ICANN60 | Abu Dhabi

Program update and advisory panel discussion
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Staff Leader: Mukesh Chulani
Staff Facilitator: Cyrus Namazi

Human rights are an increasingly crucial part of processes and community discussions at ICANN. The commitment to human rights is now part of the ICANN bylaws with the the Framework of Interpretation being finalised. The most recent budget also approves a human rights impact assessment (HRIA) for 2018. The Cross Community Working Party on ICANNs Corporate and Social Responsibility to Respect Human Rights aims to provide an overview of ongoing human rights related processes and present research on ICANN's present and potential impact on human rights. The session will begin with an overview of the human rights discussion at ICANN, with updates from the CCWG processes from Work-Stream 2. This will be followed by the presentation of a new report on potential HRIA models for the GNSO. This session hopes to better inform the nuances of human rights discussions at ICANN, while encouraging interactive and constructive cross-community participation. We will invite expert discussants from across stakeholder groups to provide feedback and dialogue at the session. This builds on the sessions held since ICANN50 in London, on this issue as well as the previous reports that were produced on this topic which can be found here: http://icannhumanrights.net Wiki agenda page: https://community.icann.org/x/LSMhB
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Staff Leader: Terri Agnew
Staff Facilitator: Maryam Bakoshi

The session provides an update by the IDN Implementations Guidelines WG on the revisions being proposed to these guidelines
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Staff Leader: Sarmad Hussain
Staff Facilitator: Pitinan Kooarmornpatana

This session will present the final Framework for Registry Operators to respond to security threats and discuss future activities.
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Staff Leader: Dennis Chang
Staff Facilitator: Dennis Chang

Krista Papac, ICANN’s first-ever Complaints Officer, is hosting a round-table discussion during the ICANN60 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Krista will discuss the objectives of the Office, provide an overview of the type of complaints that should be directed to her, and share her observations thus far.
This is a great opportunity for the ICANN community members to have a one-on-one conversation with Krista to learn more about the Complaints Office and how it’s been working, and to share any suggestions or feedback you may have for the ICANN organization.
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Staff Leader: Krista Papac
Staff Facilitator: Krista Papac

Interested in the progress that the CCWG-Accountability is making toward enhancing ICANN accountability?
Join this high-interest session for an exceptional opportunity to provide your input and feedback on draft recommendations, as the Cross Community Working Group on Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) of Work Stream 2 (WS2) begins writing its final report.
The session will inform the ICANN communities on: • The approach for completing the work of the CCWG-Accountability. • The progress made on its 8 sub-projects: o Diversity (draft report should be completing its first public consultation). o Guidelines for standards of conduct presumed to be in good faith associated with exercising removal of individual ICANN Board Directors (final recommendations should be submitted for final approval). o Human Rights (recommendations should be submitted for final approval). o Jurisdiction (TBD). o Ombudsman (draft recommendations expected to be in public consultation). o SO/AC Accountability (recommendations should be submitted for final approval). o Staff Accountability (draft recommendations expected to be in public consultation). o Transparency (second version of the draft recommendations should be in public consultation). o The developments of the IRP Implementation Oversight Team (IOT).
There will be multiple opportunities for Q&A throughout the session.
Background The CCWG-Accountability is expected to deliver proposals that would enhance ICANN’s accountability towards all stakeholders. Work Stream 2 was extended for all of fiscal year 2018 at ICANN59, and is currently on track to complete the project by June 2018. The CCWG-Accountability must begin writing its final Report after ICANN60 and be prepared to publish it for a public consultation by ICANN61. This would allow it to finalize its report for Chartering Organizations' approval by ICANN62 in June 2018.
Agenda • Background on WS2 • Process for completing WS2 • Review of schedule to complete WS2 • Review, status and Q&A for each WS2 topic: • Closing Q&A
How to Participate The meeting will take place on Monday, 30 October 2017, from 06:30 UTC to 08:00 UTC or 10:30 GST to 12 GST. To participate, please email: mssi-secretariat@icann.org to obtain a calendar invite with dial-in details.
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Staff Leader: Theresa Swinehart
Staff Facilitator: Brenda Brewer

This session provides an update to ICANN community of the latest plans and achievements of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG)
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Staff Leader: Don Hollander

2017 Nominating Committee public meeting
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Staff Leader: Joette Youkhanna
Staff Facilitator: Joette Youkhanna

To be provided
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Staff Leader: Jaime Hedlund
Staff Facilitator: David Conrad

The fulfillment of the ICG proposal one year later: what has been accomplished, status of the new entity, and health of the IANA functions.
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Staff Leader: Elise Gerich

