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Thursday, 29 May 2025

ICANN Community Digest

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Registry Service Provider Evaluation Program [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net]

The ICANN organization Policy Development Support function publishes this twice-weekly digest

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Table of Contents

ICANN83

· ICANN83 Schedule

· Zoom Backgrounds

· ICANN83 Policy Outlook Report

· GNSO Policy Briefing

· NEW: ICANN83 Press Release

· NEW: PRSP Pre-ICANN83 Briefing

· NextGen@ICANN83 Presentation Sessions

Information Sharing

· NEW: Update on New gTLD Program: Next Round, including newly published pre-meeting status update report

· NEW: The ICANN Policy Development Accelerator: A Participant’s Perspective

· NEW: Chair’s Blog: Takeaways From the May Board Workshop

· ICANN Materials Provide Prospective New gTLD Applicants Clarity on Key Topics

· Next Round Champions Toolkit Available in the Six ICANN Languages

· ICANNWiki Seeking Volunteers

🚨 Action Items 🚨

· Requesting Your Input: Office of the Ombuds Baseline Survey Now Open

· ICANN Call for Nominations: Universal Acceptance Expert Working Group

· Call for ASP Mentors

Webinars

· MONDAY: Webinar - DNS Training Session for ISPs: From WHOIS to RDAP

· TUESDAY: ICANN Webinar Will Introduce Complete Draft Applicant Guidebook

Public Comment

· MONDAY: Customer Standing Committee (CSC) changes Process for Amending the IANA SLAs

· ONE WEEK FROM TOMORROW: Africa Regional Plan for Fiscal Years 2026-2030

· Transfer Policy Review Working Group Final Report for ICANN Board Consideration

· Updated ICANN Community Participant Code of Conduct Concerning SOIs

· PSR on Expired Domain Deletion and Expired Registration Recover Policies

Events

· These events occur in May and June 2025.

ICANN83

ICANN83 Schedule [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net]

ICANN83 Policy Outlook Report [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net]

Zoom Backgrounds [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net]

ICANN83 Press Release [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net]

GNSO Policy Briefing [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net]

PRSP Pre-ICANN83 Briefing [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net]

NextGen@ICANN83 Presentation Sessions

There will be two sessions at ICANN83: Tuesday, 10 June from 10:45-12:15 and Wednesday, 11 June from 10:45-12:15.

On 10 June, join us for the following presentations:

1. ICANN vs. the EU’s DSA: 1–0? ICANN’s INFERMAL Project and the Proactive Detection of Malicious Domain Registrations [Presented by Iris Tuijaerts]

2. Governance Processes at Internet Exchange Points [Presented by Sophia Longwe]

3. Accountability in Internet Governance [Presented by Mira Gillis]

4. Misconfigured CNAMEs, Subdomain Takeover, and Implications for the Economics of PKI [Presented by Movitz Sunar]

5. DNS and Zero Trust Architecture: the role of ICANN [Presented by Massioudath Bankole]

6. Securing the Root: A Control Plane Approach for TLD Stability [Presented by Suncica Rosic]

On 11 June, join us for the following presentations:

1. Network Shutdowns and Internet Governance [Presented by Ankita Rathi]

2. AI diversity or just more of Digital Colonialism? - Indigenous Data and AI Training [Presented by José Renato Laranjeira de Pereira]

3. The Effectiveness of State-Imposed Internet Shutdowns as a Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Africa [Presented by Aaron Promise Mbah]

4. Digital Sovereignty in Latin America [Presented by Laila Lorenzon]

5. Bridging the Digital Divide: Empowering Youth Through Inclusive Internet Governance [Presented by Barnabas Peter]

6. The New Digital Divide: When AI Consumes the Infrastructure Before People Do [Presented by Ayoub Ghamas]

Information Sharing

NEW: Update on New gTLD Program: Next Round, including newly published pre-meeting status update report

The New gTLD Program: Next Round leadership team has published a new blog [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net] providing a program update heading into ICANN83. The team has also published the ICANN83 Status Update report [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net].

NEW: The ICANN Policy Development Accelerator: A Participant’s Perspective

Read more about participating in the ICANN Policy Development Accelerator here [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net].

NEW: Chair’s Blog: Takeaways From the May Board Workshop

Please find key takeaways from the May Board Workshop here [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net].

ICANN Materials Provide Prospective New gTLD Applicants Clarity on Key Topics

ICANN org is developing supplemental, complementary materials to aid prospective generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants in understanding the Next Round application requirements, and how to navigate the application and evaluation processes.

Blog [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net].

Key Topic Overview Documents. [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net]

Next Round Champions Toolkit Available in the Six ICANN Languages

ICANN is working with the community to identify potential Applicant Support Program (ASP) applicants – especially in regions that are currently under-represented in ICANN. If you are interested in helping to raise awareness among your own contacts or communities, please use the materials in the Next Round Champions Toolkit [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net].

To stay up to date on the New gTLD Program: Next Round and ASP, join the mailing list: nextroundinfo@icann.org. ASP leads, targets, and ideas can be sent to engagement.newgTLDprogram@icann.org.

ICANNWiki Seeking Volunteers

ICANNWiki is seeking volunteers to assist with creating and editing articles and content for the site. Do you want to help? Getting started is as simple as requesting an account [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net]. Then, make sure to read the short content guide [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net] to get a feel for what belongs in the wiki. Also, feel free to take a look at some data source suggestions [danh45uab.cc.rs6.net] on where to find reliable data. Happy editing!

Action Items

Requesting Your Input: Office of the Ombuds Baseline Survey Now Open

The purpose of the survey is to get an understanding of how well-known and trusted the Office is within the ICANN community.