Overview
The APAC Regional Plan FY21-25 is an implementation plan of proposed regional activities with outcomes aligned to the objectives and goals of ICANN’s five-year Strategic Plan (which will take effect on 1 July 2020). This webinar discussed the first half of the draft Regional Plan to gather input and feedback from the APAC community. The session covered two Strategic Objectives which the Regional Plan aims to contribute to:
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Other than at APAC Space, anyone with comments on the Regional Plan can submit them directly on the Plan’s Community Wiki page. As a guide, feedback examples are found in a blog post by Jia-Rong Low (ICANN). The next session to discuss the second half of the Regional Plan will be in May.
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i) Communicate through established channels and participate in key platforms such as regional/local fora to raise awareness on the evolving root server system and how the DNS works.
ii) Grow a network with relevant stakeholders in the region, such as partnering members of the Root Server System Governance Working Group (RSS GWG) to contribute to the governance and technical evolution of DNS root server operations and services.
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On participation challenges, she cited ALAC’s Policy Forum having more participants from Europe and North America as an example in terms of language and time zone, which the APAC region needed to overcome. She also said the GNSO Council had experimented with the team composition of the EPDP (Expedited Policy Development Process), although the formula was not yet ideal. Instead of a PDP usually formed by anyone volunteering, admission to the EPDP team was by nomination from one’s stakeholder group or constituency. Two team members were considered as being from APAC, but were geographically within European time zones rather than further East.
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