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Background: As ICANN75 is being held in the APAC city of Kuala Lumpur, the APRALO Policy Forum is taking the lead in organising an At-Large policy session around IDNs. This session will see several ICANN community leaders discussing the direction to be taken by ICANN in attempting to improve the uptake of IDNs, while remaining cognizant of technical and operational challenges, the need to adhere to relevant international standards and protocols (such as the IDNA2008 standard), community-developed rules to determine the validity of IDN from a language/script perspective (i.e the Root Zone - Label Generation Rules), as well as individual end user perceptions on the availability and usability of IDNs.

AGENDA: 

Status:  Completed

Event Wiki:  At-Large Meetings - Monday, 19 September 2022

Recording of Session at ICANN75: Zoom Webinar Archive

Background: In 2017 and 2019, similar Hot Topics surveys were conducted for RALO members to determine topics which were considered important for the region and for the RALO's attention. See: APRALO Hot Topics 2017 | APRALO Hot Topics 2019.  For 2021, the APRALO Policy Forum's leadership proposed to align the Regional Hot Topic Survey 2021 (HTS Project) with the APRALO Register of Skills & Interests Project (Project RoSI) in order to take advantage of the following factors and existing activities:

1.  The HTS 2021 should not be conducted in a vacuum and should take into consideration existing topics covered by the At-Large and ALAC. See: Infographic 
2.  As part of its work scope, the Project RoSI small team is conducting a review of the said topics covered by the At-Large and ALAC, examining them for currency and/or updating
3.  The At-Large OFB-WG are also closely examining ICANN's FY22-26 Operating Initiatives, work which is expected to produce recommendations on what areas and topics the At-Large and ALAC should be prioritizing
4.  All the above information are expected to be distilled within Project RoSI and will be useful input on which to then base a RALO consultation
5.  The above steps will prevent unnecessary duplication of efforts while preserving key information for RALO members' consideration 

        See: Infographic report

Status:  Survey conducted. Outcomes were presented at the APRALO Monthly Meeting during ICANN75 on Tuesday, 20 September 2022.  View the Regional Priorities Report 

Recording of Regional Priorities Report at ICANN75: Zoom Webinar Archive | English audio archive | 中文音频存档

Dedicated Workspace:  APRALO Hot Topics 2021-2022 Workspace

Background: The third APRALO Fireside chat: "Let’s Talk About Transfer Policy" on Wednesday 29 June 2022 at 07:00 UTC featured ALAC Vice Chair and At-Large CPWG Co-Chair Jonathan Zuck in conversation with Guest Speaker, Steinar Grøtterød, Member of the GNSO Transfer Policy Review Policy Development Process Working Group (TPR PDP WG) selected by the ALAC. This conversation sheds light on the impact that GDPR has had on existing ICANN Transfer Policy around transfers of domain name registrations from one registrar to another registrar; the risks for registrants and/or individual end-users and associated issues arising thereafter; and the proposed remedies coming out the TPR PDP WG's recommendations in phase 1a. 

Status: Completed

Dedicated Event Wiki: https://icann-community.icannatlassian.orgnet/wiki/x/hQQVDbx7eBg (Agenda & Recordings)

More about: APRALO Policy Forum Fireside Chats 2022

Background: The second APRALO Fireside chat: "Let’s Talk About Closed Generic" on Wednesday 8 June 2022 at 07:00 UTC featured At-Large CPWG Co-Chair Olivier Crépin-Leblond in conversation with Guest Speaker, Holly Raiche, ALAC Member for APRALO, on new Generic Top-Level Domains (new gTLDs), what a closed generic is, and how the issue of closed generics might impact Internet end-users, leading to a discussion of factors in support of and against closed generics.

Status: Completed.

Dedicated Event Wiki: https://icann-community.icannatlassian.orgnet/wiki/x/LgH5CwHBzeBg (Agenda & Recordings)

More about: APRALO Policy Forum Fireside Chats 2022

Background: The inaugural APRALO Fireside chat: "Let’s Talk About GNSO PDP 3.0" took place on Thursday 26 May 2022 at 06:00 UTC, where APRALO Policy Forum Co-Chair Justine Chew conversed with her Guest Speaker, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, the immediate past ALAC Liaison to the GNSO Council, on a few key aspects of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO)'s operating procedure for consensus policy development for Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) as well as where and how At-Large plays a role in consensus policy development for gTLDs within ICANN.

Status: Completed.

Dedicated Event Wiki: https://community.icann.org/x/8g7CCw  (Agenda & Recordings)

More about: APRALO Policy Forum Fireside Chats 2022

Background: Tentatively code-named "Project RoSI", this project is intended to produce a dynamic Register of Skills & Interests for APRALO.

