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• Topic 1 - Public Interest Processes, discussed in light of the plenary session 
  • ALAC (Marita Moll) - Provided a review of the Global Public Interest Framework (GPIF) that took place at ICANN73. Outcome included general agreement that the GPIF should continue moving forward.
  • GAC (Veliiar Nemiguentcheva) - Noted for the GAC the question on how the GPIF can be used, including 1) who should be applying the GPIF; 2) When it should be applied and 3) How it should be applied (TBC); Also, how to reconcile the MSM and the different interests among the stakeholders. There is still some questions on the next steps.
  • Next steps - ALAC/GAC to discuss more to fully understand how to use the GPIF and collaboration opportunities.   
• Topic 2 - Universal Acceptance and IDNs 
  • ALAC (Satish Babu) - Clear and significant alignment of interests between GAC and ALAC on UA and IDNs; Numerous benefits of closing the UA gap, still important gaps on UA readiness; ALAC has been taking up UA-related activities within the RALOs; Noted the ALAC work on an end user survey on IDNs and UA in India in the Hindi language. 
  • GAC (Nigel Hickson) - Noted that the UA/IDNs are extremely importance and that are commitment to everyone having access to the internet, IDNs and UA are key. Reviewed session on UA during ICANN73. Although progress has been made, governments need to do more. Commented that end users who are coming to governments asking for IDNS and UA and therefore there should be greater collaboration between GAC and ALAC. 
• Topic 3 - SSAD
  • GAC (Laureen Kapin) - Registrars will need to make the decision. The viability rests with them. There is also some uncertainties raised in the ODA. So there is a package of uncertainty. In addition, there is also a question on time, 4-6 years for full implementation. Headline here is that the SSAD ODA raises many questions and may not give the Board the information they require. 
  • ALAC (Alan Greenberg) - Strong correlation between ALAC/GAC positions. On the financial aspects of the ODA, the range of costs was very vast. The SSAD report allowed ICANN to fully subsidize the development costs and part of the operational costs and the ODA team ignored both. The report allowed requesters to provide assurances of how they would use the data. However, the ODA did not allow for these. Finally, the SSAD will take too long to deploy, will not provide sufficient value, and will not be able to keep up with the new regulations. Conclusion from ALAC is that it should not be built. 
• Topic 4 -ALAC and GAC Coordination at the National Level 
  • ALAC (Yrjo) - One might argue that the MSM begins at home. A few possible option: National multi stakeholder bodies; National and regional IGFs - cited Finnish MS committee that discuss this. Also leveraging expertise available at the ALS level. Suggested that best practices like this would be collected by both groups and compared either inter-sessionally or ICANN74. 
  • GAC (Shi Young) - Asked whether there are good practices of enhancing multi-stakeholderism through public-private partnership at national level. What are the challenges for making collaborative efforts in the policy development among various stakeholders. Finally, raised question on how the ALAC/GAC can improve cooperation among various stakeholders at national level. 
• Joanna Kulesza commented that there are several areas for collaboration. Opened floor for questions and answers as well as possible areas of future collaborative work.
• Many best practices were noted in the chat. Joanna Kulesza noted that there appeared to be much opportunity for collaboration on best practices. 
• Q/A
  • Manal Ismail - Noted it would be difficult to add a topic beyond the 8 already agreed.
  • Dai Morishita -  Asked for update on proposed ALAC/GAC small group on DNS abuse. Joanna commented that this work will move forward at the inter-sessional. 

At-Large Wrap up sessions 

• All participants provided updates and highlights on their respective meetings
• Maarten Botterman noted that he looks forward to meeting with the community in person in the Hague.
• Goran mentioned that the war on Ukraine has impacted our priorities, ICANN 73 was held in a very different context, it was a very intense period for the Board and the organization, he cited the request received from the Ukrainian government, which was addressed by ICANN org, setting aside 1 million $.
• ICANN org also announced the issuance of waivers for registrants in Ukraine, ICANN also implemented actions to prevent DNS Abuse.
• Goran emphasized that this ICANN 73 meeting is a testament to the efficiency of the MS model and that we should be proud of the model.
• Goran’s Big take away is to thank the community for the work and commitment to the MS.