[APAC-Discuss] Brief Update on the CCAOI - ISOC Delhi Pre ICANN65 Discussion

[Amrita]

Dear All, 

 

For those who may be interested, sharing a brief  update on Pre ICANN65
interactive online discussion on 7 June, organised by CCAOI and ISOC Delhi.

 

The objective of the webinar was for providing community members an overview
of the upcoming Policy meeting of ICANN to be held in Marrakech from 24-28
June. Moderated by Amrita Choudhury, Director CCAOI, President, ISOC Delhi,
the session was attended by over 50 people from 10 countries, covering three
continents.

 

Samiran Gupta from ICANN provided an overview of the meeting, agenda
<https://65.schedule.icann.org/meetings?classes%5b%5d=Groups%3A%3AMeetings%3
A%3AMeeting>  and expected policies to be discussed. Aftab Siddqui, Chair,
Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC
<https://aso.icann.org/> ) provided an overview of the Number Council.
Brajesh Jain, NomCom Member shared about the timelines and expected
candidate interviews by NomCom <https://www.icann.org/nomcom2019>  in
Marrakech.

 

This was followed by a discussion of five key hot policy topics which would
be discussed  during this meeting. 

 

Pam Little from Ali Baba and GNSO <https://gnso.icann.org/en>  member
presented an overview of the  Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP),
highlighting the approach, timelines, priority items in the phase 2 process.
Cheryl Langdon Orr, ALAC <https://atlarge.icann.org/>  Liaison to GNSO
shared her concern about the lack of proportionate representation of end
users and other communities in the process.

 

Justine Chew, APRALO Individual member provided an overview of the
Subsequent Procedure, the process, the work tracks  and the discussions
therein. Remarking on the debate of whether there should be another round of
gTLD auction or not. Little advised on waiting to see how the community
responded to it in the policy development process.

 

Rahul Gossain, Director,  Ministry of Electronics and IT
<https://meity.gov.in/> , Government of India and GAC
<https://gac.icann.org/>  Representative updating on the developments of the
Dot Amazon case where the ICANN Board has approved the domain name but five
Andean Presidents have  opposed  this decision, also highlighted the impact
of the case on future Issues 

 

Satish Babu, APRALO <https://atlarge.icann.org/ralos/apralo>  Chair,  shared
an overview of the evolving ICANN Multistakeholder model, outlining the list
of issues, and the ALAC perspective on the key issues 

 

Dr. Ajay Data, Chairman,  Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG
<https://uasg.tech/> )  shared  in brief  the current focus and initiatives
of the group to make domain names universally accepted.

 

The presentations of some of the speakers are available here
<https://app.box.com/s/evfp4q9867dx1d4mskyxirjxs1me0l4a> .

 

How to join a working group, contribute to ICANN community and get updates
of the policy development process were the other questions raised by
participants. 

 

A post ICANN65 read out was also requested by participants with updates from
the technical communities.

 

Regards,

 

 

Amrita

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