Description
In late 2019, the APRALO Leadership Team proposed the initiation of an APRALO Policy Platform for 2020. After reviewing input from RALO members to the proposal and in light of the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic, the Leadership Team considers this APRALO Policy Forum to be a modest but useful kickstart to facilitate and coordinate ICANN policy-related discussions at a regional level.
Purpose:
The APRALO Policy Forum seeks to:
- Facilitate informed, inclusive regional position development on issues within ICANN's remit
- Support APRALO Leadership's participation as a regional partner to the ALAC Policy Platform
Membership:
Open to all APRALO members interested in ICANN policy-related discussions, by subscription to the mailing list. The membership list is published below.
Operation:
To begin with, this Policy Forum will be facilitated using this work space and the apralo-policy@icann.org mailing list which will be moderated by members of the Leadership Team and supported by At-Large Staff. The ICANN Expected Standards of Behaviour will apply.
14 Sep 2020
Active Discussion(s)
Purpose: To improve the transparency and consistency of the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) table review process to facilitate the registry operations of new gTLDs, ICANN has developed additional reference IDN tables in machine-readable format, called reference Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs) for the second level. The reference IDN tables are based on the Guidelines for Developing Reference Label Generation Rules (LGRs), which were finalized after community review. These reference LGRs will be used in reviewing IDN tables submitted by the gTLD registries, e.g. through the Registry Service Evaluation Policy (RSEP) process.
Current Status: ICANN org had published reference second-level LGRs for multiple languages. Additional reference LGRs have been developed based on the detailed analysis and finalized solutions by the script community for the Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGRs). Seventeen (17) LGRs are being released for Public Comment including Bangla, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu script-based LGRs, and Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Thai language-based LGRs.
Next Steps: Based on the community input, these reference LGRs will be finalized and published for the use of gTLD registry operators to consult while they design their IDN tables. These reference LGRs will also be used in reviewing the IDN tables submitted by the gTLD registries.
Particular Focus for APRALO: Possible risk of confusion to individual end-users through use of visually similar multi-lingual scripts in domain names at the second level
At-Large Resources: Presentation by Bill Jouris
To Comment, go to: CPWG Workspace
PLANNINGThe At-Large Community and DNS Abuse: An Individual User Education Campaign
Background: During ICANN 67, the ALAC committed to a two-pronged strategy with regards to DNS Abuse. First, we would play a leadership role in promoting the necessary dialog, within the ICANN community, needed for reforms to ICANN policy, additional tools for ICANN Contract Compliance and best practices of all parties. The second prong, to which we have committed, is an education campaign, designed to alert our constituency, individual end users, to the dangers of DNS abuse and strategies to protect themselves.
It was proposed that representatives from each of the RALOs will discuss:
- Existing regional efforts already underway including available resources and lessons learned
- Additional resources (videos, flyers, etc.) that are necessary to enhance outreach on this topic
- Creative ways to get these resources in front of as many individual ends users around the world as possible
- Potential metrics to evaluate each of these efforts to allow for program assessment and refinement
Current Status: This is the follow on action, marking the first of many onward discussions, necessary to launch a large scale education campaign on DNS Abuse.
Next Steps: Each RALO to identify a representative to this discussion during ICANN69. That representative should come prepared with an understanding of what resources of which they are aware, which ones are being developed already by local organizations (ISOC, RALOs and other regional organizations) and what additional materials they believe are needed in their region. They should be prepared to brainstorm on how best to organize this effort at the regional level, once materials are identified; in other words:
- Should we identify a standard set of resources and then have the RALOs supplement them with regional flavor?
- Should this effort be parked as Capacity Building or Outreach?
The goal is to establish a group to work on this topic going forward,
Particular Focus for APRALO: To identify one or more representatives to act as our regional liaisons to this campaign and to help collate relevant information currently available with our region as our input.
To Comment or Add to the At-Large Resource Collection, go to: APRALO Participation in At-Large DNS Abuse Education Campaign
COMMENTCall for Comments to the ICANN69 ALAC/At-Large Talking Points
Current Status: The the draft ICANN69 ALAC/At-Large Talking Points is now open for comment.
To Comment, go to: Relevant wiki page
Proposed Project(s)
- Regional Inventory of Skills and Interests
- Regional Hot Topics Survey 2020
Contact
Staff Support Lead:
Mailing list: apralo-policy@icann.org
To subscribe to the APRALO Policy Forum mailing list (or read the archives / manage your subscription) please send a request to staff@atlarge.icann.org.
Members
Membership of the APRALO Policy Forum comprises:
Name | Position | Notes | Date Joined / (Resigned) | SOI |
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Justine Chew | ALAC Member/Co-Chair | 16 Sep 2020 | Justine Chew SOI | |
Satish Babu | APRALO Chair/Co-Chair | 16 Sep 2020 | ||
Lianna Galstyan | APRALO Vice-Chair | 28 Sep 2020 | ||
Ali AlMeshal | Outgoing APRALO Vice-Chair and ATLAS III Ambassador | 16 Sep 2020 | ||
Nadira Alaraj | Incoming APRALO Vice-Chair and ATLAS III Ambassador | 16 Sep 2020 | ||
Maureen Hilyard | ALAC Chair | 16 Sep 2020 | ||
Holly Raiche | ALAC Member | 16 Sep 2020 | ||
Aisyah Shakirah | ATLAS III Ambassador | |||
Amir Qayyum | ATLAS III Ambassador | 29 Sep 2020 | ||
Bikram Shrestha | ATLAS III Ambassador | |||
Gunela Astbrink | ATLAS III Ambassador | 17 Sep 2020 | ||
Hanan Khatib | ATLAS III Ambassador | |||
Kristina Hakobyan | ATLAS III Ambassador | 18 Sep 2020 | ||
Md Jahangir Hossain | ATLAS III Ambassador | |||
Prateek Pathak | ATLAS III Ambassador | |||
Priyatosh Jana | ATLAS III Ambassador | 17 Sep 2020 | ||
Shreedeep Rayamajhi | ATLAS III Ambassador | |||
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy | ATLAS III Ambassador | 30 Sep 2020 | ||
Suhaidi Hassan | ATLAS III Ambassador | 30 Sep 2020 | ||
Mohammad Kawsar Uddin | 22 Sep 2020 | |||
Winthrop Yu | 25 Sep 2020 | |||
Fouad Bajwa | 21 Sep 2020 | |||
Narine Khachatryan | 23 Sep 2020 | |||
Gopal Tadepalli | 21 Sep 2020 | |||
Aris Ignacio | 17 Sep 2020 | |||
Cheryl Langdon-Orr | 21 Sep 2020 | |||
Amrita Choudhury | 24 Sep 2020 | |||
Jaewon Son | ||||
Meetings:
Resources:
APRALO Policy Forum Discussions 2020 Archive