NOTES | ccNSO Council Meeting 171

March 25 (ICANN70) 17:30-19:00 UTC

 

  1. Welcome and roll call

 

No apologies

 

  1. Minutes & Action Items

 

    1. The Minutes of Meeting 170 have been circulated on 19 March 2021.
    2. Action items and To-do’s, if any

 

  1. Intermeeting Decisions (since 17 February 2021) 

 

 

  1. ccNSO Chair election and Vice-Chairs Election

 

a.      Ratification of Chair and Vice-Chair Election procedure

 

We are quorate

Moved? Margarita

Byron? Second

Against? None

Abstain? None

Formally ratified the procedure.

5 councilors will step down after this meeting, including the Chair

 

  1. Election of ccNSO Chair

 

Nomination process concluded.

Alejandra was nominated, seconded, accepted her nomination

1 year. End at conclusion of ICANN73

 

Move? Margarita

Second? Stephen?

Against? None

Abstain? None

All in favour

 

Congratulations to Alejandra.

 

  1. Election of ccNSO Vice-Chairs

 

Jordan Carter and Pablo Rodriguez were nominated, seconded, accepted their nomination

 

Move? Margarita

Second? Biyi

Questions or comments? None

Against? none

Abstain? none

All in favour

 

Congratulations to both

 

  1. Adoption Guideline: ccNSO appointments to specific groups

 

Moved? Margarita

Seconded? Pablo?

All in favour

 

  1. Adoption Chair and Vice-Chair Nomination and selection procedures ccNSO Working Group or Committee

 

We thought the procedure was clear, but that was not the case. Need to clarify.

Was prepared by GRC, sent to council for comments, then to members for comments. Now ready for adoption.

All in favour

 

 

  1. Appointment Alireza Saleh ccNSO liaison to GNSO IDN policy development efforts

 

GNSO appointed their liaison to the ccNSO efforts, and we appoint Alireza as liaison to the GNSO IDN pdp efforts.

 

Move? Pablo

Second? Stephen?

Against? None

Abstain? None

All in favour

 

 

  1. Adoption Roles and Responsibilities

 

Google sheet was distributed on council mailing list. Currently not enough volunteers stepped forward. Suggestion is to extend the deadline. Councillors are invited to review the google sheet and step forward. Procedure explained regarding what happens if more than 1 candidate steps forward for a certain position.

 

Move? Young-eum

Second? Souleymane

Any comments?

All in favour

 

  1. Review Governance session and Call for volunteers GRC sub-working Group amendment of 2004 Rules ccNSO

 

a.      Review of the members session

 

Call for volunteers for a sub-group to work on the new rules of the ccNSO.

 

b.      Establishing sub-group GRC and Call for volunteers

 

Notes by Joke and Zoom recording are available for the group to use.

Link to public schedule |  Governance session:  https://70.schedule.icann.org/meetings/9XogiuseKDvmeo3Fi#

 

Move? Margarita

Second? Young-eum

Stephen: the timeline is ambitious

Against? None

Abstain? None

In favour? All

 

  1. Initial Discussion “annual” work plan

 

Presentation by Bart (separate slide deck)

Impact and effort analysis as a prioritization exercise

 

    1. Overview current activities

 

    1. Update Guideline: ccNSO Work Plan, expand role Triage committee to oversee management of the annual and monthly workplan.

 

Next steps?

 

Jordan: test phase for Triage for 1 year. Might be a too big workload

Xavier: org is working on developing a similar prioritization framework. Similar to what Bart presented. Aimed at the work of ICANN as a whole. Mutual benefits in sharing experiences. Xavier will seek feedback from ccNSO through SOPC on the framework that is being developed.

 

Result:

Expectation: by May 2021

 

Against? None

Abstain? None

All in favour

 

 

  1. ccPDP3

 

    1. Part 1 Retirement – Update

 

Report out for public comments. No comments received to date

 

    1. Part 2 Review Mechanism –Update

 

Conversation with ICANN legal during the previous meeting.

 

  1. IDN ccPDP4: Update

Informational

 

  1. Update ECA & CSC
    1. ECA (Informational)
    2. CSC (Informational)

 

  1. Update Chair, Vice-Chairs, Councillors, ROs and Secretariat

 

  1. Update WGs
    1. SOPC

SOPC to review the preliminary feedback by ICANN org to the different comments

 

    1. IGLC: taken from the meeting

 

IGLC met on Thu, 25 March | 14 UTC as part of ICANN70

Interesting discussion

 

    1. Tech Day

 

Well attended. Over 100 attendees. Planning for next one ongoing

 

  1. Update liaisons

 

    1. Update ALAC Liaison (written update to follow)
    2. Update GNSO Liaison (written update to follow)

 

  1. Meetings: Next Council Meetings:

 

·         May 20 – 18:00 UAOB

  1. AOB

 

  1. Thank you and welcome

 

Goodbye to outgoing councillors, welcome to new Councillors

Byron: thank you to staff

Speeches by Alejandra, David Olive, Byron

Video

 

  1. Closure

 

 

 

Joke Braeken

ccNSO Policy Advisor

joke.braeken@icann.org