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Notes from 10 June 2025 APAC Space Session

Notes from 10 June 2025 APAC Space Session

APAC Space was attended by about 50 in-person attendees (including ICANN staff onsite), and about 20 remote attendees. The turnout was better than anticipated as a few community members had to attend other conflicting sessions, and most of the GAC members were at the GAC session on DNS Abuse happening at the same time. We had 3 ICANN Board Members in attendance as well – Amitabh Singhal, Sajid Rahman and Chris Chapman. Although we had only allocated 35 mins for the session, we overran by 25 mins.

Samiran moderated the session. Highlights from each speaker/agenda item are as below:

 

  1. Board Priorities by Amitabh Singhal

  • DNS Abuse, New gTLD Program: Next Round, and WSIS+20 Review are key priorities for Board

  • 40 ASP applications (draft and submitted) from APAC region – the highest amongst all regions

 

  1. ICANN’s engagement plans at IGF2025 by Adam Peake (ICANN)

  • ICANN will be organizing 2 events at upcoming IGF2025

  • 1 high-level led by Kurtis, 1 workshop on IDNs

 

  1. WSIS+20 by Angela Wibawa (ICANN)

  • WSIS+20 Roadmap has been published

  • Co-chairs (Albania and Kenya) welcome ICANN’s commitment to the process

  • ICANN spoke/will be speaking at WSIS sessions

  • APAC community, including APNIC, have been actively participating at the sessions as well

  • ICANN will continue to keep community apprised of developments through the outreach mailing list

 

  1. RIR Governance Document (ICP-2) by Akinori Maemura (in his capacity as ASO AC rep)

  • Re-naming of ICP-2 to “RIR Governance Document”

  • Public comment for proposed document has closed and review of comments is underway

  • RIRs will update again on further consultation timeline and plans (within 2025) on the amended document

 

  1. Trusted Notifier Network (TNN) in APAC by Joy Chan (TWNIC) and Vivek Goyal (LdotR)

Joy:

  • 33,143 requests received by TWNIC between Jan and May 2025, of which 99% pertain to other gTLDs (mostly .com)

  • Many are e-commerce websites, and 21,327 requests pertain to fraud

  • .top and LdotR have recently signed agreements with TWNIC

Vivek:

  • TNN is more efficient in dealing with DNS Abuse for all parties, not just brand owners

  • Only learnt about it at ICANN82 (Seattle)

 

  1. Community discussion (facilitated) by Shita Laksmi (Individual Representative to APRALO, ICANN83 Fellow)

  • How does ICANN plan to connect alternative name systems such as blockchain name technologies with the DNS?

    • Sajid: Blockchain is decentralized by nature, and would not see it in their interest to centralize. Board is therefore of the view that the blockchain community is not ready to bridge their naming systems with the DNS.

  • How does ICANN envision the outcome for WSIS+20 Review?

    • Angela: Difficult to forecast, but the process has been better than the GDC as the technical community is more involved, so optimistic that the MSM will be preserved.

  • How to stay abreast of APAC community’s (e.g. APNIC, APTLD) involvement in WSIS+20 Review process?

    • Kenny (APNIC): Join our mailing list, participate in our Cooperation SIG and APNIC meetings

    • Amrita (APrIGF): Join our new working group on WSIS and mailing list

    • Edmon (AP* Secretariat): Join upcoming AP* meeting at the sidelines of APNIC60 in Da Nang this September