Dear all, Attached and below is some preparatory material for the next Council call. The draft agenda of the next Council call is available at http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/agenda-council-15sep09.pdf Agenda point 1) Confirmation of Approval of Minutes and Actions from Council call 24th August 2009: The minutes are attached (attachment 1). The actions are following: Action 43-01: The Chair to send out a note to the group regarding an update from the GAC Liaison Working Group. Action 43-02 Bart Boswinkel to inform the relevant people about the approval of the JIG Working Group Charter. Action 43-03 The Chair to contact Kieren MacKarthy and find out if a Message Board tool can be implemented on the ccNSO website in a timely manner. Action 43-04: Gabriella Schittek and Paulos Nyirenda to contact the .tz applicants and ask for a corrected application. Action 43-05: Bart Boswinkel to send out a status paper to the Council with background information on the resolutions passed by the ICANN Board. Action 43-06: Ron Sherwood to send out links about the reported issues to the Secretariat for further distribution. Action 43-07: Becky Burr to send out a note to the Secretariat and Chair about the review and registry/registrar issues for further distribution. Agenda point 4) Review of Recommendations from the Participation Working Group's Final Report: The Report is available at http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/ccnso-participationwg-final-report-feb0... The recommendations that concern the ccNSO Council and Secretariat are: 4. Outstanding Recommendations 4.1 ccNSO Council We recommend that the Council should: * Introduce a ccTLD mentor programme - where interested ccTLD Managers would be mentored by volunteer experienced ccTLD Managers * Conduct any relevant ICANN surveys in collaboration with the RO's and consider coordinating any relevant global ccTLD surveys via the RO's. * Improve liaison collaboration between the ccNSO and the RO's * Continue to update ccNSO Members on the work of the RO's 4.5 Secretariat We recommend that the Secretariat should: * Publish a list of ccNSO participants to the ccNSO website in advance of each meeting, to facilitate better networking. (As a sub-section of the Registered Attendees who have given permission for their names to be published) * Endeavour to upload relevant documents and communiqués in a timely manner * Create a ccTLD profile page for each ccTLD on the ccNSO website (for example to include a brief history, contact information and a link to the website of the ccTLD) * Create a resource area for ccTLD managers on the ccNSO website (for example with links to registry management software etc.) Agenda point 5.2) Strategic and Operational Planning Working Group Update List of Volunteers: Sabine Dolderer, .de Roelof Meijer, .nl Eswari Sharma, .np Leonid Todorov, .ru Agenda point 5.5) Working Group Update - Meeting Programme Working Group The latest draft agenda is attached (attachment 2). The highlighted parts still need confirmation. Agenda Point 5.6) Working Group Update - Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN Working Group List of Volunteers: Erick Iriarte Ahon, (LACTLD, observer) Fahd Batayneh, .jo Chamara Disanayake, .lk Andrei Kolesnikov, .ru Han Chuan Lee, .sg Yeo Yee Ling, .my Doron Shikmoni, .il Jian Zhang, .cn Agenda Point 5.8) Working Group Update - Ad-hoc Working Group for Instance Response plan: List of Volunteers: Fahd Batayneh, .jo Stephen Deerhake, .as Keith Drazek, .us Luis Diego Espinoza, .cr Ondrej Filip, .cz Ben Fuller, .na Otmar Lendl, CERT .at Janantha Marasinghe, CERT .lk Yasuhiro Orange Morishitam .jp Nigel Roberts, .gg Jose Romero, .pe Hugo Salgado, .cl Katrina Sataki, .lv Eswari Sharma, .np Jörg Schweiger, .de Agenda point 6) Liaison Update: The ALAC and GNSO liaisons will send out written updates to the Council list prior to the meeting. Kind regards, Gabi