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label[11] Regional Hot Topics Survey (2021)

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titleACTIVATING
 Regional Hot Topics Survey 2021

Current Status: This project will be activated soon. A (second) call for volunteers to assist with this project will be made.


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label[10] Register of Skills & Interests (2021)

 

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titleACTIVE
 APRALO Register of Skills & Interest Project (2021)

Background: Tentatively code-named "Project RoSI", this project is intended to produce a dynamic Register of Skills & Interests for APRALO.

Status: Ongoing. Project RoSI Small Team working on data to be presented to the RALO for consultation vide the Hot Topics Survey 2021.

Dedicated Workspace:  Project RoSI Workspace


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idIDNs_Webinar_07.2021
label[9] Webinar on IDNs (2021)

 

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titleCOMPLETED
 APRALO Webinar on Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) (2021)

Background: At its May 2021 meeting, the GNSO Council resolved to initiate the Expedited Policy Development Process on Internationalized Domain Names (EPDP on IDNs) and to approve the EPDP Team Charter. The Council agreed that an EPDP was appropriate and needed to address the topic of IDNs because policy in IDNs has been "substantially scoped previously such that extensive, pertinent background information already exists", which includes the IDN-related Outputs from the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP that the Council had approved on at its February 2021 meeting. The EPDP on IDNs has been structured as a "Representative + Open" model and a call for members, participants and observers was made by the GNSO Secretariat on 3 June 2021.  At-Large Staff then issued a call for At-Large member expressions of interest for the ALAC Appointee Selection Committee to consider and to select 3 members to represent the ALAC on this EPDP.

To encourage APRALO Members (both ALS Members and Individual Members) with an interest in IDNs to respond to both the At-Large call for members and the GNSO's call for participants and observers volunteers to this EPDP on IDNs, the APRALO Policy Forum Co-Chairs Satish Babu and Justine Chew are spearheading the organization of an introductory APRALO Webinar on IDNs to help build the capacity of our RALO members to engage meaningfully in the work of this EPDP.

In service of this goal, the webinar will be held on Tuesday, 27 July 2021 at 08:00 UTC for 90 minutes and will, among other things, broadly address the following: 

  • When IDNs were introduced to the Root Zone
  • The landscape of IDNs in the APAC region
  • Existing policies and procedures on IDNs including the Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGRs) in addressing security/confusability in IDNs
  • An overview on IDN Variant TLD management (in context of the ICANN Board's 2010 resolution on need for variant management solution to be in place prior to next round of New gTLDs)
  • An overview on the GNSO Subsequent Procedures policy recommendations for the next round of IDN New gTLD applications 
  • Background to the EPDP on IDNs 

Status: Completed. A recording of the webinar, along with speaker presentations are available at https://community.icann.org/x/x4n8CQ 


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label[8] Subsequent Procedures (2021)

 

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titleCLOSED
 APRALO Statement to the Call for Public Comments to the GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Final Outputs for ICANN Board Consideration (22 Apr - 1 Jun 2021)

Status: 

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titleSUBMITTED
 APRALO Statement on Subsequent Procedures Final Outputs, 1 Jun 2021  See: Submission link

Background: A Public Comment Process has been initiated to invite comments to the GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Final Outputs for ICANN Board Consideration. This Public Comment Process, which closes on 1 June 2021, is intended to focus on all Outputs approved by the GNSO Council, rather than the Outputs that were not approved. Those not approved are Topic 23 Closed Generics in its entirety and recommendations 35.2 and 35.4 from Topic 35 Auctions: Mechanisms of Last Resort / Private Resolution of Contention Sets.

At the Consolidated Policy Working Group (CPWG) call on 28 April 2021, CPWG Co-Chair Olivier Crepin-Leblond suggested that each RALO may wish to consider submitting its own statement to this Public Comment Process. It was also suggested that such a RALO statement, if any, might be based on the ALAC Advice on Subsequent Procedures, which had been developed through the CPWG deliberation process and subsequently ratified unanimously by the ALAC prior to its submission to the ICANN Board on 16 April 2021. For reference, this particular ALAC Advice is published along with translation in the other 5 UN languages as well at the CPWG work space.

At the APRALO Monthly Call of 20 May 2021, the following recommendation was adopted for APRALO to participate in and submit a statement to the referenced Public Comment Process.

The Recommendation

  • That APRALO ought to submit a statement to this Public Comment Process
  • That a small team of drafters be conscripted to prepare such a statement
  • That the statement should:-
    • Endorse the ratified ALAC Advice on Subsequent Procedures of 16 April 2021 (see: ALAC Advice at https://atlarge.icann.org/advice_statements/13823)
    • Emphasize in particular the importance of the following:
      1. To facilitate increased adoption of Universal Acceptance (UA) & Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
      2. To facilitate increased & equitable access by “Global South”, community / niche TLD applicants through the Applicant Support Program (ASP) & Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) and a ban on private auctions
      3. To advocate for ALAC to have automatic standing to file Community Objections (where it deems necessary)
  • That the prepared statement be circulated through the APAC-Discuss mailing list by Wed 26 May 2021 for comments
  • That the APRALO Leadership Team be empowered to finalize and submit the statement prior to the 1 June 2021 submission deadline

To review the drafted statement, go to: < this googledoc link > 


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