Monday, 13 June 2022
At-Large Leadership Session: Welcome to ICANN74
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Lucien Castex , Representative for Public Affairs, Afnic - Provided a summary of the French priorities related to the Internet and DNS of the EU Presidency
Chris Buckridge , Advisor to the RIPE NCC Managing Director on issues of Global Strategic Engagement - Commented on the RIPE NCC view's of the EU's NIS2 and DNS4EU.
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Joint Meeting: ALAC and GAC
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Topic 3 - Geopolitical Issues and advancing the MS model
- ALAC Speaker: Marita Moll - Discussed civil society in At-Large. Discussed incentives, the need for indicators, and how to attract and train new members. Highlighted the ALAC questions to the Board at ICANN73 on how to engage/retain volunteers. Noted that the ALAC hopes that the GAC will join/support the ALAC in their activities on how to manage community volunteers.
- GAC Speaker: Jorge Cancio, GAC representative of the Switzerland - Provided an update on IGO activities, including a tech envoy of the UN Secretary General. This new office aims to create synergies in the work of the different agencies of the UN on the larger digital field of activities. Also noted the Internet Governance Plus - an aim to make the IGF more inclusive. Also, in the 2025 there will be a big review of the founding Internet governance agreements in 2003 and 2005 will be reviewed this September.
- Susan Chalmers, US Rep - Noted that the US has joined the EU and 60 other countries to advance a positive vision for the vision of the Internet.
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At-Large Leadership Wrap up
Session leads provided an overview of their sessions.
Maarten Botterman provided the highlights of the Board during ICANN74 and initial plans for ICANN75.
Goran Marby - Noted that the community has done very well with the masks and lanyards. Also, there have been 105 meetings with over 800 on site participants from 101 countries.