ICANN 59
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| 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.[1]
It was the 3rd return to South Africa after ICANN 21 in Cape Town and ICANN 47 in Durban.[2]
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.