ccNSO Activity Summary August 2014 Working/Study Group Output: 27 August - Meetings Programme Working Group Telephone Conference Notes<http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/notes-programme-27aug14-en.pdf> 26 August - Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Country/Territory Names as TLDs Telephone Conference Transcript<http://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/transcript-ccwg-unct-26aug14-en.pdf> 5 August - Secure Email Communication for ccTLD Incident Response Working Group Telephone Conference Notes<http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/notes-secir-05aug14-en.pdf> Mp3 recordings and agendas of various ccNSO working group meetings can be found at http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar#aug ccNSO Council Output: Latest ccNSO Council Minutes London<http://ccnso.icann.org/node/46140> 25 June 2014. ccNSO Council preparation material and output can be found here http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/minutes.htm ccNSO Council Decisions on Requests for input: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/decisions.htm ccNSO Council Decisions and Resolutions: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/decisions-resolutions.htm ccNSO Membership: 19 August - .IN (India) Joins as Newest Member of the ccNSO<http://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-19aug14-en.htm> ccNSO-related Public Comment Periods: 25 August - ICANN's Board Working Group on the Nominating Committee (BWG-NomCom) report on the Nominating Committee (NomCom): https://www.icann.org/public-comments/bwg-nomcom-2014-08-21-en (Comments open until 21 October) 25 August - Four Registry Services Evaluation Process (RSEP) requests have been submitted by the registry operators for .club, .saarland, .immo and .sohu to allow the introduction of two-character domain names for these four TLDs. https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-08-19-en (Public comments welcome until 9 September) Links and Announcements regarding the IANA stewardship transfer: 19 August - Fadi Chehadé has written a blog post on the coming NETmundial Initiative announcement by the World Economic Forum in partnership with ICANN and other organisations: https://www.icann.org/news/blog/an-initiative-for-action 15 August - ICANN announcement on Enhancing ICANN Accountability and Governance: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-14-en Other Announcements: 28 August - Letter from ICANN CEO and Chair to SO/AC and Constituency Chairs reg. Announcement on Enhancing Accountability & FAQ's <http://ccnso.icann.org/about/chehade-crocker-to-so-ac-chairs-28aug14-en.pdf> 26 August - ICANN webpage on its participation in the upcoming IGF meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, 2-4 September: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-08-25-en 25 August - ICANN FAQ page for questions on ICANN's Accountability and Governance: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-22-en 25 August - Call for Nominations IANA Transition Coordination Group<http://ccnso.icann.org/about/elections/call-for-nominations-ccwg-iana-stewar...> (open until 11 September) 18 August - Update from ICANN's Policy Department<http://ccnso.icann.org/node/46237> 17 August - The 2014 Nominating Committee selected nominees: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-15-en 9 August - ICANN's Fellowship programme is now opening for applications to the Marrakech meeting 8 - 12 February 2015: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-08-08-en (Application period open until 19 September). 2 August - ICANN call for volunteers to serve on one of several panels that will define the rules for generating new top-level domain labels for the script or writing systems for their community: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-06-20-en