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ICANN83 Prague Agenda
Agenda
Prague, Czech Republic 09 June 2025 - 12 June 2025
Introduction
Preparation Information for GAC Members
GAC Hybrid Meeting at ICANN83
Prague, Czech Republic
(GAC Members login recommended)
The ICANN83 Policy Forum will be held in Prague, Czech Republic from Monday 9 June through Thursday 12 June 2025. The 4-day meeting will be conducted as a hybrid event to accommodate both in-person and virtual attendance. The associated GAC meeting schedule has been developed by the committee to leverage that hybrid format.
The Policy Forum will present many opportunities for government attendee discussions and deliberations with time for the committee’s various policy and advice priorities, and bandwidth for attendees to participate in important cross-community endeavors. During the meeting, member representatives will continue their work on several key topics that have attracted priority attention from governments throughout the last several years. These topics will include (1) discussions regarding the program for the next round of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs); (2) registration information and data protection policies; and (3) DNS abuse mitigation measures.
As the committee continues to evolve its growing emphasis on capacity development for GAC delegates, the Prague meeting will incorporate informational and knowledge building sessions during the meeting. During the session on the 9th of June (Monday morning) the meeting agenda will feature a capacity development session focused on the New gTLD Program Next Round. The capacity development session will focus on the applicant’s journey and the Applicant Guidebook (AGB), and will help prepare GAC members for substantive discussions during the plenary session that will follow.
Much of the GAC’s remaining program later in the week will be devoted to the drafting and preparations of the ICANN83 GAC Communiqué.
GAC Meeting Schedule:
- The GAC ICANN83 block schedule
- The Overall ICANN83 block schedule
- The complete schedule of ICANN83 Meeting "Prep Week" Webinars is available at: https://icann83.sched.com/
Health and Safety
ICANN org monitors local health and safety risks in addition to relevant advisories and guidance from governmental and related public agencies. ICANN also works closely with local partners supporting the event to develop and implement comprehensive event safety plans and procedures for a safe, healthy and productive meeting. More details on health and safety measures for ICANN83 are available under “FAQ” section at: https://meetings.icann.org/en/meetings/icann83/#faq
This information will be updated as events warrant.
Event Registration - (required for in-person attendees)
Any GAC delegates planning to attend ICANN83 in-person will be required to pre-register for the meeting no later than 8 June 2025. This will allow the ICANN Meetings Team to allocate on-site resources effectively, provides attendee access to extra Policy forum program news and facilitates attendance-taking by GAC Support staff. Registration for the meeting is now open.
- Sign into Your ICANN Account or create an account here.
- Register by selecting the Meeting Registration tile.
- Click on the Registration link.(The meeting registration can also be accomplished by accessing this page directly - https://meetings.icann.org/en/meetings/icann83/)
GAC Support staff will reach out regularly to the full GAC mailing list to remind all potential delegate attendees (both in-person and remote) to register for the meeting. Your meeting registration will also help support a follow-up “pilot” attendance taking effort by the GAC Support staff during the Prague meeting. The staff conducted an initial pilot effort during ICANN82 and will apply certain lessons-learned to a second effort during ICANN83 in hopes to record all remote participants attending the meeting sessions.
At the bottom of this page, GAC Support staff has created individual web links to each GAC plenary session during ICANN83 to enable attendees to access session connection information and supporting documentation as they are made available.
Calendar Invitations:
It has become standard GAC practice to directly email calendar invitations to all GAC participants for all individual GAC sessions, community plenary (cross-community) sessions and notable community working group sessions. This will be done again for the hybrid format ICANN83 Policy Forum.
The initial emailed calendar invitations for individual sessions are typically transmitted to GAC representatives and delegates a week or so before each public meeting. Calendar invitations will include the link to each official ICANN83 session web page. Participants will need to click on the link to view the connection details for the session.
For ICANN83, invitations are expected to be sent during the ICANN Prep Week 27-29 May).
