Dear All,

For those who may be interested, sharing a brief  update on Pre ICANN65 interactive online discussion on 7 June, organised by CCAOI and ISOC Delhi.

The objective of the webinar was for providing community members an overview of the upcoming Policy meeting of ICANN to be held in Marrakech from 24-28 June. Moderated by Amrita Choudhury, Director CCAOI, President, ISOC Delhi,  the session was attended by over 50 people from 10 countries, covering three continents.

Samiran Gupta from ICANN provided an overview of the meeting, agenda and expected policies to be discussed. Aftab Siddqui, Chair, Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) provided an overview of the Number Council. Brajesh Jain, NomCom Member shared about the timelines and expected candidate interviews by NomCom in Marrakech.

This was followed by a discussion of five key hot policy topics which would be discussed  during this meeting.

Pam Little from Ali Baba and GNSO member presented an overview of the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP), highlighting the approach, timelines, priority items in the phase 2 process. Cheryl Langdon Orr, ALAC Liaison to GNSO shared her concern about the lack of proportionate representation of end users and other communities in the process.

Justine Chew, APRALO Individual member provided an overview of the Subsequent Procedure, the process, the work tracks  and the discussions therein. Remarking on the debate of whether there should be another round of gTLD auction or not. Little advised on waiting to see how the community responded to it in the policy development process.

Rahul Gossain, Director,  Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India and GAC Representative updating on the developments of the Dot Amazon case where the ICANN Board has approved the domain name but five Andean Presidents have  opposed  this decision, also highlighted the impact of the case on future Issues

Satish Babu, APRALO Chair,  shared an overview of the evolving ICANN Multistakeholder model, outlining the list of issues, and the ALAC perspective on the key issues

Dr. Ajay Data, Chairman, Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG)  shared  in brief  the current focus and initiatives of the group to make domain names universally accepted.

The presentations of some of the speakers are available here.

How to join a working group, contribute to ICANN community and get updates of the policy development process were the other questions raised by participants.

A post ICANN65 read out was also requested by participants with updates from the technical communities.

Regards,

Amrita