Report on ICANN 63 Read-out
Ottawa, Canada
Nov. 28, 2018

Organized by Telecommunities Canada (Marita Moll) and NARALO (Glenn McKnight)

On November 28, Telecommunities Canada and NARALO organized the second ICANN read-out in Ottawa at 25One Community, a community hub in downtown Ottawa, Canada. It was a 1 1/2 hour session with 15 people in attendance and another 17 participating remotely via the ISOC livestream channel and ICANN's adobe room. The program included speakers from ICANN staff, the Government of Canada and ICANN community members. 

 As not all of the attendees and livestream participants were familiar with ICANN's structure, the session began with a presentation by Joe Catapano, from ICANN's Stakeholder Engagement Team, who had traveled to Ottawa to be on-site for the event. Joe described the ICANN structure and the multistakeholder system and answered questions re: interaction between ICANN and IGF.

On specific ICANN63 issues, NCSG Chair Stephanie Perrin provided an update on privacy protection for domain name registrants at ICANN and the status of Whois now that the GDPR is in force. Continuing on privacy protection issues, Charles Taillefer, the Director of the Privacy and Data Protection Directorate at Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada, explained how privacy legislation in Canada was being evaluated to ensure "essential equivalence" with GDPR. 

The session continued with a presentation from Luisa Paez, Senior Policy Analyst in the International Telecommunications and Internet Policy Directorate at ISED and 

With respect to promotion, we reached out through the NARALO and At Large lists, various lists associated with ISOC, the National Capital Freenet and the Telecommunities Canada list. CIRA agreed to promote the event through it's internal mailing. We connected with various contacts at the two local universities, local advocacy groups, two political parties and our own personal networks. The event was also promoted through an advertisement on the events page of the local newspaper and on social media.