ICANN 67
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| 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 edit
GNSO edit
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:
- the display of information of affiliated vs. accredited privacy/proxy providers,
- data retention,
- city field redaction, and
- 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.[1]
- The New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Working Group held three sessions on
- whether to allow closed generic top-level domains;
- 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
- 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.