APAC Space at ICANN58 Copenhagen

You are invited to participate in ICANN’s APAC Space – where community members from the APAC region gather to raise issues, share views, and coordinate activities.

In this face to face meeting, we invite you to share your views during the community-led discussion on facilitating APAC participation in ICANN’s policy development processes through the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (PDP). We are pleased to have the PDP Working Group Chair, Avri Doria, join us in Copenhagen to introduce the PDP Community Comment. 

Also in this session, look forward to:

• Breakfast with the Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) - Discover how the RySG is structured and does its policy work.
• Preliminary results of the APAC Space Survey 2017 (open till 8 March 2017).
• General Discussion on APAC Developments – Email discuss@tld.asia to give your input in advance.

Remote participation is available; please see the joining instructions below for your reference. We hope you’ll be able to join us!

Date: 15 March 2017, Wednesday
Time: 08:30 CET | 07:30 UTC | 15:30 SGT | Time zone converter
Link to Adobe Connect: https://participate.icann.org/cph58-hallb52
Add to calendar 

Agenda

1. Welcome Remarks
   • Kelvin Wong, Head, Outreach and Public Responsibility, ICANN APAC
   • APAC Community Lead Edmon Chung, CEO, DotAsia
2. Breakfast Meeting with Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) (30 mins)
   • Community Discussion on APAC Participation in RySG
3. Self-Introduction by APAC community members (10 mins)
   • To also raise any issues to discuss in ‘APAC developments’ under Section 8
4. Update on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process by Steve Chan, Senior Policy Manager, ICANN (10 mins)
   • Recap of General Overview, Aims & Objectives for Newcomers
   • Current Status
5. Introduction to New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Community Comment by Avri Doria, PDP Working Group Co-Chair (15 mins)
   • Update on Community Comment Round 1
   • Introduction to Community Comment Round 2
   • Steps to participate in Community Comment
6. Q&A / Community Discussion moderated by Edmon Chung, CEO, DotAsia (20 mins)
7.  Preliminary Results of APAC Space Survey 2017 by Joyce Chen, GSE Strategy & Development Senior Manager, ICANN (10 mins)
8. General Discussion on APAC Developments moderated by Edmon Chung, CEO, DotAsia (20 mins)
   • Update on IDN Implementation Guidelines Public Comment
9. AOB (2 mins)
   • Next APAC Space web conference

Questions? Write to apachub@icann.org

Joining Instructions

Link to Adobe Connect: https://participate.icann.org/cph58-hallb52

• After clicking the link to enter the Adobe Connect room, please choose 'Enter as a Guest', type in your first and last name, and click 'Enter Room’.
• Upon logging into Adobe Connect, a pop up window will provide you the option to Listen Only or Dial Out to your Phone.  Enter your Phone Number* (Remember to change the Country Code if needed).
• After joining the call, as a courtesy to others and the presenters, please MUTE your phone.  This can be done by selecting *6 on your keypad.  To UNMUTE select *6 again.

If you are unable to log into Adobe Connect and can only join via phone:

• List of International Dial In Numbers: go.icann.org/2mkk1ns
• Participant Passcode: 645 127 3995