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Launched in 2016, the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy (APIGA) marks its 10th anniversary in 2026. Co-hosted by ICANN and the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA), and organised in collaboration with APNIC, DotAsia Organisation, the Internet Society (ISOC), and APTLD, APIGA targets youth aged 18–35 from across the Asia Pacific region.  Over nine annual editions, APIGA (aka “Regional APIGA”) has built a steady pipeline of Internet governance practitioners. Past data shows that one in four APIGA alumni continue to participate in Internet governance forums locally, regionally, and globally. The Regional APIGA maintains an average acceptance rate of the top … Read more

At-Large Meets ICANN Contractual Compliance and NetBeacon Institute  Date: 12 May 2026 Time: 12:00 UTC Location: Online (Zoom) Description: DNS Abuse mitigation remains as a key focus area for the ALAC and At-Large community. It is generally accepted that DNS Abuse cannot be eliminated. However, it is also clear that it can be mitigated and such mitigation efforts may take many forms and are often driven by various parties either working collaboratively or complementarily to bring about impact to protect end users against harm perpetrated by malicious domain name registrations.In prior meetings with the Security, Stability, and Resiliency team under the … Read more

A uniform way to handle diacritics in domain names, similar to IDN Variants, has been a long-standing demand from several parts of At-Large, including the Canadian French-speaking territories. The asymmetry between Diacritics and Variants arose from the way the Latin Generation Panel has chosen to treat diacritic labels–as distinctly separate code points, and not as equivalents as with variant labels–mostly on account of security and confusability issues. In order for the end-user community to treat Latin Diacritics and Latin regular ASCII labels in special cases (eg. to treat Montreal and Montréal as the same thing), a policy needed to be … Read more

As a community-based organization, continuous outreach and engagement are essential to ICANN’s work. ICANN carries out these efforts via various activities, including through its Supporting Organizations (SOs) and Advisory Committees (ACs). In the case of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), outreach and engagement efforts in APAC falls toAPRALO– the Asian, Australasian, and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization. And one such effort by the APRALO is the APRALO ICANN Readouts. An APRALO ICANN Readout calls APAC community members to examine topics discussed at an ICANN public meeting, with the goal of mapping implications for individual Internet end users in the region, … Read more