The ICANN community convened in Panamá City, Panamá during the last week in June for the ICANN 62 Policy Forum.

On May 25th, the European Union’s GDPR became enforceable and ICANN’s first-ever Temporary Specification came into effect.

On December 6th, Chairwoman of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin submitted a letter to Cherine Chalaby and Goran Marby of ICANN, expressing — in no uncertain terms — the challenges to and expectations of the organization in light of the impending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law that will come into force May of 2018.