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<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">By </span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Maarten Botterman, ICANN Board Chair</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">It is my privilege to announce that on 12 June 2022, the ICANN Board approved the recommendations of the Cross-Community Working Group on New gTLD Auction Proceeds (CCWG-AP).</span>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Through this action, the Board accepts the ICANN community’s recommendations and looks to the ICANN organization (org) to start a new phase of work: design, planning, and implementing an ICANN grant-giving program. Through this program, millions of dollars will be delivered to projects around the world to support the global interoperability, reliability, and security of the Internet’s unique identifiers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This decision materializes the Board’s long-standing promise to the community that disbursement of the auction proceeds would be done in line with community-developed proposals. The CCWG-AP was tasked with delivering proposals to the Board for how the proceeds accrued from the auctions of last resort in the 2012 New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program should be distributed. </span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Community devoted years of work to reach consensus recommendations, which form the basis of a grant-making program that has the potential to positively impact the Internet ecosystem and people across the world in furtherance of ICANN’s mission. </span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Board looks forward to org developing a program in line with the community’s recommendations.</span>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">RZMS's origins date back to the early 2000s. While it has fulfilled its objective well, over time our needs have grown and some of the designs built into the original system have constrained our ability to evolve the platform moving forward.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">ICANN org's Engineering and Information Technology team, which develops the RZMS, made the decision to rebuild the entire platform from the ground up, to create a modern modular system that would be more adaptable to future needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">For more details on the next steps and upcoming launch, read my</span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001gnZVx_0wPkDIfhlMIKXZUz3u8ng4xQQMvVCuJtg377J9mdAnY-eXLvPK2U7ohobJLhpTD_Kp2gL6qycH15rg7SRlLc45zGsWatREDpD1egOz3qjg5En4FRznRbIBu2j_rKeUUKA3Y9FA4d_grLQM_iE4a-ca203JWfPmhVCiC501LSnxagqutspF1CzoIz53BrF5mPelHs7zfSYttwB4L4Joonesu7oIDBy3NzoLhIATOSX3Dm7WVeVfjMtJ06iRlpYaE3cokd4=&c=gDreeEVC-LlbLh6HwWo_tU-txEWyNBMFq7dvYsHjQ--sp20494p30w==&ch=hBo1LOXowiRvHH6eUMKqynJCBjI7W5ix0KdShAJB7t-CyJooTP7ACg==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;color:#047bc1;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,51,51)">.</span>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">By Giovanni Seppia, VP, Implementation Operations</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">ICANN org has made significant progress addressing Work Stream 2 (WS2) implementation since our last update.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">WS2 of the Cross-Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability comprises nearly 100 accountability and transparency-related recommendations, directed at ICANN org, the ICANN Board, and the ICANN community, which serve to ensure ICANN remains accountable to the multistakeholder community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">At the end of the first calendar quarter of 2022 (Q1 2022), 13 recommendations directed at ICANN org were complete (up from eight at the end of Q4 2021), while implementation was in progress for 39 recommendations (up from 30 in Q4 2021). The end of FY22 is the targeted completion date for many recommendations, including addressing the remaining implementation guidance on the transparency of ICANN's Board deliberations, enhancing existing staff accountability mechanisms and publishing service level targets, and developing of a web</span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">page containing information relating to ICANN and the ICANN community's work on human rights.</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Read my</span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001gnZVx_0wPkDIfhlMIKXZUz3u8ng4xQQMvVCuJtg377J9mdAnY-eXLvPK2U7ohobJYJTE-SVKLiXoNdlRJomb8EdgNAiF6ceB1RtOkG_PFwcOZ7wfqcMcThQ1Tbn9AYMeNUgSnxf6CORItRnsxAFcHjxKhxI1ySrWvAPXnp9tzyXR7bdHYmtTn2bNYm_jqSO9Iz3X7c_sgV6q3XFL-yt02W3OewfbrCZ3clkl_Gt_FrxvKcb30EkE4IoX0lGsPnCY&c=gDreeEVC-LlbLh6HwWo_tU-txEWyNBMFq7dvYsHjQ--sp20494p30w==&ch=hBo1LOXowiRvHH6eUMKqynJCBjI7W5ix0KdShAJB7t-CyJooTP7ACg==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;color:#047bc1;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">for more details.</span>
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<span style="font-size:22px;color:rgb(255,255,255)">ICANN would like to hear about your experiences at this hybrid Public Meeting. Please email your feedback to </span><a href="mailto:icann74feedback@icann.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size:22px;color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal" target="_blank">icann74feedback@icann.org</a><span style="font-size:22px;color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">For the past few years, the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has concentrated on strengthening its collaboration and relationships with other community groups. Yesterday, the GAC conducted its regular bilateral meeting with the Generic Names Supporting Organization Council. Today, the GAC will prepare for upcoming interactions with the ICANN Board and the At-Large Advisory Committee. After those meetings, the GAC will begin drafting the ICANN74 GAC Communiqué.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Prioritization at ICANN remains an important topic, especially in light of challenges to the multistakeholder model as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical pressures, increasing security concerns, and exponential Internet growth. This plenary session will explore progress since the plenary session during ICANN59 in 2017. The ICANN Board, community, and org will share best practices, reflect on recent coordination efforts such as the Prioritization Framework Pilot Project, and look ahead to more efficient and effective shared use of limited resources and time.</span></div>
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<div><div><div><span style="font-size:22px;color:rgb(13,67,108);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">ccNSO: Policy Update</span></div></div></div>
