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At-Large Leadership Welcome to ICANN78

Jonathan Zuck welcomed the ALAC to ICANN78 and provided a summary of upcoming ALAC sessions at ICANN78.

Hadia Elminiawi provided updates and overview of talking points on IDNs and UA, Transfer Policy PDP, GNSO GGP on ASP, the Next Round program, Registration data accuracy scoping team, Closed Generics (note that it is no long on the Next Round critical path), DNS abuse, holistic reviews, and ICANN governance and operations. 

  • Maureen Hillyard emphasized the importance of working on the Applicant Support Program manual that will be provided to potential applicants. Highlighted that the ALAC will be important in outreach effort for ASP. 
  • Jonathan Zuck emphasized that the next round of the New gTLD Program would be a failure if ICANN org does not receive a diverse applicant pool. Jonathan Zuck emphasized that the Next Round should not focus on North American and European regions. 
  •  ALAC representatives to fill out At-Large Sessions Reports from ICANN78. 


Joint Session: ALAC and GNSO Council

Justine Chew welcomed everyone to the meeting between the GNSO and ALAC.

Jonathan Zuck provided an update on incoming and outgoing ALAC leadership and Sebatian Ducos, GNSO chair, provided an update on incoming and outgoing GNSO council leadership.

ALAC and Council leadership discussed diacritics in New gTLDs (specifically .Quebec and .Québec), Next Round Program, and Registration Data Request Service (RDRS). 

  • Regarding diacritics: The GNSO Council will continue to discuss the issue of diacritics, Council has not yet determined how they would like to proceed with the issue. 
  • Regarding the Next Round Program: The GNSO Council is initiating a "Small Team Plus" to address the remain pending recommendations from the Final Report on the new gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process. 
  • Regarding the RDRS: Registrar onboarding has begun and should launch by the end of the calendar year. The RDRS is voluntary and will inform the paths forward for pending registration data access (formerly System for Standardized Access/Disclosure) recommendations. The RDRS will run for 2 years and pending recommendations will then be revisited.

No action items identified. 

Sunday, 22 October


At-Large Operations, Finance and Budget (OFB-WG) - Overview and Year Ahead

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