[council] Recapping today's ccNSO Council meeting

[john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

 All,
 Today's ccNSO Council meeting did not have a quorum so all motions were put 
off.  Interestingly, not put off to the next meeting, but to the mailing list.  
An example of some of the ways our two Councils operate differently.
 Let with discussion items only, the bulk of the meeting was devoted to 
Internet governance.  While the best that was said is that the multiple efforts 
(e.g., 1Net, cross-community working group, Strategy Panel on the Internet 
Governance Ecosystem and the 5th Panel) are “starting to get more functional.”  
 It is clear that momentum on this issue and the date of the meeting in Brazil 
will make it hard for ICANN in general and Fadi in particular to tamp down 
urgency on Internet governance in Singapore.  We know this is his intent on the 
strength of his comments at the most recent SO & AC Leaders conference call.
 There were some stats reported about the Brazil meeting.  There are 800 spots 
available and 433 “expressions of interest” have been made.  Of those 
expressions, 31 percent are female and 69 percent are male.  Regionally, 37 
percent are from Latin America, 19 percent are from Europe, 18 percent are from 
North America, 12 percent from Asia, 11 percent from Africa and 3 percent from 
Oceana.  
 There was a sense of the ccNSO Council that participation by ccTLD managers is 
being tamped down because the organizers are focused on three other kinds of 
participants: Government, Business and Civil Society.  The frustration over 
this was focused on the future of the IANA contract which it was said is 
essential to the cc's.
 Finally, there was a report from staff that name collisions will be on the 
Singapore agenda for the ccNSO Council meeting.
 Cheers,
 Berard