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<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Third ccPDP on the Retirement of ccTLDs: </span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">The goal of this PDP is to report on and recommend a policy for a review mechanism for decisions pertaining to the delegation, transfer, revocation, and retirement of the delegated ccTLDs assigned to countries and territories listed in the ISO 3166-1.</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Fourth ccPDP Working Group on the (De)Selection of IDN ccTLD Strings:</span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"> This PDP defines the criteria, process, and procedures for (de)selecting Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) ccTLDs associated with the country codes assigned to countries, territories, or other areas of geopolitical interest listed in the ISO 3166-1 standard. The results of this PDP will eventually replace the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process. The working group will start stress-testing the draft policy recommendations.</span>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council recently formed a small team to assist with its analysis of the System for Standardized Access/Disclosure (SSAD) Operational Design Assessment (ODA). This team is tasked with evaluating whether the ODA has correctly interpreted the intent of the SSAD recommendations and has not overlooked any important aspects. Additionally, the small team was tasked with providing the GNSO Council with its view on concerns identified by the ICANN Board and potential options for addressing the concerns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The small team presented its work as reflected in the </span><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001gnZVx_0wPkDIfhlMIKXZUz3u8ng4xQQMvVCuJtg377J9mdAnY-eXLvPK2U7ohobJ0gRDv9QTgW-dq6zAIWpp1cY9F-3I4smOfaUexZzKknlhXaR4MG3beBa6YvDFdHI6FNrmMurwiv5oaCNY0hcxM5tRl1l5QvyWphEzdQnx9jsWTmGjh1qouewWG6SIcXsSM0qGYpPpcPpAnfh6WpxmGcvwPVPnhfrV4jpK5TfVnZnB_iVigfjm-klb4n89s-1xmakbLFtXoGQaN9GzlgESKg==&c=gDreeEVC-LlbLh6HwWo_tU-txEWyNBMFq7dvYsHjQ--sp20494p30w==&ch=hBo1LOXowiRvHH6eUMKqynJCBjI7W5ix0KdShAJB7t-CyJooTP7ACg==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(4,123,193);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Preliminary Report</a><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">, which it shared with the GNSO Council in April. The report resulted in a letter from the GNSO Council to the Board recommending that the Board pause consideration of the SSAD recommendations. The letter also requested ICANN org to develop a design concept, known as a proof of concept, for the WHOIS Disclosure System (SSAD Light).</span>
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<ul><li style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The small team considered the impact of SSAD Light on other GNSO Council work. This discussion was informed by a presentation from ICANN org that outlined how utilizing existing ICANN systems could reduce the resources and time needed to build the SSAD Light.</span></li></ul>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The GNSO Council will further consider the impact of developing a design concept for the WHOIS Disclosure System on other activities during its Council meeting on Wednesday, 15 June.</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic">ICANN celebrates the 15th anniversary of the ICANN Fellowship Program, our oldest global capacity-development program. Learn more about the program in this </span><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001gnZVx_0wPkDIfhlMIKXZUz3u8ng4xQQMvVCuJtg377J9mdAnY-eXLntU0asAjzHpZN-zULeFhRtFhzZ2hklFXJramE8riFGOtPvyT29j6imDlrO7eO33xqLngj6eD50_z8OtDILweWyz_jJ7EuiBlQ03oaS3fc8-BJb9nDnI6fLlMVHrJ3dZ14xoPriuxToIgIVLCIJdbpFLoaS2D_HzP-6hPEAmaqoiCQmNOX-6z-XKip6ANjFO0v60EmDS4LA746FmyBKPOlhE3bQcnWywEA==&c=gDreeEVC-LlbLh6HwWo_tU-txEWyNBMFq7dvYsHjQ--sp20494p30w==&ch=hBo1LOXowiRvHH6eUMKqynJCBjI7W5ix0KdShAJB7t-CyJooTP7ACg==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(4,123,193);font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic">. Here, past program leaders and participants share their experiences and offer words of advice for new Fellows.</span>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:italic;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">"I am glad to see the [ICANN] Fellowship grow and evolve to what it is today; it has produced leaders across the ICANN community, staff, and up to the Board level. I celebrate and thank all those who have contributed to this wonderful initiative. Long live the fellowship!"</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:18px;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">Amrita Choudhury</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:italic;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">"[The] ICANN Fellowship is the best example of a successful community development initiative to bring in diverse and new voices from across the globe into the ICANN ecosystem. Congratulations to all on this momentous landmark. May this initiative keep growing!"</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Shah has been a member of the Generic Names Supporting Organization's Noncommercial Stakeholder Group and Noncommercial Users Constituency since 2018, and a member of the Asian, Australasian, and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization (APRALO) since 2021. He serves as Co-Chair of the APRALO Social Media Working Group and is interested in the policymaking processes for generic top-level domains.</span></div>
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<div><div><div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(13,67,108);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:italic">“ICANN plays such a huge role in everyone’s daily life, but especially many young Internet users who have not heard of ICANN. Therefore, I am not only looking forward to learning more about ICANN’s work, but also about how to make ICANN’s mission more accessible to young people.”</span></div></div></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">After beginning her law studies at the University of Münster in 2018, Mirabella Knoben quickly realized that she was deeply interested in Internet governance. Consequently, she decided to focus on Internet, telecommunications, and media law and she attended various classes on information law, media law, copyright law, and data protection law. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">In her seminar paper, similar to a bachelor’s thesis, Knoben wrote about algorithmically regulated content and freedom of speech. In the paper, she mentioned ICANN’s multistakeholder model as a possible solution model for respecting human rights.</span></div>
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