☎ ENS Public Goods – Weekly Meeting: 12pm ET/5pm UTC, Thursday – Term 6

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Agenda

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• Welcome ALL
• Jam corner with the PG band aka @Sov
• Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
• Vyper grant announcement
• ICANN research discussion
• European Decentralisation Institute presentation
• Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc

1. Welcome ALL

2. Jam corner with the PG band aka @Sov

• Tribute to Nirvana

3. Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest

• L2 primary names proposal has officially passed, and it’s active on the protocol level
• Working group spending reports are out.
• ETHGlobal NYC is happening, and ENS will be there for the hackathon
  • Applications are still open
• .locker proposal is still active

4. Vyper grant announcement

• The grant awarded to Vyper was announced.
• It is the fourth strategic grant allocated this year.
• The grant has matching funding from the EF

5. ICANN research discussion

• The Public Goods Working Group is funding research to ensure ENS is well-involved and represented in ICANN discussions
• Emily’s strategic research frees up the team for in-person engagement at ICANN meetings
• The .locker transfer and partnership with Orange Domains resulted from ICANN engagement.
• ENS is positioned as the only player operating in Web3 without creating potential name collisions in the DNS
• The next ICANN meeting, the annual general meeting before the new gTLD program kicks off, will be in Dublin in November
• After the grant is announced, there will be coordination with Emily to provide an overview of past and future key dates
• The grant supports ENS’s deeper engagement within the ICANN structure
• ICANN policy does not give preferential treatment to alternative TLD operators who ignore ICANN’s rules.
• There is concern within ICANN about name collisions arising from independently created TLDs

6. European Decentralisation Institute presentation

• European Decentralization Institute, a think tank dedicated to advancing decentralization for digital Europe, society, and economy.
• Works closely with the European Commission and received an initial grant from the Ethereum Foundation.
• Focuses on AI, finance, energy, and identity.
• Aims to research decentralized identity and promote the message of the next level decentralization of identity in a policy brief for senior policymakers.
• Wants to take identity cross-border and make it interoperable, addressing the centralized elements in the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet).
• Advocates for privacy by design and citizen-centric approaches to identity.
• Engage with policymakers, those working in government and writing regulations, rather than just politicians.
• Thomas and Cap offer help on this matter to make ENS the central piece of digital identity.

7. Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc

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