[Advisors] ICANN76 - Mar.11-16 - info

[Marita Moll]

Hello advisors. ICANN will be holding another hybrid meeting (Cancun, 
for those who are going in person) starting later this week. This is a 
working meeting during which participants will be concentrating on 
moving forward some of the outstanding complex policy files. One of 
these is the highly anticipated new round of generic top level domains. 
This process allows interested parties to buy top level domains (for 
example .telecommunities) for very big bucks. And ICANN does generate 
large sums of money this way. There is an article with a bit more 
information about this process and what is expected:

*https://circleid.com/posts/20 
230307-new-gtld-availability-inching-closer-to-reality*

In preparation for this meeting, I have been involved in organizing one 
of the few "public fora" in this meeting. It will be an information 
sharing event about a U.N. process called WSIS+20 -- the 20th 
anniversary of the original recognition of and definition of a 
multistakeholder process that evolved into the Internet Governance Forum 
and the ICANN multistakeholder system. I will be attending the meeting 
virtually but will be an intervener in this event on behalf of At Large 
and endusers.

Registration for the meeting is open 
https://meetings.icann.org/en/icann76 
<https://meetings.icann.org/en/icann76>

The WSIS+20 public forum is on Wednesday Mar. 15 10:30-12:00 EST. I will 
post a link to the livestream  when it becomes available.

Marita


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