Thursday, 09 November 2023

ICANN Community Digest

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Table of Contents

Information Sharing

NEW: ICANN Board Leaves FY21-25 Strategic Plan Unchanged.
NEW: ICANN Community Excellence Award Selection Panel
NEW: Formation of a Continuous Improvement Program Community Coordination Group (CIP-CCG)
NEW: Retirement of Non-Policy Recommendations
NEW: Streamlining Resource Requests from the ICANN Community

Action Items

🔥 ACTION ITEM: Participate in the next Strategic Plan Environmental Scan Webinar
🔥 ACTION ITEM: NextGen Mentor Program Nominations Deadline Extended
🔥 ACTION ITEM: NextGen@ICANN Applications for ICANNN79 Extended to Early November 2023
🔥 ACTION ITEM: NextGen@ICANN Mentor Program Nominations
🔥 ACTION ITEM: Call for Nominations: ICANN Academy 2024 Leadership Program

Public Comment

Pilot Holistic Review Revised Draft Terms of Reference
Draft Report of the Root Zone DNSSEC Algorithm Rollover Study

Information Sharing

NEW: ICANN Board Leaves FY21-25 Strategic Plan Unchanged

Designed to shape ICANN's priorities, the Five-Year Strategic Plan establishes a vision and a set of objectives and goals in service of ICANN's mission. Every year, new trends or shifts in existing trends have the potential to impact our plans. Acting on a recommendation from the ICANN Board's Strategic Planning Committee, the Board has resolved to keep the Strategic Plan for fiscal years (FY) 2021–2025 in force and unchanged at this time. The strategic objectives and goals from the Strategic Plan remain, while activities and projects will be updated in the Draft FY25 Operating Plans. You can read the full resolution here.

NEW: ICANN Community Excellence Award Selection Panel

ICANN Supporting Organization and Advisory Committee Leaderships are invited to appoint up to two individuals from their communities to comprise the 2024 ICANN Community Excellence Award Selection Panel by Monday, 11 December 2023.

2024 ICANN Community Excellence Award will be presented at ICANN79 in San Juan. A nomination period will be open from 13 November 2023 through 8 January 2024. ICANN is convening a community selection panel that will review the nominations and select the award recipient(s).

It would be ideal for panelists to serve a maximum of two consecutive terms on the selection panel to ensure diversity and variety of input and equal opportunity among community members to take part in this recognition effort.

For more information about the ICANN Community Excellence Award please see Community Excellence Award wiki space: https://community.icann.org/x/YyOAAw

NEW: Formation of a Continuous Improvement Program Community Coordination Group (CIP-CCG)

ICANN org reached out to SO/AC Chairs and sent them a full letter and a draft CIP-CCG terms of reference to propose the formation of a CIP-CCG to convene in December 2023. The goal is to develop a framework for implementation of ATRT3 Recommendation 3.6. The feedback from SO/AC Chairs is expected by 30 November.

NEW: Retirement of Non-Policy Recommendations

ICANN org shared a document named "Draft Process to Retire Non-Policy Recommendations" with SO/AC Chairs and expects their feedback by 30 November. The process pertains exclusively to non-policy recommendations that emerge from Reviews and Cross-Community Working Groups, aligning with the objective of the implementation of ATRT3 Recommendation 5.

NEW: Streamlining Resource Requests from the ICANN Community

ICANN org will end the ABR process beginning with the FY2025 OP&B process. The annual OP&B process is better understood, and several ICANN community groups already align their operations and planning work to it. Streamlining resource requests from the ICANN community into a single process is expected to result in more efficiencies.