Description
APRALO Policy Forum to be a modest but useful kickstart to facilitate and coordinate ICANN policy-related discussions at a regional level.
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 thisPurpose:
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)
PLANNING The 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
Projects
COMPLETED 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
ACTIVE 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.
Dedicated Workspace: Project RoSI Workspace
INACTIVE Regional Hot Topics Survey 2021
Current Status: This project remains inactive at this juncture.
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 | Date Joined / (Resigned) | Notes |
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ALAC Member/Co-Chair | 16 Sep 2020 | ||
APRALO Chair/Co-Chair | 16 Sep 2020 | ||
Nadira Alaraj | APRALO Vice-Chair and ATLAS III Ambassador | 16 Sep 2020 | |
Maureen Hilyard | ALAC Chair | 16 Sep 2020 | |
Holly Raiche | ALAC Member | 16 Sep 2020 | |
Gunela Astbrink | ATLAS III Ambassador | 17 Sep 2020 | |
Priyatosh Jana | ATLAS III Ambassador | 17 Sep 2020 | |
Aris Ignacio | 17 Sep 2020 | ||
Kristina Hakobyan | ATLAS III Ambassador | 18 Sep 2020 | |
Fouad Bajwa | 21 Sep 2020 | ||
Gopal Tadepalli | 21 Sep 2020 | ||
Cheryl Langdon-Orr | 21 Sep 2020 | ||
Mohammad Kawsar Uddin | 22 Sep 2020 | ||
Narine Khachatryan | 23 Sep 2020 | ||
Amrita Choudhury | 24 Sep 2020 | ||
Shreedeep Rayamajhi | ATLAS III Ambassador | 30 Sep 2020 | |
Jaewon Son | 05 Oct 2020 | ||
Mahmoud Lattouf | 17 Mar 2021 | ||
Lianna Galstyan | APRALO Vice-Chair | 18 Mar 2021 | |
Amir Qayyum | ATLAS III Ambassador | 18 Mar 2021 | |
Winthrop Yu | 18 Mar 2021 | ||
Prateek Pathak | ATLAS III Ambassador | 19 Mar 2021 | |
Abdul Ghayoor Bawary | 22 Mar 2021 | ||
K Mohan Raidu | 29 Mar 2021 | ||
Suhaidi Hassan | ATLAS III Ambassador | 29 Mar 2021 | |
Azatullah Dawoodzai | 01 Apr 2021 | ||
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy | ATLAS III Ambassador | 05 May 2021 | |
Ali AlMeshal | Former APRALO Vice-Chair and ATLAS III Ambassador | 05 May 2021 | |
Aisyah Shakirah | ATLAS III Ambassador | ||
Bikram Shrestha | ATLAS III Ambassador | ||
Hanan Khatib | ATLAS III Ambassador | ||
Md Jahangir Hossain | ATLAS III Ambassador |
Meetings:
- Project RoSI Team Call in July 2021 (TBD)
Resources:
TOOLS: Templates | Surveys | Jamboards
APRALO Policy Forum Discussions Archive