The Voldeta team attended ICANN83 Policy Forum in Prague, with particular attention to discussions related to the WSIS+20 review process and its implications for global Internet governance.

A key focus of ICANN83 was the preparation for the 20-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20), which will assess the effectiveness of the current multistakeholder governance model. During the forum, ICANN community groups discussed how ICANN and the broader technical community should contribute to the upcoming UN-led review, including the framing of messages around the role of the private sector, technical coordination bodies, and bottom-up policy development.

The sessions addressed concrete questions: how Internet governance responsibilities should be represented in the WSIS+20 process, how to preserve the multistakeholder model in intergovernmental discussions, and how technical coordination functions such as naming and numbering can remain insulated from political fragmentation.

Participants also discussed coordination between ICANN, the RIRs, and other technical organisations in shaping common positions ahead of the WSIS+20 milestones.

For Voldeta, attending the ICANN83 was important in understanding how high-level governance debates may influence the environment in which address resources and registry systems operate over the long term.