ICANN Update Jia-Rong LOW| Head, Strategy & Initiatives, APAC| Feb 2015
| 2 Overview ICANN Asia Pacific Hub Updates from ICANN52 New gTLDs Internationalised Domain Names Universal Acceptance
ICANN Asia Pacific Hub
| 4 APAC Hub Established August 2013: 24 staff Functions: Global Stakeholder Engagement; Contractual Compliance; Registrar/Registry Services; SSR Engagement; Legal; Comms; Ops, Finance, HR Customer Service Channel
New gTLD Update from ICANN52
| new gTLDs Delegated (6 Feb)
| 7 Programme Timeline
| 8 What’s next for new gTLD programme?
| 9 What’s next for new gTLD programme?
IDN TLD Program Update
| 11 Status of Generation Panels
| 12 LGR Specification and Toolset LGR machine-readable specifications at Toolset functional priority Create LGR Use LGR Manage LGRs Open source LGR Tool Code Point Rules Variant Rules WLE Rules
Universal Acceptance
| 14 Formation of Universal Acceptance Steering Group Community members interested in Universal Acceptance convened workshop on 22 January 2015 Submitted letter to ICANN Board Chair to form Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Advocacy group, not policy oriented group Made up of ICANN community and non- ICANN community experts UASG to provide guidance to the ICANN team and work alongside ICANN staff Active volunteer participation is expected from community
| 15 Universal Acceptance Steering Group Ongoing Process: Defining structure, Formalizing charter, Developing marketing/outreach plans etc Details to follow. Watch this space: l-acceptance en l-acceptance en Need for Asia Pacific community participation Join the discussion list: discuss discuss
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