Monday, 8 July 2019

ICANN Community Leadership Digest

This twice-weekly digest helps ICANN community leaders track requests and provides updates from ICANN org.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Information Sharing

· NEW: Update and Information on IRP IOT Re-Composition

· REMINDER: Planning Assumptions for Subsequent Procedures for New gTLDs

Public Comment

· Process Proposal for Streamlining Organizational Reviews

· Study on Technical Use of Root Zone Label Generation Rules

· Fundamental Bylaws Amendment Proposal -- IANA Naming Function Review

· Revisions to the ICANN Bylaws re SSAC and RSSAC Leadership

· Proposed IANA SLAs for Publishing LGRs/IDN Tables

· Draft Final Report of the Second Country Code Names Supporting Organization Review

· Draft Financial Assumptions & Projections and Operating Initiatives for the Development of the Fiscal Years 2021-2025 Operating & Financial Plan

· Evolving the Governance of the Root Server System

Information Sharing

NEW: Update and Information on IRP IOT Re-Composition

Executive: John Jeffrey, General Counsel

FOR: All SO/AC Chairs

INFORMATION SHARING

As the ICANN Board committee with oversight responsibility of ICANN's accountability mechanisms, the Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee (BAMC) considers the work of the [Independent Review Process (IRP)] Implementation Oversight Team (IOT) to be paramount to ICANN's accountability...we seek your help in finding additional volunteers within the community that meet the qualifications identified in the attached letter, outlining skills and experience requirements, to join the IOT and help to conclude its work in a timely fashion. Read more [r20.rs6.net].

REMINDER: Planning Assumptions for Subsequent Procedures for New gTLDs

Executive: Cyrus Namazi, Senior Vice President, Global Domains Division

FOR: All Community Leaders

INFORMATION SHARING

In December 2015, the GNSO initiated a Policy Development Process (PDP) to determine if changes to existing policy recommendations are needed before the next round of gTLDs. The PDP Working Group expects to publish its final report with its recommendations by December 2019. These recommendations may lead to procedural changes for subsequent rounds of gTLD applications, which ICANN org must implement and manage. In the course of our preparatory work toward the planning and implementation of the new policy, ICANN org has compiled a number of fundamental operationally focused assumptions to help with the preliminary planning and operational readiness of the organization. These assumptions have been shared with the ICANN Board, and now ICANN org would like to share them with relevant parts of the community.