Dear All,

I am forwarding you an email on behalf of Barbara Povse (.si) regarding the planning for the upcoming virtual ICANN70 Community Forum.  Highlights:

• A sneak preview of the ICANN70 ccNSO Members Meeting Sessions
• A request for input regarding the topic proposals for ICANN70 plenary sessions. (deadline: 20 January)

Thank you

Best regards,

Joke Braeken

ccNSO Policy Advisor

joke.braeken@icann.org

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Dear All,

I am writing you today, to let you know that the ccNSO Meetings Programme Committee started planning for the upcoming virtual ICANN70 Community Forum. Here is a sneak preview of the ccNSO Members Meeting sessions you may expect (subject to changes):

Pre-ICANN70

• 2 editions of the ccTLD community webinar, targeted at newcomers and those that would like to learn more about the work of the ccNSO
• 2 editions of the popular ccTLD News Session
  Mark your calendars for Tuesday, 9 March 2021 (19 UTC) and Thursday, 11 March 2021 (11 UTC). The MPC still seeks presenters: the call for presentation proposals closes 10 February 2021 (23:59 UTC). Read more here: https://ccnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12jan21-en.htm

ICANN70 ccNSO Members Meeting

• Governance session, as a follow-up from the ICANN69 session
• ccTLDs and the future. ccTLD stakeholders expect resiliency, no matter what. ccTLD managers do the same things, but differently.  Do ccTLDs need to adapt to the future? If so, how do we make our ccTLDs future-proof?  Join us for testimonials from ccTLD Managers across the globe, followed by an interactive discussion.
• And finally, join us at ICANN70 for the Question and Answer Session with ccTLD-related ICANN Board members

We will post additional information on the ccNSO ICANN meetings Workspace as soon as it becomes available https://community.icann.org/display/ccnsowkspc/ICANN+Meetings.

Moreover, I seek your feedback regarding potential ICANN70 plenary sessions. Together with Katrina (ccNSO Council Chair) and Alejandra (former MPC Chair, ccNSO Council Vice-Chair), we attended a closed kick-off meeting on 14 January, where the SO/AC leaders started the high-level planning for ICANN70. During that kick-off session, some potential topics of higher interest to the broader ICANN community were suggested as potential plenary (i.e. unconflicted) or cross-community dialogue sessions:

Potential topics for Plenary Sessions

• Registry Voluntary Commitments: Practicality and Enforceability (proposal from At Large)
• Applicant Support: What does success look like? (from At Large)
• Regulatory updates – specifically, the recent actions in the EU (the proposed NIS2 directive, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act and the Data Governance Act) and the US (Congressional direction to the NTIA regarding WHOIS access) (from the Business Constituency)

Potential topics for Cross Community Discussion

• New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP (proposal from At Large)
• A session involving NextGen primarily, but also former Fellowship and ATLAS participants who currently work in constituencies across ICANN, to discuss the future of the Internet from an ICANN policy perspective (from At Large)

The current version of the draft block schedule by ICANN org foresees 2 slots for plenary sessions. Should you have suggestions for further topics of higher interest or input regarding the aforementioned topics, to be organized as a plenary sessions at ICANN70, your input is much appreciated. In case of new topics, kindly send me and joke.braeken@icann.org your suggestions, including:

• a proposed session title,  
• a short description of the session,
• the rationale,
• desired outcome,
• session format and 
• how other SO/ACs are involved.

The deadline for this is  20 January 2021 (end of day). Thank you and best regards,

Barbara Povše (MPC Chair)