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Ccnso 10-Year Anniversary Presentation 10 years of ccNSO 10 years of ccNSO Today we celebrateHow the it all began? WhereHow it areall beganwe now? ? 10th What have we anniversary of Whereaccomplished will we? go? ccNSO What do we still have to do? The Evolution of ccNSO DNSO and wwTLD Singapore 1999 First ICANN meeting Some ccTLDs are present and actively participate. First ideas of joining efforts are floating in the air ccTLDs are part of the DNSO together with gTLD registries, ISPs, Berlin Registrars, as well May 1999 as commercial and business entities. During this meeting in Berlin wwTLD is created. The first ADMIN Executive of wwTLD was appointed. Nii Quaynor Kilnam Chon (AFTLD) (APTLD) Oscar Robles Antony Van Peter de Blanc Dennis Jennings (LACTLD) Couvering (IATLD) (NATLD) (CENTR) Stockholm May 2001 ccTLDs decide to step out of DNSO and decide to work on the establishment of ccNSO ICANN 2.0 Evolution and Reform Committee appointed: Hans Alejandro Pisanty Nii Quaynor Lyman Chapin Kraaijenbrink September 2001 Assistance Group to ERC of 17 people appointed ICANN staff support: Theresa Swinehart Members of the AG Sebastien Bachollet (Business Constituency, CIGREF) Bart Boswinkel (.nl ccTLD) Becky Burr (Wilmer Cutler & Pickering) Chris Disspain (.au ccTLD) Hartmut Glaser (.br ccTLD, LACNIC) Alf Hansen (.no ccTLD) Hiro Hotta (.jp ccTLD, NTT, ISP/CP) Geoff Huston (IAB, Telstra, APNIC) Michael Katundu (Kenya GAC representative) Christian de Larrinaga (ISOC England) Pierre Ouedraogo (.bf ccTLD) Patricio Poblete (.cl ccTLD) Oscar Robles (.mx ccTLD) Philip Sheppard (Business Constituency, AIM, former NC Chair) Mohd Sharil Tarmizi (GAC Vice Chair, Malaysia representative) Kiyoshi Tsuru (IP consultant, WIPO panellist, Mexico) Bernard Turcotte (.ca ccTLD) Shanghai October 2002 ccTLDs present Final decision to step out of DNSO. Future policy scope and role of the ccNSO is envisaged Rio de Janeiro March 2003 ccTLDs discuss the structure of organisation and the role of its members. First policy documents are drafted Montreal June 2003 The ccTLD community and ERC enter the final stage of the discussions on the Bylaws. Bylaw changes are adopted by the ICANN Board What we saw yesterday was the result of a thorough, sometimes painful, but well done bottom up process. We've been standing here defending this principle and abiding by it, and I don't think it's the business of the Board to change something that came in this bottom up fashion. Ivan Mouru Campos A truly remarkable milestone in the history of ICANN's efforts. I congratulate the ERC, the ccTLD operators, the assistance committee, and the GAC for their remarkable work in producing this result. Vint Cerf I would just say that the constitution of the ccNSO bears witness to the effort of one man in particular, who was Hans Kraaijenbrink, who was a very key player in from the Board’s side in understanding the ccTLD problems, translating them for other members of the Board, and building solutions such that we now have the ccNSO. Alejandro Pisanty Carthage The first two meetings of the and Rome ccNSO members are sucessfully held In Rome the ccNSO was inaugurated: 30 ccTLD members, with a minimum of 3 from each region Kuala Lumpur July 2004 The first full 2 days ccNSO meeting open for members and non-members. The first meeting of the ccNSO Council. Chris Disspain becomes the first chair of the ccNSO. For the first time ccNSO working groups are appointed Cape Town December 2004 ccNSO Council appoint chair and vice chair. Initiation of the first Board selection process Mar del Plata April 2005 Vancouver November 2005 Initiation and conclusion of the first ccNSO PDP on changes to ccNSO Article in Bylaws. Considerable increase in membership Major achievements Cooperation Stabilising Relationship IDN ccTLDs And much Fast Track more... Cooperation More Looking for new ways of collaboration Engage and enter into Wildcarding dialogue Tech Day More attendants, more topics Sharing of experience and expertise Collaboration I am very glad that [..] many people are working together and finding ways to accomodate sometimes opposing principles and interests. We have enormous strength and flexibility... Alejandro Pisanty Stabilising Relationship So the biggest distinction, and I think the critical one, is that CCs are answerable to their local communities. Lesley Cowley Stabilising Relationship Equal Value Exchange Value Exchange Model Financial Contribution Stabilising Relationship IDN ccTLDs Fast Track The politics and the policy Fast Track Implementation Plan ccNSO-GAC working group created by ICANN Board IDN ccTLD Fast Track beginning at 00:00 UTC on 16 November 2009 The Board respectfully invites the Chairs of the ccNSO, GNSO, GAC, ALAC, and SSAC to set-up the IDNC Working Group and appoint members to this group as soon as possible and, when established, requests the IDNC Working Group to commence its work, in accordance with the Charter adopted by the ccNSO Council. ICANN Board resolution 2007, Los Angeles October 2009, Seoul We've had really good cooperation between the ccNSO and the GAC from the very beginning in working together to solve the issues questions and working on what the proper questions were. [..] So it's a tribute, really, to the multistakeholder model in action. Peter Dengate Thrush This truly is a momentous time, [..] I think there is an enormous amount of good feeling and intention that the Internet be a balanced, extended, and open access for all peoples of the world. Steve Crocker It is exemplary cooperation between different constituencies and different organizations within ICANN in developing policy and developing methodology for rolling out IDNs. Janis Karklins So I think we’re done on the IDNs. I’m waiting for the first one. Once the first one is done, then it’s done. And then we can accept that it’s been done and that’s really great. Chris Disspain ccNSO dinners Meetings with the governmental And much more... advisory committee GNSO, SSAC Board 10 active working groups 18 former working groups PDPs ccNSO Membership 140 120 100 80 60 Members 40 Applications 20 0 Membership : 137 July 2013 According to ICANN regions 4 37 42 25 29 Observers: AfTLD, APTLD, CENTR, LACTLD 44 ccNSO: Chairs, Vice-chairs, Board members Chairs Chris Disspain Lesley Cowley July 2004 – March 2011 March 2011 - July 2013 Vice Chairs Young Eum Lee Byron Holland Patricio Poblete Hiro Hotta Keith Davidson Board Members Peter Dengate Demi Getschko Mike Silber Chris Disspain Thrush Happy birthday, ccNSO! .
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