ICANN 76

Dates:	11-16 March 2023 Community Forum
Location:	Cancun, Mexico
Venue:	Cancun Center
Website:	https://76.schedule.icann.org/

ICANN 76 is a Community Forum that will happen in Cancun, Mexico from March 11 through 16 and will have a hybrid format. Registration is available here.

Prep Week

From 27 February to 1 March, there will be sessions on the

• Implementation of Work Stream 2 Recommendations, phase 2 of the CCWG-Accountability process. Work Stream 2 focused on mechanisms following the completion of the IANA Functions Stewardship Transition
• Coalition for Digital Africa
• updates on or from Universal Acceptance, Planning and Finance, GNSO policy work, Contractual Compliance, SUBPRO, NCAP study 2, and IDNs

Topics

At ICANN 76,

• the ICANN Board:
  • adopted the Sub Pro Final Report Scorecard in full; Section A identifies the adopted outputs. Section B identifies the pending outputs. Section C identifies dependencies;
  • accepted the Second NomCom Organizational Review; and
  • thanked Manal Ismail for her service to the ICANN Board and Jonathan Spring for his service to the SSAC.

UA

• ICANN Organization and the UASG outlined progress on UA-readiness and IDNs
• [[EPDP on Internationalized Domain Names] Team held two working sessions toward publishing the Phase 1 Initial Report focusing on top-level IDN gTLD definition and variant management.

Transfer Policy Review

Focused on Phase 2 (aka Group 2) Topics

Internationalized Domain Name