ICANN 76
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| 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[edit | edit source]
From 27 February to 1 March, there will be sessions[1] 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[2], Contractual Compliance, SUBPRO, NCAP study 2, and IDNs
Topics[edit | edit source]
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.[3]
UA[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
The Transfer Policy Review PDP Working Group focused on Phase 2 (aka Group 2) Topics and discussed:[4]
- reducing the cost to reduce barriers to entry; introducing formality, such as accreditation; whether registrants are getting what they need – what current channels are available – settlement, courts (costly), through registrar (TDRP);
- whether to adjust the TDRP to accommodate registrants, which would require substantial changes or a new separate system.
- gaming or potential gaming of TDRP if available to registrants – could be adjusted for that.
- This WG focuses on transfers between contracted parties, so disputes among registrants could be out of scope.
- if out of scope the WG could make a recommendation to GNSO Council that a process for registrants could be considered separately.