Are you interested in helping to improve the process used to evaluate how effectively ICANN is fulfilling its commitments? Contribute to the development of the Review Operating Standards that will guide how ICANN specific reviews are conducted. The draft Operating Standards will publish for public comment < https://www.icann.org/public-comments/reviews-standards-2017-10-17-en> on October 17th  2017 and will close on 15th January 2018.
The focus of the session is to bring together community leaders, ICANN Board members, and the wider ICANN community to discuss the draft Operating Standards, focusing particularly on: scope setting, review team selection, and decision-making procedures for ICANN’s specific reviews.
The overall goal is, if possible, to reach community consensus on the draft and move towards implementation. If community consensus seems not feasible, alternative avenues to move forward will be explored.
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Staff Leader: Larisa Gurnick
Staff Facilitator: Lars Hoffmann

Agenda TBD
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Staff Leader: Brad White
Staff Facilitator: James Cole

A review of ICANN regional engagement strategy in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (1 year after ICANN57)
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Staff Leader: Alexandra Kulikova
Staff Facilitator: Magali Jean

This group is an ICANN wide Cross-Community Committee focussed on assisting ICANN in being as ‘Accessible’, with as few barriers to engagement, as possible. Originally evolving from an At-Large Working Group it formalised at ICANN 53 at Buenos Aires and has continued meeting ever since. At this meeting in Abu Dhabi, we will review recent accomplishments in our key objectives, look at what has recently been mentioned in the ‘Diversity’ report from Work Stream 2 of the CCWG - Accountability and continue to focus discussions on how we can assist ICANN to become a ‘Top-Notch' organisation on matters of facilitating and supporting Accessibility.
This is an open meeting and anyone with an interest in accessibility and wishing to help "ICANN to bake into its DNA" consideration, care and proactive design towards excellence in 'Accessibility' in its work is welcome to attend. Agenda: https://community.icann.org/x/oW7wAw
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Staff Leader: Heidi Ullrich
Staff Facilitator: Gisella Gruber

The F2F CCWG IG meeting will address the future structure of the community dialogue on Internet Governance.
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Staff Leader: Nigel Hickson

General session to update community on Privacy and Proxy program implementation
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Staff Leader: Jennifer Gore
Staff Facilitator: Caitlin Tubergen

This is the inaugural Middle East Space session. The session will focus on the ICANN Jurisdiction topic. The agenda is as follows:
- Welcome - Tijani Ben Jemaa [5 minutes]
- Opening Address - Baher Esmat, Vice-President, Global Stakeholder Engagement, Middle East, ICANN [5 minutes]
- Guest Speaker 1 Remarks - Göran Marby, President and CEO, ICANN [7 minutes]
- Introduction of the Thematic Topic
- Tatiana Tropina, Drafting team member of the CCWG Accountability Work Stream 2 on Jurisdiction Sub-­-Group [5 minutes]
- Farzaneh Badii, Chair of the Middle East Space Statement Drafting Team [5 minutes]
- Presentation of the Draft Statement - Hadia El Miniawi, Drafting Team Member [8 minutes]
- Guest Speaker 2 Remarks - Cherine Chalaby, Incoming Chairman of the Board [7 minutes]
- Open Discussion, Modifications, and Adoption of the Statement - Open Floor [45 minutes]
- Closing Remarks - Tijani Ben Jemaa [3 minutes]
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Staff Leader: Baher Esmat
Staff Facilitator: Fahd A. Batayneh

The Budget Working Group is open to all community members with an interest in ICANN Planning and Budgets. Some background knowledge of the topics is helpful for discussion but not required for participation. The Budget Working Group session will be held in two parts, which will include a working lunch in the second part.
Budget Working Group - Part 1 (1030-1200)
In Part 1, we will review and answer questions on the following topics: 1. Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17) Financial Results 2. Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) Changes to Planning Process and Timeline 3. Highlights of the Draft FY19 PTI and IANA Operating Plan and Budgets 4. Reserve Fund Allocation and Replenishment
Budget Working Group – Part 2 (1200-1315)
In Part 2, we will have a working lunch with an in-depth discussion on the following topics: 1. Funding Trends (FY17, FY18, FY19) 2. Long-term Financial Planning
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Staff Leader: Xavier Calvez
Staff Facilitator: Jessica Castillo (

This Public Session will explore and discuss the global Internet Governance agenda making reference to the outcome of the ITU WTDC and looking forward to the 2017 IGF and GCCS conference. It will also consider trends in the Internet Governance Ecosystem post the IANA Transition.
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Staff Leader: Nigel Hickson

ICANN’s APAC Space is a platform where community members from the APAC region gather to raise issues, share views, and coordinate activities.
Agenda: https://community.icann.org/display/GSEAPAC/APAC+Space
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Staff Leader: Jia-Rong Low
Staff Facilitator: Kelvin Wong

This session will provide the community with an update on the Domain Name Registrant work being carried out by GDD, including how information from registrants' contact with ICANN Global Support Center is used to inform the work, the registrants educational series, as well as engagement with the community.
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Staff Leader: Brian Gutterman

This joint meeting between the Board and the Technical Experts Group (TEG) provides an opportunity for the Board to hear in depth about the topics and issues of current or ongoing interest to the TEG, and for the TEG to provide input on some community-wide questions the Board has posed.
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Staff Leader: Cathy Petersen
Staff Facilitator: Steve Conte

