ICANN75 Newsletter
20 September 2022
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2022 Dr. Tarek Kamel Award for Capacity Building |
ICANN Board Chair Maarten Botterman announced the Board’s selection during the ICANN75 Welcome Ceremony on Monday, 19 September. The Board recognizes Kleinwächter’s significant efforts in capacity building on a local, regional, and global scale. Particularly notable is Kleinwächter’s pioneering work for the local and regional Internet Governance School concept.
Kleinwächter participated in the award ceremony remotely and thanked the ICANN Board for the recognition. Read the announcement for more details on Kleinwächter’s contributions.
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Malaysia’s Communications and Multimedia Ministry Welcomes ICANN75 Participants |
The Secretary-General of Malaysia’s Communications and Multimedia Ministry, YBhg. Dato’ Sri Haji Mohammad Mentek, shared words of welcome to those attending ICANN75 in Kuala Lumpur:
“It is an honor for us to welcome the ICANN community to Kuala Lumpur, and it is an acknowledgment of the huge role and contribution this community plays towards ensuring a secure and stable Internet environment for everyone. The bottom-up, consensus-driven, multistakeholder model and discourse among the ICANN community has been pivotal in fostering development and ensuring smooth coordination of the Internet addressing ecosystem globally.”
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Select ICANN75 sessions will be livestreamed on YouTube as part of ICANN's efforts to increase accessibility. These view-only livestreams provide a low-bandwidth alternative for participants.
21 September, 02:30–4:00 UTC
22 September, 01:00–02:00 UTC
22 September, 02:30–04:00 UTC
22 September, 05:15–06:30 UTC
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Driving Local Change for UA Adoption Globally |
As current tools and services are increasingly able to support Universal Acceptance (UA), it’s critical that the deployment of technology at the local level is UA ready in order to support global adoption. Join the Universal Acceptance Steering Group for a session led by UA Local Initiatives and UA Ambassadors, who will discuss the current challenges in deploying UA ready technology locally the best way forward. Don’t miss this opportunity to help build a more inclusive and multilingual Internet!
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APAC Space is a session where the Asia Pacific (APAC) community can raise issues, share views, and coordinate activities. This will be the first opportunity for community members from the APAC region to meet face-to-face since ICANN66 in Montréal.
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Joint Session: ccNSO and GAC |
During this joint session between the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), the ccNSO DNS Abuse Standing Committee (DASC) and two ccNSO policy development process (ccPDP) working groups will provide updates on their progress.
The DASC was created as a dedicated forum for ccTLD managers to discuss DNS abuse and to share information, insights, and practices.
The goal of the ccPDP3-RM working group is to recommend a policy for a review mechanism with respect to decisions pertaining to the delegation, transfer, revocation and retirement of the delegated country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) assigned to countries and territories listed in the ISO 3166-1.
The ccPDP4 working group aims to define the criteria, process, and procedure for (de)selecting Internationalized Domain Name ccTLDS.
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The Asian, Australasian, and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization (APRALO) welcomes all At-Large members, the ICANN community, ICANN75 fellows and NextGen participants, and university students to its outreach session. The first part of this session will cover APRALO operational issues, while the second part will be an opportunity for all participants to interact on topics of interest to the region.
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Evolving the Governance of the Root Server System |
The ICANN Board convened the Root Server System (RSS) Governance Working Group (GWG) to develop a final model of RSS governance and root server operator (RSO) accountability based on RSSAC037. To inform the development of the final model, the Root Server System Advisory Committee published success criteria for RSS governance. Since ICANN74, the GWG has discussed three fundamental topics: defining capture of the RSS, determining if a requirement exists for portability of RSS governance, and identifying RSO yields and RSS gains. The GWG expects to finish these discussions during ICANN75 and determine what model of RSS governance best meets the success criteria.
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ICANN75 in Photos: The Malaysian Drum Symphony performs at the ICANN75 Welcome Ceremony on Monday, 19 September 2022.
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GNSO Registration Data Accuracy Scoping Team |
This session took place on Saturday, 17 September. If you missed it or want to review, visit the schedule page for the available session materials and recording.
Agenda
The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council created a Registration Data Accuracy Scoping Team, which has been tasked to consider a number of accuracy-related issues, such as current enforcement and reporting, accuracy measurement, and effectiveness. These considerations are expected to help inform the scoping team's deliberations and the development of recommendations to the GNSO Council on whether any changes are needed to improve generic top-level domain registration data accuracy, and if so, how and by whom these changes should be developed. (For example, if changes to existing contractual requirements are recommended, a PDP or contractual negotiations may be necessary to effect a change.) Most recently, the Scoping Team provided the GNSO Council with its write-up for assignments No. 1 (current enforcement and reporting) and No. 2 (measurement of accuracy).
