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Public Interest Commitments (PICs) are a way for nTLD applicants to add provisions to the Registry Agreement, as a way of demonstrating commitment to specific policies, philosophical standpoints, or other commitments to the public interest. It was originally proposed by ICANN on February 5, 2013, in the draft revised new registry agreement. PICs are voluntary amendments that applicants can add to hold their registry operations to certain standards. They can help applicants appease GAC members' concerns about how their application stands as is, or how ICANN will ensure that a potential registry remains compliant with its aspirations and mandate as it defined in its summary of its proposed operations in the TLD application. Prior to PICs, there was no clear way to define operating procedures when moving from the long-form essays in the TLD application to the Registry Agreement.
- On March 24, the Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC) and the DotAsia Organisation (DotAsia) signed an MoU of bilateral collaboration with ICANN as a witness. The two registries, one for a ccTLD and one for a gTLD, established a Fast Track mechanism via Trusted Notifiers to combat cross-border cybercrime in relation to DNS Abuse.
- The APAC DNS Forum 2022, which was cohosted by MYNIC and ICANN, ran from March 29 to April 1. Video recordings of sessions are available here.
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