GAC Briefings
[Until the start of the ICANN83 meeting, this content section will be updated from time to time with web links as various pre-session written briefings and other materials become available.]
In preparation for GAC Public Meetings, GAC topic leads and Support Staff have traditionally prepared a number of written topical briefings for GAC members that provide (1) information about the objectives for each session topic, (2) updates on recent developments regarding the topic, (3) previews of the proposed session agendas and (4) links to other resources of information about the session subject matter. These briefings are supported by other ICANN org staff, as appropriate, to ensure factual accuracy.
Pre-ICANN83 GAC Webinars
Prior to the ICANN83 Policy Forum, GAC participants will have the opportunity to attend two (2) onboarding webinars dedicated to informing new participants about GAC operational basics and preparing attendees for their first ICANN meeting.
The first webinar scheduled, on 22 May, is designed to help new GAC participants understand the basic operational functions of the committee.
The second webinar, scheduled for 26 May, will share with new committee participants the key pieces of information that they might find helpful for them to prepare for the Policy Forum and to participate effectively.
Both webinars will offer basic informational foundations useful for all participants. Links to both webinar events can be found below in the “agenda” section of this GAC ICANN83 Meeting page.
Other Pre-meeting Calls and Meetings:
ICANN Webinar on High-Level Guide to the draft Applicant Guidebook on Tuesday, 3 June at 04:00 - 05:30 UTC and 16:30 - 18:00UTC; to register please visit; https://icann.zoom.us/meeting/register/V5IVFCXVT9qK_f1exR-cGQ
Final Bilateral Prep Call for GAC on Tuesday, 3 June at 13:00UTC; link to call recording to be provided.
Written Briefings
Applicable individual briefings for each of the scheduled GAC sessions at ICANN83 may be accessed via links provided below on this page in the “Materials” section of each session link.
Briefings are typically circulated to the GAC Membership about two weeks prior to the start of the public meeting and are planned to be made available on or about 28 May for the ICANN83 Public Meeting:
- Applicable individual Briefings for each of the scheduled GAC plenary sessions can be accessed via links provided on this page in the “Materials” section of each session link.
- All written briefings for each of the scheduled sessions may also be downloaded directly from this page. Watch this space for links to be posted approximately two weeks prior to the start of the public meeting:
- All ICANN83 written briefings together as a ZIP file
- Individual ICANN83 written briefings as a single PDF file
As developments warrant, GAC Support staff will provide updated materials to various session links on this web page right up until the start of the ICANN83 Policy Forum.
Other Resource Briefing Documents:
In addition to the resources on this web page, GAC Support staff is compiling preparation materials to help attendees fully utilize the remote connection services and resources that are being provided by ICANN org for the ICANN83 Policy Forum. That documentation is developed for every GAC meeting in the form of a “one-stop” reference manual that consolidates various notices and reminders about meeting planning and logistics. A web link to the ICANN org document will be posted on this page after an email notice is made to GAC Members and Observers.
As they become available, this web page section will also provide links to preview and briefing documents prepared by the GNSO Support staff and the ICANN org Policy Development Support team.
- GAC ICANN83 Community Forum Logistics Details
- ICANN83 Policy Outlook Report
- GNSO Policy Briefing ICANN83
For each ICANN Public Meeting, ICANN org also publishes a general meeting guide for meeting attendees. You may find more details at the following link:
Please contact GAC Support Staff at gac-staff@icann.org if you have questions about accessing any of these briefing documents.
Individual GAC ICANN83 Agenda Sessions:
All GAC plenary session entries below reflect the time of the session in the “UTC” time zone.
Where appropriate, and as they become available, each GAC session link below is accompanied by links to a preparatory session briefing and other materials that are associated with the session. After the ICANN83 Meeting concludes, links to meeting session recordings will also be added to each session page link.
Please contact GAC Support Staff at gac-staff@icann.org if you have questions regarding any of these session preparations or arrangements.