Dear all, First of all best wishes for 2019!! Please find included draft agenda for the upcoming Council meeting ( 17 January 2019) Kind regards, Bart Agenda and resolutions ccNSO Council Meeting 17 January 2019, 18.00 UTC 1) Welcome and Apologies Attendance list is available at: http://ccnso.icann.org/about/council/attendance.htm 2) Minutes and Actions Minutes 06 December 2018, circulated Action Item 146-01: The chair of the ccNSO is requested to inform the ICANN Secretary and candidates accordingly and invite the future Councillors for the upcoming Council workshop at the Kobe meeting. Completed Action Item 146-02: The Council requests the secretariat to publish this resolution and Terms of Reference as soon as possible and send out a call for volunteers as proposed. ( On-Boarding Programme) Completed Action Item 146-03: The ccNSO Chair draft a response to Roelof Meijer’s email regarding the Emoji Study Group. An email will also be drafted to the study group reminding them in addition to the technical aspects of using emojis as second level domains, to include the rationale as to why some ccTLDs do allow this, in their report. Completed Action Item 146-04: The Chair of the ccNSO Council is requested to inform ICANN Org on their decision to reconfirm candidates and requests them to seek approval from the other appointing members on behalf of the ccNSO Completed Action Item 146-05: The Chair of the ccNSO Council draft an explanatory note to be include in the email from Trang Nguyen to the appointing groups Completed Action Item 146-06: The secretariat to publish the Guideline: ccNSO selection and appointment liaison as soon as possible Completed Action Item 146-07: Post travel funding guideline to community mailing lists by end of week for community consultation Completed Action Item 146-08: Secretariat to develop maintenance plan ccTLD World email list, to be presented at the February meeting. Ongoing Action Item 146-09: The Secretariat to inform ICANN staff regarding appointment of Alejandra Reynoso as representative and mentor on the ICANN Fellowship Program. Completed Action Item 146-10: The Chair of the ccNSO Council along with Peter Vergote and the Secretariat to inform the community of the topic of moving the joint meeting with the GAC to Sunday so they can prepare for a more meaningful discussion on this subject. To be send late January or in February Ongoing Action Item 146-11: Council statement to be drafted and submitted regarding PDP Subsequent procedures WT 5. Draft completed, included for adoption. 3) Overview inter-meeting Council decisions Appointment new member ccNSO PDP WG retirement 4) Appointment ccNSO members Ethos Award Panel Margarita is term limited and Abibu has indicated not to volunteer again. ccNSO needs For decision 5) Confirmation & Call for volunteers SOPC For decision. 6) Appointment ccNSO On-boarding Committee For decision 7) Call for Volunteers ccNSO Liaisons ALAC and GNSO For decision Background material: Guideline: ccNSO Liaisons and Observers (https://ccnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/field-attached/guideline-liaison...)  8) Adoption ccNSO Council Statement on the supplemental initial report by WT5 For decision 9) Meeting Strategy Follow-up: Prepare for a new Cycle of meetings For discussion Background material: Final Report ccNSO Meeting Strategy review WG (https://ccnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/field-attached/ccnso-strategy-re...) 10) PDP Retirement Informational. Update progress (Stephen Deerhake) 11) ccNSO organizational review Progress to date and next steps (Katrina Sataki) 12) ECA, CSC and RZERC Update 12.1 ECA (Stephen Deerhake) 12.2 CSC (Byron) 12.3 CSC Effectiveness review (Debbie) 12.4 RZERC (placeholder) 13) ICANN64 Kobe 13.1 ccNSO Council meetings Council Workshop (Sunday, block 1 and 2) Council Prep Meeting (Sunday lunch) Council meeting with ALAC (Sunday, 17.00-17.45) Council meeting GNSO (Monday lunch) Council meeting (Wednesday, block 5, other, smaller room) 13.2 Council Workshop: topics for discussion Facilitated workshop - Workplan 2019-2020 - Table top exercises: Rejection Action Process & Triage Committee - Expectations of role of a councilor - Assignment Roles and Responsibilities Councillors 13.3 ICANN64 ccNSO Meetings Agenda (Alejandra) - Members day meetings - Meeting with GAC - Meeting the ICANN Board: Suggest topics for meeting with Board? 13.4 WG & other meetings Tech Day (Monday) CSC meeting ( Monday morning) WG meetings (starting Saturday!!) ccNSO Cocktail 14) Council Updates 14.1 Chair Update 14.2 Vice-Chair Update 14.3 Councilors Update 14.4    Regional Organizations Update 14.5    Secretariat update 15) WG update 15.1 GRC update (Katrina) 15.2 CCWG Auction Proceeds (Peter Vergote) 15.3 SOPC (Giovanni) 15.4 Emoji Study Group (Alejandra) 15.5 EPSRP Working Party (Katrina) 16) Liaison Updates 16.1 GNSO Update (written update) 16.2 ALAC update (written update) 17) Next meetings (2019) February 14th March – Kobe (9-14 March) April 18th May 16 or 23rd June – Marrakech (24-27 June) July/August – 22 August September 19 October 17th November -Montreal (2-7 November) December 19th 18)  AOB 19) Closure