
Consolidated overview of the weaknesses and strengths. Action on how to address them. Bart will share that next week, post ICANN68. Review this at the next meeting.
Bart also started looking at the ccNSO recommendations around the purpose of the ccNSO, but also its operations and structure. Major one: updating the ccNSO website (one of the major weaknesses
of the ccNSO). Actionable items.
Results of the polling around the purpose and value of the ccNSO. Clear that the vast majority of the Council strongly agrees with it. A minority agrees, but not in full. No shift over time.
The poll (same question) was repeated twice: first at the start of the workshop, and then also at the end.
Katrina: we used to have 1 Council Workshop per year. We could hold workshops 4 or 5 times per year.
Topic foreseen for ICANN67: how to make ccPDPs more efficient and effective? Still to be discussed.
Feedback regarding number of workshops? Stephen thinks we should be more conservative.
13.
Update ECA & CSC
a.
ECA
PTI performance over May 2020: 100% met thresholds
ccTLD delegation and SLAs approved by ccNSO and GNSO Councils. Will become effective 1 June
Call for volunteers closed last Friday. 1 candidate; Brett Carr
Consultation with RySG on slate of members. Hopefully to be concluded by Mid July. Full slate approval foreseen by Mid September.
14.
Council updates (Chair, Vice-Chairs, Councillors, Regional Organisations, Secretariat)
Good email exchange.
15.
WG/Committee Updates
a.
GRC
The ccNSO Guidelines Review Committee is currently discussing the following topics:
The SOPC will meet as part of ICANN68, on Thursday, 25 June (08:30-09:30 UTC). Join us
here.
One of the ccNSO success stories.
Thanks for another excellent Tech Day. good attendance, and interesting presentations.
Recording is available
Thanks to MPC Chair and the committee members for excellent planning
16.
Update liaisons
a.
Update ALAC Liaison (written update)
b.
Update GNSO Liaison (written update)
17.
Meetings
a.
ICANN68 as virtual meeting: first impressions.
2 sessions as part of the members meeting were already concluded.
The ccNSO Members Meeting as part of the ICANN68 Virtual Policy Forum focuses on 3 sessions:
Consult the ICANN68 ccNSO Members Meeting Session Brief
here.
Positive feedback from Stephen Deerhake and David McAuley and Nick. Max 1 hour is ideal, breaks were good in between. Lots of efforts were put into the prep work for these sessions.
Alejandra: good idea to have sessions prior to ICANN68, to not overload ICANN68. Biyi agreed.
We adjusted well to the zoom room settings. ccNSO Cocktail was great. Video was good.
Pablo: useful and interesting that we picked content relevant to others, outside of the ccNSO. Polling during the session on Tuesday was helpful.
Katrina: being a panelist and seeing the participants in the webinar zoom room was helpful.
· 20 August – 12:00 UTC
· 17 September – 18:00 UTC
· October @ICANN69: Virtual meeting
· 19 November – 12:00 UTC
· 17 December – 18:00 UTC
Alejandra: what happened to the rotation we decided last meeting?
Katrina: we need to look into this.
Another Council Workshop prior to ICANN69.
Council meetings are open to observers, including the regular ones, not held at the occasion of ICANN meetings. To those interested: feel free to join.
18.
AOB
Draft paper on return to face-to-face meetings. Phased approach suggested. To be discussed during the plenary session on Thursday, as part of ICANN68.
Alejandra: what will happen in the future? Do not think it is realistic to have face-to-face meetings soon. Cancun might not be possible, even though she wishes for it.
Stephen: issues for those travellers from the US for the foreseeable future
Marie-Noemie: good to have a plan. Physical participation used to be preferred. Now that we have remote only, the idea is to move to physical participation in a cautious manner. People with higher risk. Must consider
their own personal safety.
Nick: agrees with Peter. Regional meetings for Regional Organisations. Opportunities to increase participation, while we do not have physical meetings. Environmental impact. Interesting time, stretch boundaries
of the possibilities
19.
Closure
Thank you all. Bye.
Joke Braeken
ccNSO Policy Advisor
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