Thursday, 4 June 2020 ICANN Community Leadership Digest The ICANN org Policy Development Support function publishes this twice-weekly digest to help ICANN community leaders track requests and follow updates. Table of Contents Prepare for ICANN68 BY TOMORROW: Register for ICANN68 Prep Sessions NEW: ICANN68 Virtual Policy Forum Schedule Now Available REMINDER: Pre-ICANN68 Policy Report and GNSO Policy Briefing ICANN68 Edition Information Sharing NEW: SSR2 Review Team Update REMINDER: Call for Expressions of Interest: Standing Panel for ICANN’s Independent Review Process Public Comment Proposal for Malayalam Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules – Second Public Comment Proceeding Name Collision Analysis Project (NCAP) Study 1: Proposed Final Report ccNSO PDP3: Initial Proposals for Process to Retire ccTLDs NEW: Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Regional Strategic Plan for FY2021-2025 Prepare for ICANN68 BY TOMORROW: Register for ICANN68 Prep Sessions Executive: David Olive, Senior Vice President, Policy Development Support ICANN org released the schedule for ICANN68 Prep Sessions, which features a series of eleven webinars to prepare the community ahead of ICANN68. Register and submit questions here. NEW: ICANN68 Virtual Policy Forum Schedule Now Available From: David Olive, Senior Vice President, Policy Development Support On Monday, the ICANN organization published the schedule for the ICANN68 Virtual Policy Forum to be held from 22-25 June 2020. The ICANN community took the lead in organizing the four-day program. The schedule features plenary sessions exploring Domain Name System (DNS) abuse and malicious registrations, DNS and the Internet of Things, and how to advance policy work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please remember to register for ICANN68. ICANN68 is the fifth Policy Forum and the second virtual ICANN Public Meeting. It is also the first ICANN Public Meeting to be supported entirely by remote ICANN org teams working from their homes around the world. ICANN68 will take place in the UTC+8 time zone of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia—the original host city. ICANN org will soon share more details about language interpretation services for ICANN68. With the goal of ensuring operational security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet, the ICANN community develops policy recommendations through three Supporting Organizations (SOs) and refines them through four Advisory Committees (ACs), all composed of global stakeholders. Policy development at ICANN takes place through open and consultative processes such as teleconferences, Public Comment, and ICANN Public Meetings. The SOs, ACs, Stakeholder Groups, and Constituencies have arranged sessions during ICANN68 to advance priority items while maintaining their regular work schedules. I would like to thank the ICANN community for its continued commitment to collaborative planning for ICANN Public Meetings. REMINDER: Pre-ICANN68 Policy Report and GNSO Policy Briefing ICANN68 Edition Executive: David Olive, Senior Vice President, Policy Development Support The Pre-ICANN68 Policy Report and the GNSO Policy Briefing ICANN68 Edition are now available. These reports provide background information for the ICANN68 Virtual Policy Forum scheduled for 22-25 June 2020. Information Sharing NEW: SSR2 Review Team Update Blog Post by Russ Housely, SSR2 Chair The second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team continues to progress its assessment of how well ICANN is executing its commitment to enhance the operational stability, reliability, resiliency, security, and global interoperability of the Internet's system of unique identifiers. Along with the rest of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our work. While we are making progress in virtual sessions, the inability to meet face-to-face as planned in March and May 2020 has impacted our timeline. We expect to complete our review and submit our final report to the ICANN Board in October 2020. We are currently in the process of considering the Public Comments that we received on our draft report. As you can see from the Public Comment staff report, we received 18 Public Comment submissions, totaling close to 400 individual comments. Our focus in the coming months will be to work toward producing a final report that reflects the constructive feedback that was provided by the community. While we do not expect to accept every comment, we are working diligently to ensure that we consider all of the diverse perspectives offered. Our final report will include a detailed explanation of how we considered the public comments and the rationale for the decisions we reached. We plan to host a webinar near the time that the final report will be published to inform the community of any updates. The SSR2 Review is a community-led review that operates with full transparency. You can follow the review team meetings live and stay informed of its progress by becoming an observer, or feel free to ask any of our team members to provide an update to your constituency. To learn more about the SSR2 Review, visit our workspace here. REMINDER: Call for Expressions of Interest: Standing Panel for ICANN’s Independent Review Process Announcement On 31 March 2020, ICANN opened a call for Expressions of Interest for panelists to serve on the omnibus Standing Panel for ICANN's Independent Review Process (IRP). Candidates for the IRP omnibus Standing Panel should review the Expressions of Interest document before submission. The document includes the following information: Panel Position Description Required or Highly Preferred Skills Required or Highly Preferred Experience Time Commitment Compensation and Selection Expressions of Interest should be submitted to irp-standingpanel-eoi2020@icann.org by 23:59 UTC on Friday, 31 July 2020. Public Comment Proposal for Malayalam Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules – Second Public Comment Proceeding Close Date: Wednesday, 17 June 2020 Name Collision Analysis Project (NCAP) Study 1: Proposed Final Report Close Date: Wednesday, 17 June 2020 ccNSO PDP3: Initial Proposals for Process to Retire ccTLDs Close Date: Friday, 10 July 2020 NEW: Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Regional Strategic Plan for FY2021-2025 Close Date: Tuesday, 14 July 2020 Volume 2, Issue 45 | Archive | Next Issue: Monday, 8 June 2020 ICANN | 12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536 Unsubscribe ccnso-council@icann.org Update Profile | About Constant Contact Sent by david.olive@icann.org in collaboration with Try email marketing for free today!