Status: Ongoing. Project RoSI Small Team completed preliminary work on data to be presented to the RALO for consultation vide the Hot Topics Survey 2021/2022. See: Infographic report Infographic report

Dedicated Workspace:  Project RoSI Workspace

Purpose: This Public Comment proceeding seeks to obtain community input on the Preliminary Issue Report on a Policy Development Process to Review the Transfer Policy.

Status: It was resolved by CPWG that 

In accordance with the GNSO Policy Development Process (PDP) rules, ICANN org published the Preliminary Issue Report for Public Comment to allow for community input on additional information, or the correction or updating of any information provided so far. ICANN org was seeking in particular input on the draft policy questions proposed in Section 3.2.2 of this Preliminary Issue Report, as well as the text provided in the draft Preliminary Charter in Annex A.

Excerpt: Description and Explanation
At its meeting on 24 June 2020, the GNSO Council voted to request the preparation of a Preliminary Issue Report on the issues identified in the Transfer Policy Initial Scoping Paper, to assist in determining whether a PDP or series of PDPs should be initiated regarding changes to the Transfer Policy.

This Preliminary Issue Report on a Policy Development Process to Review the Transfer Policy examines, et.al, the issues identified in the Transfer Policy Initial Scoping Paper and includes:

1. Gaining & Losing Registrar Form of Authorization ("FOA")
2. Auth Code Management
3. Change of Registrant
4. Transfer Emergency Action Contact ("TEAC")
5. Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy ("TDRP")
6. Reversing/NACKing Transfers

7. ICANN-Approved Transfers

8. EPDP Rec. 27

Section 3 of this Report explores the above-referenced issues individually and provides references to documents and processes that could inform future policy work.

Next Steps: Following review of the Public Comments received, ICANN org will update the Preliminary Issue Report and submit a summary of the comments received together with the Final Issue Report to the GNSO Council for its consideration and potential action.

To Comment:  Use the apralo-policy@icann.org mail list and/or this designated Googledoc 

Outcome: Discussion outputs could be forwarded to CPWG and/or transposed to an APRALO standalone submission to the public comment process.

Status: The draft ICANN69 ALAC/At-Large Talking Points has been finalized and is presented at ICANN69.

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.

Status: ALAC Statement 

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

For Comments, go to:   CPWG Workspace

Purpose: The objective of this Public Comment period is to share the GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Working Group's draft Final Report and present draft final recommendations and implementation guidance on topics within the Working Group's charter. The draft recommendations and implementation guidance included in this report are the culmination of years of Working Group deliberations and community input that take into account input received through a number of Public Comment periods, including a survey of existing Stakeholder Group / Constituency / Advisory Committee statements from the 2012 round of new gTLDs, a set of dozens of initial questions aimed at getting input on the processes and results of the 2012 new gTLD round, as well as comments on the Working Group's Initial Report and Supplemental Initial Reports. Given that some of the recommendations have been substantively updated since these earlier reports, this draft Final Report is being published for an additional Public Comment period. While the full report is open for comment, the Working Group would like input to focus on areas that have substantively changed since publication of the Initial Report and Supplemental Initial Report and in limited instances, questions that the Working Group has posed to the community for feedback.

Status: ALAC Statement 

Next Steps: Upon the receipt of this Public Comment period, all comments will be considered by the Working Group, which will adjust the draft Final Report as applicable.

Particular Focus for APRALO: The GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Working Group's Draft Final Report and Working Group charter cover a very large number of topics, and the At-Large Consolidated Policy Working Group (CPWG) has been reviewing the development of the Draft Final Report and in that process, a fair few (21 and counting!) Scorecards to capture/present key At-Large feedback/comments/responses. Given that the public comment period closes on 30 Sep 2020, it is suggested that APRALO focus on reviewing and commenting on just a few topics of interest/relevance to our region, in particular, these 3 Scorecards:

1. Universal Acceptance, v4 settled 27 May 2020
2. Internationalized Domain Names, v4 settled 28 May 2020
3. Applicant Support Program, v8 settled 13 Sep 2020 (revised from v7 settled 5 May 2020)   

Other At-Large Resources:

• At-Large Capacity Building Webinar: New gTLD Rounds and Subsequent Procedures, 3 Aug 2020
• CPWG Subsequent Procedures Small Team Updates Workspace

For Comments, go to: At-Large SubPro scorecards for final comment on the workspace and Google Doc for comment

Mail Archive / Inputs: Sep 2020