Report to APTLD KL Meeting on ICANN relations

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Report to APTLD KL Meeting on ICANN relations

• Peter Dengate Thrush
• 18 July 2004

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Formation of the ccNSO

• ccNSO reached Live status before Rome meeting,
  March 2004. First Members meeting.
• Was an earlier meeting of members in Carthage,
  before ccNSO went live.
• Process since Rome on electing first Council.
• Election process established in Rome.

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Formation of the ccNSO

• APTLD members of Launching Group- Hotta, .jp
  Dengate Thrush,.nz Disspain,.au
• Glen de St Gery ( GNSO staff) appointed Election
  Manager
• Jim Higgins (NZ) Ken Fockler (CA), and Hartmut
  Glaser (BR) appointed Supervisers
• Nominations opened,closed, reopened,closed again.

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Formation of the ccNSO

• Nominations from AP region were Hotta,(.jp)
  Disspain (.au) and Lee (kr).
• 3 nominations only from each other region
• All nominees declared elected, without need for a
  ballot, by Supervisors
• First Council meeting scheduled for KL
• APTLD congratulates Chris Disspain (.au) elected
  interim CCC chair

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Formation of the ccNSO

• Early business expected to be mix of start up -
  Rules, secretariat, etc and .. Business -
  individual cctld contracts with ICANN -
  Responsibility Frameworks, Change of cctld
  Manager ( re-Delegation)
• APTLD expected to apply/notify ccNSO of
  willingness to serve as Regional Association
  under Bylaws.

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Formation of the ccNSO

• Substantial effect of Bylaw changes made by ICANN
  board arising from Rome meeting.
• Bylaws clearly not binding on individual ccTLDs
• ccNSO has no power to make policy binding on any
  ccTLDs
• Principles agreed in Montreal now recorded in
  bylaws

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Impact on other cctlds

• Despite Montreal agreement now recorded, many
  euro cctlds prefer not to join, citing trivial
  remaining, or new, bylaw issues.
• Danger of being left behind, as no clear
  mechanism for further bylaw changes
• Some new bylaw issues are positive - expect
  ccNSO to establish review process, but do not
  expect rapid work schedule

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Impact on other cctlds

• Some european managers called in Rome meeting for
  APTLD to organise KL meeting
• Declined, as cctld meetings should be global, not
  regional responsibility
• wwTLD Agenda Committee formed
• APTLD appoints Dengate Thrush (.nz)and Tso (.tw)
  as delegates
• Secretariat support offered for meeting.

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A wwTLD meeting

• Centr appoints Roberts (.gg) and Schtick (Staff)
  as members
• Meeting room booked for Sat 17 July
• No other region chooses to join Committee
• No one on list responds to calls for separate
  meeting, until very late
• LACTLD says no separate meeting
• Others- Africa/North America -silent

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A wwTLD Meeting

• Private meeting organised by what appears to be 2
  Verisign-managed cctlds
• Despite calls for their identity to be revealed,
  no identification occurs
• Timed so that ccNSO members cannot attend
• Adcom objects to privately organised meeting
  being called a wwTLD meeting

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Fortress Europeproblem for cctlds

• Euro cctlds refuse to join ccNSO
• Euro cctlds withdraw from Adcom
• Euro cctlds refuse to join global cctld body
• APTLD should use mutual membership relationship
  with Centr to explore resolution to reduce
  tensions and potential european isolation from
  global cctlds

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Other ICANN matters

• Budget likely to be approved in KL
• WSIS meetings Tuesday - likely to continue APTLD
  position from Busan and Carthage
• UN Committee now looking at Internet Governance
  - out of WSIS??
• ITU/ICANN meeting Saturday 24 July to look at
  ccTLD matters...

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Conclusion

• ccNSO well underway
• Need to maintain cctld harmony
• APTLD members are contributing
• Especially the Secretariat! Many thanks to the
  staff for their work on this APTLD meeting, and
  also for ccnso meeeting