Session Overview
During this session, the Scoping Team provided attendees with an overview of the write-up and its recommendations. In addition, the team started informal deliberations on the details of a Registrar Survey that is intended to allow registrars to report on the status of the accuracy of domains under management. The results of this survey are expected to help inform the Scoping Team's work on assignments No. 3 (effectiveness) and No. 4 (impact and improvements).
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ICANN75 HEALTH AND SAFETY |
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Update on Work Stream 2 Implementation |
By Giovanni Seppia, VP, Implementation Operations
Work Stream 2 (WS2) implementation continues to be a priority for the ICANN organization (org) in Fiscal Year 23.
Work continues on the 95 accountability and transparency-related recommendations directed at ICANN org, the Board, and the community. The ICANN org continues to support community groups' implementation work, as appropriate, and discussions of the WS2 Community Coordination Group (WS2 CCG), as it coordinates work on a set of recommendations that warrant a uniform community-wide approach.
At the end of the second calendar quarter of 2022, 15 recommendations directed at ICANN org were complete (up from 13 in Q1 2022), while implementation was in progress for 42 (up from 39 in Q1 2022).
Read my blog for more WS2 implementation highlights from Q2 2022.
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Public Comment: Registration Data Policy Implementation Plan |
ICANN org has opened a Public Comment proceeding on a proposed Registration Data Policy implementation plan. This plan is the result of three years of work and collaboration, including between ICANN org's Policy Implementation Project Team and the community's Implementation Review Team. The implementation plan includes a draft policy and proposed updates to 20 existing consensus policies and procedures affected by the community's recommendations concerning generic top-level domain registration data. Read this blog for more information on the plan.
If you would like to engage further on this topic, please join this Generic Names Supporting Organization session at ICANN75 tomorrow at 09:00 MYT (01:00 UTC).
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LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN FOCUS |
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Join the ICANN75 LAC Space Session Today! |
Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Space is a recurring session where stakeholders from the region can discuss relevant topics and strengthen the regional participation in ICANN processes. This session has become a signature activity for the LAC community at ICANN meetings. The first LAC Space was held during ICANN48 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
For the ICANN75 session, the LAC Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) team put out an open call for topic suggestions from the community to build the agenda collaboratively.
Register now for the LAC Space session at ICANN75, taking place today at 10:30 MYT (02:30 UTC). Spanish and Portuguese interpretation services will be available.
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María Gabriela Mattausch
Argentina
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María Gabriela Mattausch has been a Governmental Advisory Committee representative for over a year. As an Argentine diplomat, she served in Brazil and Egypt, and she is currently based in Buenos Aires.
Long interested in issues of information and communications technology (ICT) and development, and ways to connect the two, Mattausch is part of several technical multilateral organizations. This includes the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
She considers the key to increasing ICANN community stakeholder participation in developing countries to be bridging the digital gap while respecting human rights.
Mattausch holds a degree in political science from Argentina, a master’s degree in development management from the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy in Germany, and a certificate in comparative governance and public administration from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
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“The ICANN Fellowship is a great opportunity to meet a lot of nice and wonderful people from different parts of the world who are united by their goal and ambition to ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. The ICANN fellowship program is an inspiring, life-changing, and eye-opening experience.”
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Nabeel Yasin Amin is an ICT professional with more than 10 years experience as a team leader at TeleYemen, Yemen’s main Internet gateway. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science, is CompTIA certified A+, and is a certified Microsoft trainer and systems engineer. Amin is currently establishing his own not-for-profit training and consulting center, which will focus on ICT, Internet governance, and digital literacy, with an aim of reducing the digital divide and empowering his community with digital technologies.
Having attended the virtual ICANN73, he is excited to be able to attend ICANN75 in person as an ICANN fellow and has applied to join the Asian, Australasian, and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization and the Generic Names Supporting Organization’s Noncommercial Stakeholder Group.
Amin’s goal is to raise awareness about ICANN and its role in the Internet ecosystem in his community, country, and the Arab region. He plans to achieve this through conducting training, awareness, and capacity-building sessions and workshops about ICANN and Internet governance.
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WELCOME NEXTGEN@ICANN PARTICIPANTS |
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“I hope to meet other researchers and collaborate with them in the future.” |
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Romia Lasmin Nafisa
Bangladesh
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Romia Lasmin Nafisa currently works as a database administrator at Bangladesh’s Prime Bank and is pursuing a master’s degree in data science at Jahangirnagar University. Based on her professional experience and academic studies, she is convinced that Internet data security is the most important topic for any computer science engineer. Consequently, she is deeply interested in improving Internet security.
Nafisa first heard about the NextGen@ICANN program from a former ICANN fellow at an international conference in 2019 in Thailand. Since then, she has connected with ICANN fellows in Bangladesh and decided to apply for the program. ICANN75 is her first ICANN meeting.
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