Signing of MoU between EURALO and RIPE NCC
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Staff Leader: Jean-Jacques Sahel

The new gTLD Program established auctions as a mechanism of last resort to resolve string contention (Competition between 2 or more applicants for TLDs). Most string contention sets (approximately 90% of sets scheduled for auction) have been resolved through other means before reaching an auction conducted by ICANN through ICANN's authorized auction service provider. It was recognized from the outset that significant funds could accrue as a result of several auctions. As such, these auction proceeds have been reserved and earmarked until the Board authorizes a plan for the appropriate use of the funds. These proceeds are to be considered as an exceptional, one-time source of revenue. The ICANN community has chartered a Cross-Community Working Group (CCWG) which has been tasked to develop a proposal for eventual consideration by the ICANN Board on the mechanism(s) that should be created to allocate the new gTLD Auction Proceeds. This is a face-to-face meeting of the CCWG which is open to anyone interested to observe and participate in. For further information, please see https://community.icann.org/x/yJXDAw. Wiki agenda page: https://community.icann.org/x/tyIhB
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Staff Leader: Marika Konings
Staff Facilitator: Joke Braeken

To be Provided
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Staff Leader: Cyrus Namazi

This is an open session for members and observers of the Middle East Strategy Working Group (AKA MEAC-SWG). The agenda for the session is as follows:
- Welcome and Introductions - Walid Alsaqaf, MEAC-SWG Chair [5 minutes]
- Update and Discussion of Ongoing Implementation - Baher Esmat and Fahd Batayneh, GSE Middle East, ICANN [15 minutes]
- Thematic Topics [40 minutes]
- Topic 1: Enhancing MEAC-SWG's Effectiveness and Impact - Michael Oghia, Zakir Ben Rehman, and Chokri Ben Romdhane [10 minutes]
- Topic 2: Assessing and Strengthening the DNS Industry - Hadia Elminiawi [10 minutes]
- Topic 3: Improving Regional Academic Engagement in ICANN (Hadia ElMiniawi and Habib Yousef [10 minutes]
- Topic 4: Side Effects of Censoring Mobile Apps on the DNS Industry in the Region - Mahdi Taghizadeh and Farzaneh Badii [10 minutes]
- Open Discussion - All [30 minutes]
The session is open for anyone to attend and engage in.
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Staff Leader: Baher Esmat
Staff Facilitator: Fahd A. Batayneh

The new gTLD Program established auctions as a mechanism of last resort to resolve string contention (Competition between 2 or more applicants for TLDs). Most string contention sets (approximately 90% of sets scheduled for auction) have been resolved through other means before reaching an auction conducted by ICANN through ICANN's authorized auction service provider. It was recognized from the outset that significant funds could accrue as a result of several auctions. As such, these auction proceeds have been reserved and earmarked until the Board authorizes a plan for the appropriate use of the funds. These proceeds are to be considered as an exceptional, one-time source of revenue. The ICANN community has chartered a Cross-Community Working Group (CCWG) which has been tasked to develop a proposal for eventual consideration by the ICANN Board on the mechanism(s) that should be created to allocate the new gTLD Auction Proceeds. This is a face-to-face meeting of the CCWG which is open to anyone interested to observe and participate in. For further information, please see https://community.icann.org/x/yJXDAw. Wiki agenda page: https://community.icann.org/x/tyIhB
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Staff Leader: Marika Konings
Staff Facilitator: Joke Braeken

Moderators
Section 1: Thomas Rickert (eco Internet Industry Association, CCWG Co-Chair)
Section 2: Benedicto Fonseca Filho (GAC Representative, Brazil; Director of the Department of Scientific and Technological Themes (DCT) Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Itamaraty)

Panel:
Farzaneh Badii (NCSG)
Becky Burr (ICANN Board; Neustar)
John Laprise (ALAC (NARALO Representative)
David McAuley (RySG; RySG designated member to the CCWG Accountability)
Milton Mueller (Internet Governance Project, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy)
Greg Shatan (Rapporteur, CCWG-Accountability Jurisdiction Subgroup
President, Intellectual Property Constituency)

1. Discussion of CCWG-Accountability WS2 Jurisdiction Recommendations
- Moderator introduction on the status of the CCWG-Accountability consideration of recommendations
- Recommendations regarding licenses from U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Asset Controls
- Recommendations regarding Choice of Laws clause in ICANN’s Registry/Registrar Agreements
- Questions

2. Discussion of Broader Community Concerns Based on Application of Laws of ICANN’s Place of Jurisdiction
- Moderator introduction of the topic
- Discussion points:
o Whether ICANN’s reliance on California law means that US jurisdiction controls ICANN?
o Proposals for alternative solutions that do not require ICANN’s move from U.S.?
o How to avoid fragmentation of Internet or increased local governmental involvement in DNS management?
- Questions
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Staff Leader: Amy Stathos
Staff Facilitator: Samantha Eisner

Agenda TBD
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Staff Leader: Brad White
Staff Facilitator: James Cole