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1. Roll Call - Staff (2 mins)
2. Welcome and Aim of the Meeting - Maureen Hilyard (5min)
   1. REMINDER to register for ICANN68 - Staff will send out an email today
3. Review of Action Items from last call on 2 June 2020 - (3min)
4. Scheduling At-Large ICANN68 Prep Sessions - Maureen Hilyard / Gisella (2min)
   1. ICANN Prep Webinars: 8-22 June 2020. Announcement here: https://meetings.icann.org/en/remote68-prep-week
   3. Registration reminder will be sent out today
   At-Large PREP webinars:Thursday 4 June at 16:00 UTC: ICANN68 At-Large Prep Webinar
   
   1. DNS Abuse: re-run with Jonathan and Drew - in progress - Wednesday 10 June at 13:00 UTC in English only
   2. UA by Satish 
5. Main At-Large Sessions identified - Maureen Hilyard/All (30min)
   

   1. At-Large Plenaries - Dates/Times, Titles, Leads and Description

      Date/Time

      Title

      Lead

      Description

      Date/Time

      Title

      Lead

      Description

      Monday, 22 June

      02:00-03:30 UTC (10:00-11:30 KL)

      At-Large Policy Session: DNS Abuse: COVID-19 and End-user IssuesJoanna KuleszaThis session seeks to address concerns of individual users worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, disinformation, public health and surveillance. It aims to answer questions on how to best protect end user interest in time of the pandemic, with due regard to cases of advanced data collection, including through online and mobile service providers as well as protect end users from online disinformation, prying on increased health concerns around the globe. Whether unique offers of COVID-19 vaccines available online or custom designed apps used for tracing those who have been exposed to the virus, the pandemic has shed a new light on the challenges online communications bring to protecting end user interests online. We would like to use this opportunity to welcome opinions from among the ICANN community on whether we’re facing a changed paradigm on effective end user protection online. What are the limits of online service providers rights and obligations when it comes to sharing end user information with governments and private actors? Where does disinformation end and advertising begin? Who should make that assessment? What is reliable health information and what is misleading DNS Abuse?

      Monday, 22 June

      07:00-08:30 UTC

      (15:00-16:30 KL)

      PICS and PICDRP: How to get them right?Holly RaicheThe topic of Public Interest Commitments and the PIC Dispute Resolution Process have come up again and again since their inception. prior to the 2012 round. Some argue that they are not well enforced by ICANN Contract Compliance and that the DRP process is rigged against a complainant. Others argue they were a bad idea from the start because they could potentially curtail registrant rights. There is nearly universal agreement that change is necessary but what should that change look like? In this session we'll start that discussion by involving panelists from the IP community, the End user Community, Civil Society and ICANN Compliance.

      Tuesday, 23 June

      07:00-08:30 UTC

      (15:00-16:30 KL)

      At-Large Policy Session: New gTLD Applicants: Expanding the CircleTBDMost of the 2012 applications for new strings came from a specific type of organization, with substantial resources, more often than not, in the developed world. Communities rarely succeeded in their efforts. How do we broaden the profile of applicants to be more incliusive of communities and applicants needing support. What do the current proposals from SubProc look like? What more could we do?

      Wednesday, 24 June

      02:00-3:30 UTC

      10:00-11:30 KL)

      At-Large Policy Session: DNS Abuse: Setting an Acceptable ThresholdJonathan ZuckThe At-Large has made it its mission to combat DNS Abuse and has started a number of conversations on that topic. Many registrars and registries are wary of new specific contract provisions and believe the environment to be too fluid to manage via the contract. At the same time, it's become clear that ICANN Contract Compliance lacks tools to combat systemic abuse when it identifies it. One solution would be to simply negotiate a "threshold" of abuse, described as a percentage of second level registrations being used for DNS Abuse. If that percentage goes over the the agreed upon threshold, the contracted party is in breach and ICANN Contract Compliance can begin to take action. With this model contracted parties would be free to use whatever tools they deemed necessary to keep their percentage of abuse below the threshold. Let's discuss!

      Thursday, 25 June

      00:30-02:00 UTC

      (10:30-12:00 KL)

      At-Large Internal: Aligning UA and IDNs with the Multilingual Internet: End-user perspectives

      Satish Babu

      For a significant section of end-users for whom English is not the first language--both among current users as well as within the next billion users--an aspirational goal is that of a multilingual Internet: an Internet that they can use in their own script, and having content in their own language.
      

      The current initiative by the ICANN community to promote the use of IDNs and Universal Acceptance is closely tied to the growth of the multilingual Internet, as these are mutually reinforcing topics for end-users: the more the multilingual Internet (defined in terms of parameters such as language, writing systems, culture, diversity and gender) develops, the more the demand for IDNs and UA will rise.
      

      Although ICANN's remit is confined to the technical aspects of promotion of UA by filling technical gaps and disseminating technical information, end-user communities may need to go beyond these and look at building a multilingual Internet for the future, which will in turn benefit UA and IDNs. Further, given that IDNs and UA form its foundational infrastructure, these would be high-priority items in the progression towards the multilingual Internet.

      The proposed session will examine the current state of end-user participation in the journey towards the multilingual Internet--with special focus on IDNs and UA--and explore the possibilities of leveraging end-users, their organizations and their communities in activities such as outreach, remediation and awareness-building for IDNs and Universal Acceptance.

      Confirming and finalising the At-Large agendas: https://community.icann.org/x/1CiJBw

   2. Wrap Up to invite Board Chair, VC and other Board members. 

6. Questions for the Board
   1. See: At-Large Questions for ICANN68
7. Social Sessions:
   1. KL Cooking Classes - LaZat Virtual Cooking: https://www.lazatcooking.com/virtual-class.html
   2. Quiz with Jonathan Zuck
   3. ISOC Event on Tuesday 23 June at 10:00 UTC - all details TBC
8. Next Steps - Maureen Hilyard (5min)
9. AoB - Maureen Hilyard (3 minutes)