ccNSO Activity Summary
August 2014


Working/Study Group Output:

27 August - Meetings Programme Working Group Telephone Conference Notes

26 August - Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Country/Territory Names as TLDs Telephone Conference Transcript

5 August - Secure Email Communication for ccTLD Incident Response Working Group Telephone Conference Notes

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 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


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  

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 (open until 11 September)

18 August - Update from ICANN's Policy Department

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