ICANN 59

Dates:	26-29 June 2017
Location:	Johannesburg, South Africa
Venue:	Sandton Convention Centre
Registration:	Registration

ICANN 59 was a ICANN Meeting held in Johannesburg, South Africa, at which Hiro Hotta, .jp, and Patricio Poblete, .cl. received the ICANN Multistakeholder Ethos Award. The first ICANN Empowered Community Forum was held at this meeting.

It was the 3rd return to South Africa after ICANN 21 in Cape Town and ICANN 47 in Durban.

Sessions

ASO

• ITEMS International presented the Draft Final Report of the organizational review of the ASO.

ccNSO

• The Cross-Community Working Group on the Use of Country and Territory Names as Top-Level Domains (CWG-UCTN) received support for the recommendation to close the working group and organize a new effort with a broader mandate embedded in a broader context.
• The ccNSO Guidelines Review Committee (GRC), formed to structure the decision-making of the ccNSO to become a Decisional Participant, found out that the ccNSO decision-making process is incompatible with the timelines of the ICANN Bylaws Approval Action procedure. The GRC proposed 3 solutions, of which the ccNSO Council decided that both the Approval Action process and the Rejection Action petition process should be subject to the request of a members’ ratification vote (under the ccNSO 2004 rules).
• The ccNSO Council approved Fundamental Bylaw change proposed by ICANN Board.
• The ccNSO Council initiated the third ccNSO Policy Development Process concerning the Retirement of ccTLDs and review mechanisms for decisions relating to the delegation, transfer, revocation, and retirement of ccTLDs.

GNSO

• The GNSO Council confirmed the leadership team and approved the process and criteria for the GNSO Standing Selection Committee (SSC), which it established to select candidates for ICANN review teams and Empowered Community administration representatives.
• the GNSO held a joint session with the ccNSO about Empowered Community Administration processes, procedures, and timelines; the review of the Customer Standing Committee charter; and the FY19 Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) budget.
• The GAC and GNSO's joint session covered Red Cross/Red Crescent and International Governmental Organizations, GAC PDP engagement, and the GNSO review of the GAC Copenhagen Communiqué.
• GNSO WG leaders met to discuss Key Signing Key Rollover, the PTI budget, and global stakeholder engagement.

ALAC

• The ALAC discussed Global Public Interest issues like nTLD consumer safeguards with Bryan Schilling, the Domain Abuse Activity Reporting Project, and the First Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review.
• the ALAC discussed the method and timeline for developing the At-Large Review Recommendations Feasibility Assessment and Implementation Plan
• ALAC had a joint session with the GNSO ALAC liaison, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, about the GDPR
• ALAC met with senior staff from the Global Stakeholder Engagement and Public Responsibility Support (PRS) teams about growing participation in ICANN policymaking in Africa.

Address Supporting Organization. Advises the Board with respect to policy issues relating to the operation, assignment, and management of Internet addresses (ICANN Bylaws).

Country Code Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board global policies relating to country-code top-level domains (ICANN Bylaws).

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).

Public Technical Identifiers

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

At-Large Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group.