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Welcome to the ICANN77 Policy Forum
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By Tripti Sinha, ICANN Board Chair, and
Sally Costerton, Interim President and CEO
The first ICANN Public Meeting to take place in the U.S. capital coincides with our Washington, D.C., Engagement Center’s 10-year anniversary and its
recent
reopening [r20.rs6.net] at a new location. We look forward to hosting the ICANN community in this improved space at the center of this important hub of government,
business, civil society, and academia.
As the second ICANN Public Meeting of the calendar year, the Policy Forum is dedicated to the ICANN community’s policy-development work, and a major focus of this
meeting will be the effort to launch the next
round [r20.rs6.net] of the New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program.
Whether you are here in person or online, we look forward to seeing you at ICANN77!
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Select ICANN77 sessions will be livestreamed on YouTube as part of ICANN's efforts to increase accessibility. These view-only livestreams provide a low-bandwidth
alternative for participants. All times are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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New gTLD Program: Next Round Update
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This session provides attendees with a recap of the implementation status of the New gTLD Program: Next Round following the ICANN Board’s approval of the Final
Report on the New gTLD Program Subsequent Procedures at ICANN76.
The open session also offers the ICANN community an opportunity to engage with the program implementation team and ask questions related to the combined ICANN Board,
community, and org activities in preparation for the New gTLD Program: Next Round.
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Upstander Training Session
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Upstander Training
seeks to reduce instances of disrespect (which can sometimes lead to harassment) by giving participants the tools they need to disrupt those perpetrating the harassment.
This session is open to all ICANN meeting participants and is designed to enhance and complement existing anti-harassment efforts across the community. The session
will be led by a trainer from the nonprofit organization Right to Be, an industry leader in equity and anti-harassment.
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Tech Day brings together ICANN’s technical community and is open to anyone interested in technical or security-related topics. It continues to grow and has been
part of ICANN Public Meetings since 2006. Tech Day provides a forum to discuss technical topics related to registry, Domain Name System work, and security.
Tech Day will include presentations on Malware Obfuscation, an RDAP command-line client, and an ICANN study focusing on SLD in the Alexa top 10,000 domains.
View
the agenda here [r20.rs6.net].
Additionally, Tech Day will offer live interpretation in Arabic, English, and Spanish.
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GNSO: IDN EPDP Working Session
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The IDN EPDP team is tasked to determine the approach for a consistent definition of all gTLDs, and to develop policy recommendations that will eventually allow
for the introduction of variant gTLDs at the top-level. The team published its Phase 1 Initial Report for
Public
Comment [r20.rs6.net], which is scheduled to close on 19 June 2023.
At ICANN77, the team will hold a working session each day, with four sessions total, all of which will focus on Phase 2 charter question deliberation related to
variant management at the second-level. The discussion topics are expected to include the behavior of variant labels throughout the domain name life cycle, as well as the treatment of registration data of variant domains. Interested community members are welcome
to observe the sessions.
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ICANN77 Session to Focus on Digital Inclusion Through
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By Joe Catapano, Stakeholder Engagement Senior Manager
The addition of top-level domains (TLDs) to the DNS root zone, many of which are Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), brought many benefits to Internet users
around the world. However, more still needs to be done to ensure these benefits are fully realized, including broader adoption of Universal Acceptance (UA). ICANN’s North American Stakeholder Engagement team is hosting an important discussion on this topic
at ICANN77 featuring experts from UNESCO and the domain name industry.
Today, not all TLDs are treated equally. A technology as simple as an email address may not work if it belongs to a TLD with more than six characters or is written
in scripts that reflect the diversity of languages used globally. As ICANN prepares for the next round of TLDs it is crucial that these issues are addressed and overcome. Our mission is one world, one Internet.
The
session
[r20.rs6.net] is scheduled on 13 June 2023 at 17:45 UTC at the Marriott Marquis; remote participation will be available.
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Sabrina Wilkinson is a Policy Program Manager at the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). This member-based not-for-profit organization is best known
for managing the .ca top-level domain on behalf of all Canadians. She has attended three ICANN Public Meetings. Wilkinson was introduced to the ICANN community as a NextGen@ICANN participant at ICANN63 in Barcelona, Spain, in 2018. Wilkinson has since participated
in ICANN67 virtually as a NextGen@ICANN ambassador in 2020, and at ICANN76 in Cancún, Mexico, as a representative of CIRA in 2023.
Wilkinson received a Ph.D. in research from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she investigated the politics of Canadian digital policy development. She completed
research fellowships at the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Law, Technology, and Society and McGill’s Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy.
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“The Fellowship Program is an eye-opener for me because I realize that there is so much to do and so many things that can be done. Only together can we bring
positive change to our communities.”
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A professional journalist based in Nepal, Shreedeep Rayamajhi is a current member of the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Steering
Group and a founding member of the Internet Society’s Nepal chapter.
Representing Internet end users, Rayamajhi also served as the chair of the Asia, Australasian, and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization’s Policy Forum.
He is passionate about communication and social media engagement and led the At-Large Social Media Working Group from ICANN67 to ICANN70. He was the General Secretary of the Asia Pacific School of Internet Governance (2019–2021).
Rayamajhi acknowledges that it is not easy to bring all stakeholders in Internet governance together. However, he believes it is essential to give marginalized
communities not just a voice, but a seat at the table.
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“The Internet will serve us as a life-transforming medium if we all contribute to safeguarding it. So, get involved.”
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Lily Edinam Botsyoe, a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati, researches the deployment of technology in service of public needs. Originally from Ghana,
she is an ardent contributor to technology communities and speaks widely on Internet-related issues with a particular focus on women and youth inclusion, accessibility, cybersecurity, privacy, and digital sustainability.
Botsyoe’s interest in ICANN stems from her quest to learn about the distribution of Internet number resources as it relates to technology policy. As a believer
in the power of technology to accelerate development, her work focuses on human-centered approaches to building technology. In the Internet governance space, Botsyoe serves in various steering committees in West Africa and was an American Registry for Internet
Numbers fellow.
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Review the Participation Guides
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500.1 Policy Development Fundamentals: How Policy Works at ICANN
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Policy Development Fundamentals: How Policy Works at ICANN is aimed at those
new to policy work at ICANN and will help learners to articulate the purpose and role of ICANN’s Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees, explain how the ICANN Board and ICANN organization relate to policy work at ICANN, and understand how to get
involved in ICANN policy work.
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ICANN's Office of the Chief Technology Officer creates and publishes research papers and technical briefings for ICANN's diverse technical community.
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ICANN's Government Engagement publications summarize the discussions taking place within governments and intergovernmental organizations.
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SUBSCRIBE TO ICANN UPDATES
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