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- “Who Sets ICANN’s Priorities?” session– A poll conducted with participants during this plenary showed that about 30% were unaware of ICANN’s priorities. Also notable was the trial launch of the ICANN Prioritization Framework which could be useful to increase community engagement.
- “Updates on Geopolitical, Legislative, and Regulatory Developments” session— This plenary provided updates on regulations/legislations impacting ICANN. From the APAC region, China’s Personal Information Protection Law (see blog), as well as India’s recent “Directions on the IT Act 2000 sub-section (6) of section 70B” relating to CERT-IN bear impacts to ICANN contracted parties.
- DNS Abuse— ICANN published a DNS abuse trends report and a blog, highlighting that DNS Abuse, especially spam, has been trending down. Another significant update on this topic is DNS Abuse Institute’s launch of NetBeacon, a centralized online abuse reporting tool which would be useful for ICANN contracted parties.
- Closed Generics— In addition to the “At-Large Policy: Closed Generics-Finding a Balance” session, this topic was also discussed by the GNSO Council Small Team which reported their considerations on the Framing Paper in relation to the Board proposed GNSO-GAC facilitated discussion.
- SSAD Light/WHOIS Disclosure System. The WHOIS Disclosure System project follows from the community's work and ICANN org's Operational Design Phase (ODP) on the System for Standardized Access/Disclosure to Non-public gTLD Registration Data (SSAD). This was discussed at length at ICANN74 as the undertaking of this project would impact other ongoing projects. [Note: A blog has since been published on the commencement of this project and its impact]
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Around ICANN74, key updates from RSSAC discussions were:
- The RSSAC 2nd Organizational Review Implementation Progress Final Report was submitted to the Organizational Effectiveness Committee (OEC) of the ICANN Board.
- Hiro has been appointed as the liaison to NomCom for one year, and elections are ongoing for liaisons to the ICANN Board, Customer Standing Committee, and Root Zone Evolution Review Committee.
- The RSSAC will soon discuss on updating the publications RSSAC01 (Advisory on Service Expectation of Root Servers) and RSSAC02 (Advisory on Measurements of the Root Server System).
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