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[ICANN] Weekly Digest of ICANN.org News & Announcements --------------------------------------------------------------- [Participate Now in the Sunrise and Trademark Claims Survey]( LOS ANGELES - 06 September 2018 - The Sunrise and Trademark Claims survey is now available for individuals interested in sharing their feedback about these Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs). The Sunrise and Trademark Claims RPMs were adopted as part of ICANN's New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) program. This feedback will be essential to the evaluation of these Rights Protection Mechanisms and ICANN's data collection efforts related to them. We invite you to take the survey if you or your company registered a domain name in new gTLDs, attempted to register a domain name in new gT... [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ICANN Board to Hold Public Board Meeting During Genval Workshop]( LOS ANGELES – 6 September 2018 – The ICANN Board will be holding a public Board meeting during its upcoming workshop in Genval, Belgium, which will be taking place from 14-16 September 2018. The agenda of the meeting is provided below. Date Time (UTC) Session 16 September 08:00 – 09:00 Public Board Meeting The meeting will be in English only. The format will be a listen-only session via Adobe Connect. Adobe Connect Link: Participant Code: 5542211258 Additional access numbers:... [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Next Steps On Reviews]( Open Date: 05 September 2018 Close Date: 05 October 2018 Originating Organization: Multistakeholder Strategy and Strategic Initiatives (MSSI) Categories/Tags: Reviews/Improvements, reviews timeline, Specific Reviews, Organizational Reviews, accountability and transparency Brief Overview: This consultation is seeking input from the community on next steps on reviews. The proposal "Consultation Paper on Next Steps on Reviews" [PDF, 120 KB] intends to confirm the way forward with the community, based on ICANN organization's understanding ... [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [BROWSE ALL NEWS]( From the ICANN Blog --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chair's Blog: A Preview of the Genval Board Workshop]( From 14-16 September, the ICANN Board will be convening in Genval, Belgium, a town just south of Brussels, to hold our fifth workshop of calendar 2018. Much like our Vancouver workshop and Panama City workshop, the Board will be covering quite a lot of ground within a rather short amount of time. We'll be discussing a wide range of key topics ICANN org and the community are tackling, such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the upcoming Root Zone Key Signing Key (KSK Rollover). We'll also be holding a public Board meeting, which I highly encourage you to j... [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [SSR2 Review Team Re-Starts, On-Boards New Members, Updates Terms of Reference]( The ICANN Security, Stability, and Resiliency of the Domain Name System Review Team (SSR2) reconvened after being paused since October 2017 and held an in-person meeting from 22-24 August. The review team has on-boarded new members, selected leadership, reviewed completed work to date, and updated its scope/terms of reference. We also are refreshing our workplan and outreach plan, and moving forward with our substantive work. The review team welcomes input on all of its activities via email to input-to-ssr2rt@icann.org (publicly archived list). As the review team continues its fact-finding... [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Moving Forward with RDAP]( On 31 August 2018 we've posted for Public Comment a set of documents that represent a step forward in the community's work on the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP). Developed by the technical community as an eventual replacement for the WHOIS protocol, RDAP enables users to access current registration data. RDAP has several advantages over the current protocol, including support for internationalization, secure access to data, and the ability to provide differentiated access to registration data. The ICANN organization has worked with the community in a pilot program to develop a ba... [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [BROWSE ALL BLOG ARTICLES]( This message was sent to {EMAIL} from: ICANN | 12025 Waterfront Drive Suite 300 | Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536 [Manage Your Subscription](