ICANN 59

Dates:	26-29 June 2017
Location:	Johannesburg, South Africa
Venue:	Sandton Convention Centre
Registration:	Registration

ICANN 59 was a ICANN Meeting held in Johannesburg, South Africa, at which Hiro Hotta, .jp, and Patricio Poblete, .cl. received the ICANN Multistakeholder Ethos Award.

It was the 3rd return to South Africa after ICANN 21 in Cape Town and ICANN 47 in Durban.

Sessions

ASO

• ITEMS International presented the Draft Final Report of the organizational review of the ASO.

ccNSO

• The Cross-Community Working Group on the Use of Country and Territory Names as Top-Level Domains (CWG-UCTN) received support for the recommendation to close the working group and organize a new effort with a broader mandate embedded in a broader context.
• The ccNSO Guidelines Review Committee (GRC), formed to structure the decision-making of the ccNSO to become a Decisional Participant, found out that the ccNSO decision-making process is incompatible with the timelines of the ICANN Bylaws Approval Action procedure. The GRC proposed 3 solutions, of which the ccNSO Council decided that both the Approval Action process and the Rejection Action petition process should be subject to the request of a members’ ratification vote (under the ccNSO 2004 rules).
• The ccNSO Council approved Fundamental Bylaw change proposed by ICANN Board.
• The ccNSO Council initiated the third ccNSO Policy Development Process concerning the Retirement of ccTLDs and review mechanisms for decisions relating to the delegation, transfer, revocation, and retirement of ccTLDs.

Address Supporting Organization. Advises the Board with respect to policy issues relating to the operation, assignment, and management of Internet addresses (ICANN Bylaws).

Country Code Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board global policies relating to country-code top-level domains (ICANN Bylaws).