1. ICANN Update Jia-Rong LOW| Head, Strategy & Initiatives, APAC| Feb 2015

2. | 2 Overview  ICANN Asia Pacific Hub  Updates from ICANN52  New gTLDs  Internationalised Domain Names  Universal Acceptance

3. ICANN Asia Pacific Hub

4. | 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

5. New gTLD Update from ICANN52

6. | 6 500+ new gTLDs Delegated (6 Feb)

7. | 7 Programme Timeline

8. | 8 What’s next for new gTLD programme?

9. | 9 What’s next for new gTLD programme?

10. IDN TLD Program Update

11. | 11 Status of Generation Panels

12. | 12 LGR Specification and Toolset  LGR machine-readable specifications at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-davies-idntables  Toolset functional priority  Create LGR  Use LGR  Manage LGRs  Open source LGR Tool Code Point Rules Variant Rules WLE Rules

13. Universal Acceptance

14. | 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. | 15 Universal Acceptance Steering Group  Ongoing Process:  Defining structure,  Formalizing charter,  Developing marketing/outreach plans etc  Details to follow. Watch this space:  https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/universa l-acceptance-2012-02-25-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/universa l-acceptance-2012-02-25-en  Need for Asia Pacific community participation  Join the discussion list:  https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua- discuss https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua- discuss

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