Schedule: ccNSO

Saturday, 6 March 2010

17:00 - 18:00
Taifa

Sunday, 7 March 2010

09:00 - 14:00
Shimba

What It Is | Workshop for ccNSO Council members to revise its past work and establish future priorities.

Who Should Attend | ccNSO Council members


14:00 - 15:30
Shimba

What it is | An open workshop on issues relating to the delegation, redelegation and retirement of ccTLDs.

Why it's important | The ccNSO has established a Working Group to look at the Delegation, Re-delegation and Retirement of ccTLD's, essentially reviewing the existing policies and guidelines used by IANA, and comparing these to the actual procedures adopted by IANA. The working group's aim is to make recommendations to the ccNSO on any gaps between policies and practices, and is not empowered to engage in any policy development process.

While the working group can not have any specific delegation, redelegation or retirement procedure re-litigated, members of the working group are interested in specific issues that have arisen in the past, where ccTLDs have been through this process.

The Working Group is convening a 90 minute open workshop to be held on Sunday 7 March (14:00 - 15:30 hours, local time) at ICANN Nairobi, and invites stakeholders to provide presentations on issues relating to the delegation, re-delegation or retirement of ccTLDs, and their experiences with IANA. Stakeholders may be any group comprising the local Internet community.

Presentations should be concise, and will be confined to a maximum of 10 minutes per speaker, and should seek to address any perceived shortfalls between the policies and guidelines (including RFC1591, ICANN ICP1, and the Government Advisory Committee Principles on delegation and re-delegation of ccTLDs) and the actual procedure used by IANA. The session will be, at a minimum, audio recorded, and remote participation will be enabled.

This Working Group is a large and diverse group who would appreciate the opportunity to hear from the ccTLD community.

Who should attend | ccTLD managers, Government, people interested in the topic


15:00 - 17:00
Aberdere

What It Is | Meeting for ccNSO Strategic and Operational Plan Working Group members, analysing ICANN's Strategic and Operational Plan from a ccTLD perspective.

Who Should Attend | SOP Working Group members


15:30 - 16:30
Shimba

What It Is | Meeting for ccNSO Technical Working Group members to discuss current and future work of the group.

Who Should Attend | ccNSO Tech Working Group members


16:30 - 18:00
Shimba

Monday, 8 March 2010

10:00 - 18:00
Shimba

What It Is | A meeting for everyone interested in technical issues affecting the operations of ccTLDs.


13:00 - 14:00
Lenana

What it is | Joint ccNSO/GNSO Council meeting to discuss topics of ineterst to both Councils. Proposed topics for discussion https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?proposed_agenda_8_march_2010

Why it's important | The in-person meetings held in conjunction with the ICANN meetings provide an opportunity for productive and constructive discussions on issues that involve ICANN consensus policies that relate to interoperability, technical reliability and /or stable operation of the Internet or domain name system.


Tuesday, 9 March 2010

09:00 - 18:00
Tsavo A

What It Is | The Country-Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) which helps develop global policy for country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs), convenes both a members meeting and a Council meeting in Nairobi.

Why It's Important | The Council and Members will discuss a number of issues affecting a cross-section of the world's country codes. Additionally there will be updates on developments and best practice from various ccTLD managers.

Who Should Attend | Anyone with an interest in ccTLD issues specifically, and the Domain Name System in general, including registrars, registries, businesses, Internet Service Providers, Internet users, and government representatives.


14:00 - 15:45
Lenana

What It Is | A joint meeting of the GAC and the ccNSO to discuss issues of mutual interest

Why It's Important | The GAC and ccNSO share many areas of common work, like the IDN fast-track and policy development process, geographic regions, the delegation-redelegation working group, the issue of geographic names in the new gTLDs process. This session will provide the opportunity of a in-depth discussion of these issues.

Who Should Attend | This session will be attended by GAC representatives and ccNSO Councillors and members. Other interested people can attend, but will not be able to contribute to the discussion