Monday, 13 June 2022
At-Large Leadership Session: Welcome to ICANN74
- No Action Items recorded.
The session included a welcome by ICANN Board Chairman Maarten Botterman and Board Vice Chair Leon Sanchez. An overview of all the At-Large sessions was provided. Jonathan Zuck provided an introduction on the At-Large ICANN74 Talking Points which focused on SubPro and DNS abuse.
At-Large Regional Leaders Meeting
- All RALO chairs will continue to have regular coordination meetings.
- Satish Babu will call 2 meetings before ICANN 75 KL.
- The topic of the Mobilization WP implementation should be put on Agenda for the next Regional Leadership meeting and discussed among all RALOs
- Next Regional Leadership Chair Satish Babu to start work on the implementation of the WS2 Continuous improvement program and the implementation of the recommendations of the At-Large review.
- All RALOs who are working on the review of their respective Rules of procedure should share their work with others so all RALO rules are in synchronization.
- On the topic of RALO Coordination, Satish mentioned that the topic of outreach and engagement is important, and the next ICANN 75 meeting is a good opportunity to look at O/E jointly.
At-Large Policy Session 1: Evolving the DNS Abuse Conversation: An end user's perspective - The Role of At- Large
- No Action Items recorded.
Leon Sanchez (Board Vice Chair) - Noted that there are some definitional issues. The accepted definition must come from the community. The Board should be facilitating the discussion to create the conditions for the community to discuss. There should be various discussions and then a way to combine a more robust community effort to agree to advance or settle the discussion. Leon noted that the Board has also discussed the issue of a common understanding of DNS abuse during the recent Board Workshop. Org efforts including technical to the practical.
Joanna Kulesza (ALAC Member, EURALO) - Joanna summarized At-Large activities on DNS abuse. This session is a key area of interest to At-Large so there has been capacity building, persuasive promotion and external networking. Related to capacity building, several webinars have been held on DNS abuse. Related to persuasive promotion, there was an ABR that focused on DNS Abuse. Related to external networking - At-Large has worked with outside entities on this topic.
Seun Ojedeji (AFRALO Chair) - AFRALO wishes to provide feedback into At-Large work on DNS abuse. AFRALO also is working on outreach and engagement, including DNS abuse.
Graeme Bunton (DNS Institute) - Suggest that At-Large concentrate on the areas of agreement. Find opportunity to move forward where there is agreement and set aside those areas on the edges.
Satish Babu (APRALO Chair) - APRALO does not have an definition, but the way to defining is a journey. Awareness raising is fundamental. Advocacy is also important. Technology (that can predict DNS abuse) is useful. Finally, inter-RALO work is necessary.
Olivier Crepin-Leblond (EURALO) - Highlighted the work of the CPWG in drafting statements on DNS abuse. Noted IS Trust - open source.
Augusto Ho (LACRALO Chair) - I would like to discuss the needs of end users - not just LACRALO. In Panama, there was a bill being passed on entrepreneurships. I've been receiving feedback from students and others. We know that the new entrepreneurs are the recipients of DNS abuse. Making use of the ideas of entrepreneurs to combat DNS abuse. So training would be useful.
Graeme Bunton (DNS Institute) - Set out challenges of end users to report DNS abuse. Noted that registrars and registries spending large amounts of funding to try to mitigate DNS Abuse without much impact. Net Beacon is an open source means of reporting DNS Abuse. It standardizes the reporting,
