ICANN Board Chair's Blog: A Preview of the Panama Board Workshop - ICANN

[Rafik Dammak]

hi all,

please find below the blog post from the ICANN board chair detailing the
agenda and topics to be discussed during the board workshop prior to Panama
meeting. We can see there the priorities for the board.

Best Regards,

Rafik


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*Chair's Blog: A Preview of the Panama Board Workshop*

We are less than two weeks away from ICANN62
<https://meetings.icann.org/en/panamacity62> in Panama City, Panama. That
means the Board is once again getting ready for another workshop, which
will be held from 22-24 June, right before the meeting.

If you’ll recall, we reorganized our last workshop in Vancouver [icann.org]
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allow for more time to discuss the European Union’s General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR) and the proposed Temporary Specification for gTLD
Registration Data [icann.org]
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so this upcoming workshop will give us an opportunity to reconvene on some
of the issues we set aside when we last met. We’ll be holding quite a few
public sessions, as well as a public Board meeting. You can find out how to
dial-in to these listen-only sessions here [icann.org]
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.

On Friday, 22 June, the first day of the workshop, we’re going to start off
with a dialogue with Göran Marby, ICANN President and CEO, and then jump
into a discussion about the current status of GDPR. This will include an
update on progress made in resolving the outstanding items outlined in
the Appendix
of the Temporary Specification [icann.org]
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After lunch, Akinori Maemura will be leading a public session [icann.org]
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on
recommendations for implementation of Internationalized Domain Name variant
top-level domains. Following that session, Ram Mohan and Kaveh Ranjbar,
along with David Conrad, will be providing an update on potential
strategies to increase the resilience of the L-root. Avri Doria will then
be leading a session on the status of the new generic TLD (gTLD) subsequent
procedures policy work in the GNSO. As the gTLD Policy Development Process
is getting close to making a recommendation about the possible launch of
another round of new gTLD applications, it’s important that the Board
discuss and start considering what its input might be. Afterwards, Becky
Burr will spearhead a session on the status of work on the new Independent
Review Process system, followed by a session on the Board’s communications
strategy, which will be led by Lousewies Van der Laan.

Saturday, 23 June, is packed with public sessions, so I highly encourage
you to review the schedule [icann.org]
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and
see which ones you might be interested in listening to. We will start the
day with a public Board meeting [icann.org]
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and then Avri and the Policy Development team will be briefing the Board on
some of the hot topics that will be discussed during ICANN62 to ensure we
are prepared. Maarten Botterman will then lead the second public session
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of
the day, which will be an update on the status of deliverables related to
the Board’s FY18 priorities, such as replenishing the ICANN org’s Reserve
Fund and measuring the community’s satisfaction with the Board. The
third public
session [icann.org]
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of
the day will be led by Khaled Koubaa and will be an update on the long
[icann.org]
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and
short [icann.org]
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options for streamlining the various ICANN reviews, a topic which is
currently out for public comment.

Following this, Maarten will hold a session on identifying our FY19
priorities. Becky Burr will then be joining him to host a session to
discuss the Board’s inputs into the new gTLD auction proceeds work. During
the final public session [icann.org]
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of
the day, led by Matthew Shears, the Board Working Group on Internet
Governance will be briefing the full Board about the upcoming potential
policy issues that may have an impact on ICANN. The day will end with our
feedback session, where we discuss how the workshop went and look for ways
to improve upon the efficiency and effectiveness during the next iteration.

The last day of the workshop, Sunday, 24 June, will be dedicated to
strategic planning, as well as a roundtable with the chairs of ICANN’s
Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees, which Göran, Chris
Disspain, and I plan to attend.

Given the wide range of issues that we’ll be addressing during the
workshop, I expect that this will be an intense and productive three days.
I look forward to having you join us for our public sessions [icann.org]
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as well as seeing many of you during the meeting.
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