APAC Space@ICANN84 (28 Oct 2025)- Discussion Notes Now Available

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Nov 10, 2025, 6:05:29 AM11/10/25
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Dear APAC Space members,

 

The discussion notes from our 28 October 2025 APAC Space session at ICANN84 Dublin is now available on our community wiki page. For convenient reference, they are also appended below. These notes are in addition to the slide deck and the session recording which was shared earlier.

 

To note, the APAC Regional Office is still calling for community input on the draft FY26-30 APAC Regional Plan until 16 November 2025. We welcome your feedback at apa...@icann.org .

 

Thank you!

 

Regards,

Yien-Chyn Tan

Director, Stakeholder Engagement, APAC

ICANN

 

APAC Space at ICANN84 Dublin was held on 28 October 2025. The session was attended by about 90 in-person and 104 remote participants respectively. Four ICANN Board Members were in attendance – Amitabh Singhal, Chris Buckridge, Chris Chapman, and Sajid Rahman.

 

Yien-Chyn Tan (Director, Stakeholder Engagement, APAC, ICANN) moderated the session, and key topics covered were highlights from the FY25 APAC Regional Report, as well as an overview of the draft FY26-30 APAC Regional Plan. Specifically for the Regional Plan, the APAC Regional Office is currently calling for community input until 16 November 2025. 

 

The session also featured sharing from outgoing Board member Chris Chapman, and a presentation by Steve Crocker (President, Edgemoor Research Institute (ERI)) and Jo-Fan Yu (Managing Director, Taiwan Network Information Centre (TWNIC)) on  “Project Jake and its Pilot System” – a pilot domain registration data disclosure system.  

 

During the AOB segment, Michaela Nakayama Shapiro (Programme Officer-Censorship, Article 19) called for APAC registries and registrars participation in a DNS abuse research conducted by Article 19. The session ended with a community discussion segment facilitated by Phavanhna Douangboupha (General Manager, Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association (APTLD)). 

 

More details as below. 

 

FY25 APAC Regional Report Highlights

  • Samiran Gupta (Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement and Managing Director, APAC, ICANN) presented highlights from the FY25 APAC Regional Report. 
    • Key events from FY25 include the APAC DNS Forum 2025, UA Day 2025, and APAC Space at ICANN Meetings.
    • Several key projects were achieved in FY25, with top highlights being the expansion of the APIGA program, as well as the APAC community’s significant participation in public comment proceedings as well as taking on community leadership roles. 

 

FY26-30 APAC Regional Plan

  • The APAC Regional Office is calling for community input on the draft FY26-30 APAC Regional Plan by 16 November 2025. Feedback to be sent through apa...@icann.org . 
  • Yien Chyn illustrated the process of drafting the regional plan, adopting focus areas from the ICANN FY26-30 Strategic Plan. The APAC Regional Office has determined that Strategic Objective 2 (“Enhance Organizational Excellence”) will not be a key engagement area for the APAC region. 
  • Samiran shared key engagement areas for FY26-30:
    • Strategic Objective 1– Developing APAC community participation and leaders; ongoing communications on ICANN’s multistakeholder model; monitor legislative initiatives in the APAC region. 
    • Strategic Objective 3– Engagement on the New gTLD Program: Next Round; IDN implementation work and UA activities/adoption; assessing potential impacts of new technologies on the DNS
    • Strategic Objective 4– Hold ICANN led events, speak and engage at community-led events and local/regional Internet governance events; deploy and renew L-root instances and resolve L-root incidents

 

Project Jake and its Pilot System

  • Project Jake is a collaboration between ERI and TWNIC, launched in August 2025. The project is now in pilot phase, focusing on the disclosure of domain registration data aspects, and targets to release its beta version by spring 2026. 
  • The system focuses on pre-verification of requestors, and hopes to achieve consistent implementation of data disclosure for both data holders (registries and registrars) and requestors. 
  • TWNIC is currently calling for pilot partners by 31 March 2026. 

 

Community Discussion

  • Several participants shared their general sentiments on the success of the APIGA program and its expansion efforts, and queried on upcoming plans for the Regional APIGA 2026 as well as further expansion to other economies (e.g. Papua New Guinea) in Cycle 2 (Oct 2025-Mar 2026). 
    • Yien Chyn shared that Cycle 2 expansion will extend to more economies, and the APAC Regional Office is happy to work with interested local hosts.
    • Also, ICANN and co-host KISA, together with other partners are in discussions on the design and planning for Regional APIGA 2026, taking into consideration reflections from the first upgraded/expanded Regional APIGA 2025. 
  • Pitinan Kooarmornpatana (IDN Programs Director, ICANN) shared that the public comment proceeding for “String Similarity Evaluation Data for New gTLD Program: Next Round” is currently open until 4 December 2025. Also, the UA Day 2026 call for proposals is currently open until 9 November 2025. 
    • Pitinan encouraged public comment input, and proposal submissions respectively from the APAC community. 
  • Akinori Maemura (JPNIC) asked about the difference between SSAD, RDRS, and Project Jake. Steve Crocker indicated that Project Jake is a distributed system with flexibility to adapt to local policies and increased predictability on how registration data will be disclosed. Also, Project Jake aims to cover more domain names (through partnering ccTLDs in addition to gTLDs).

 

From: <dis...@apacspace.asia> on behalf of ICANN APAC Hub <apa...@icann.org>
Reply to: "dis...@apacspace.asia" <dis...@apacspace.asia>
Date: Monday, 3 November 2025 at 11:35 AM
To: "dis...@apacspace.asia" <dis...@apacspace.asia>
Subject: [Ext] [APAC Space] APAC Space@ICANN84 (28 Oct 2025) Session Materials

 

Dear APAC Space members,

 

Thank you very much for your active participation at our recent APAC Space session at ICANN84 Dublin, on 28 October 2025. The presentation slides [icann-community.atlassian.net], photos [drive.google.com], and session recording [icann.zoom.us] are now available on our community wiki page [icann-community.atlassian.net].

 

We will also share the discussion notes shortly. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you again at the next ICANN meeting!

 

Best,

Melody

Stakeholder Engagement Regional Specialist, APAC

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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