ICANN 67

Dates:	March 7-12, 2020
Location:	Virtual
Website:	ICANN 67 (registration required)

ICANN 67 was held as a virtual community forum in March 2020. It was the first meeting to be fully virtual as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The original host was Cancun, and the time zone for meeting scheduling was Eastern Standard Time.

Sessions

GNSO

The GNSO held 19 sessions including GNSO policy development process (PDP) working group meetings, Stakeholder Group and Constituency work meetings, and a GNSO Council meeting.

• The EPDP Team finalized its draft recommendations on Priority 2 topics:

1. the display of information of affiliated vs. accredited privacy/proxy providers,
2. data retention,
3. city field redaction, and
4. feasibility of unique contacts to have a uniform anonymized email address. The EPDP Team included these recommendations in its Addendum

on Priority 2 items for Public Comment.

• The New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Working Group held three sessions on

1. whether to allow closed generic top-level domains;
2. Global Public Interest topics such as Mandatory Public Interest Commitments (PICs), Voluntary Public Interest Commitments, tentatively called Registry Voluntary Commitments (RVCs), DNS Abuse, and Verified TLDs; and
3. Draft recommendations on GAC Advice and GAC Early Warning.

• The Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs PDP working group reviewed the draft Phase 1 Initial Report, with 26 preliminary

recommendations, 17 specific community questions, and 24 proposals. The working group deliberated RPM-related recommendations of the Temporary Specification team and the Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review Team.

Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).

Governmental Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN's policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues (ICANN Bylaws).

Policy Development Process