Register Now: Pre-ICANN60 Policy Open House<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2017-10-03-en> – 19 October 2017 The Policy Development Support Team is pleased to announce two sessions for an upcoming webinar: Pre-ICANN60 Policy Open House Thursday, 19 October 2017 10:00 and 19:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) The webinar will run in English and will be conducted in Adobe Connect along with a dial-in conference bridge for audio. Recordings of the sessions will be made available here<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/presentations-2012-08-27-en>. Please register via this form<https://goo.gl/vZw8kM> by 17 October 2017! In this interactive open house, the focus of each 60-minute session is an active question and answer session with the Policy Development Support Team. To ensure that your questions about policy activities are addressed during the session, the Policy Team invites you to submit your questions through the registration form<https://goo.gl/forms/dVbmhQOT8sakSsmg2> or email them to policyinfo@icann.org<mailto:policyinfo@icann.org>. To assist with your preparation for this webinar and for ICANN60, the "Pre-ICANN60 Policy Report" and "Generic Names Supporting Organization Policy Briefing: ICANN60 Edition" will be published by 12 October 2017. We encourage you to download and review these materials beforehand, as they will provide you with helpful background on policy activities and topics that the Policy Development Support Team will discuss during the open house, such as: · Some cross-community discussions that will take place at ICANN60: · New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Subsequent Procedures, and the new cross-community Work Track 5 on geographical names · General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ICANN · Jurisdiction · New gTLD Auction Proceeds · Policy development processes underway in the Country Code Names Supporting Organization(ccNSO) and the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO): · Retirement of Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) · Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs (GNSO) · Next-Generation Registration Directory Service to Replace WHOIS (GNSO) · International Governmental Organizations (IGO) and International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGO) Access to Curative Rights Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (GNSO) · IGO and Red Cross protections in the Domain Name System (GNSO) · Reviews, workshops, and special events at ICANN60: · Top-Level Domain Operations (TLD-OPS) workshop · ccNSO meeting strategy review · Review of the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) · Review of the At-Large community · Charter review for the Customer Standing Committee (CSC) for the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) naming function · Asian, Australasian, and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization (APRALO) General Assembly · Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) leadership transition · Workshops on Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) · Other topics of note: · GAC discussion on the .amazon Independent Review Process · RSSAC028: Technical Analysis of the Naming Scheme Used for Individual Root Servers · Current Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) work parties and root server system evolution The Policy Development Support Team looks forward to helping the ICANN community prepare for ICANN60! Please register via this form<https://goo.gl/vZw8kM> by 17 October 2017! About ICANN ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address – a name or a number – into your computer or other device. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over