This plenary session will examine the evolving landscape of domain name registration data access and disclosure, particularly in the context of increasingly stringent data protection frameworks following the implementation of GDPR. These changes have significantly impacted Internet governance, law enforcement, intellectual property protection, and industry operations.Bringing together perspectives from across the multistakeholder community, the session will explore key challenges and emerging opportunities in registration data access and disclosure, with a focus on (1) Overall landscape: Developments before and after GDPR, key challenges, and future directions, (2) Public registration data: The role of RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol), its benefits, and ongoing efforts, and (3) Non-public registration data: Progress of the Registration Data Request Service (RDRS), participation models, and related initiatives such as Project Jake.The session will feature experts from ICANN, industry, the technical community, and law enforcement, offering practical insights and diverse viewpoints. The session aims to foster dialogue on how to balance privacy and public interest, and to advance more effective and trusted mechanisms for registration data access and disclosure."

• Jo-Fan Yu, Managing Director & CEO, TWNIC

• Steve Crocker, President, Edgemoor Research Institute
• Samiran Gupta, Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement and Managing Director, APAC, ICANN
• Crystal Peterson, Senior Director, Registry Operations and Account Management, GoDaddy
• Gabriel Andrews, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI (inviting, virtual)
• Akinori Maemura, Chief Policy Officer, JPNIC

This session will bring together perspectives on DNS security and resiliency across three connected dimensions: technical initiatives, policy and compliance developments, and community collaboration. It will cover efforts to strengthen infrastructure and operational resilience, recent developments on DNS Abuse across the gTLD and ccTLD space, and collaborative approaches such as Trusted Notifier, with the aim of highlighting practical ways to support a more secure and resilient Internet.

• Alban Kwan, Co-Founder & CEO, Trusted Notifier Network

• Kenny Huang, Chairman, TWNIC
• Charmaine Lim, Manager of Contractual Compliance, ICANN (virtual)
• Shoko Nakai, Incident Coordinator, Incident Response Group of JPCERT
• Rishi Maudhub, Chief Commercial Officer, CleanDNS

This session will explore how the Internet’s unique identifier systems may evolve amid new gTLD expansion, IPv6 development, and the rise of alternative naming technologies such as blockchain-based systems. It will consider whether domain names, IP addresses, and the public DNS remain essential to a stable and interoperable Internet, and how new forms of identifiers might affect existing governance and technical models. The discussion will also address the importance of a single authoritative root and how future identifier systems should be managed globally to preserve interoperability, coordination, and trust.

• Edmon Chung, CEO, DotAsia

• Jia Rong Low, Director General, APNIC
• Bob Mountain, D3
• Jim Lin (Gann-Jiun Lin), CEO, Aimichia Technology Co., Ltd., Senior advisor, Taiwan Association for Blockchain Ecosystem Innovation (TABEI)
• David Liu, CISO, LINE

Focus on importance of multistakeholder participation and discussions about how this can be realised

Expanding from last year's discussion on TW representation in different ICANN SO/ACs, this can be broadened to bring in new voices (e.g. IXPs, cloud service providers). We can tap on synergies with TWNOG happening in the same week. Also, youth participation has been a focus in the past couple years, we can integrate this aspect in this session.

Discussions can also go beyond just the ICANN space, and overall participation in regional and global IG spaces.

Potentially to include an example topic (e.g. AI governance; DNS abuse mitigation) to illustrate the importance of multistakeholder participation in policymaking.

• Joy Chan,  Deputy CEO, TWNIC

• Samiran Gupta, Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement and Managing Director, APAC, ICANN
• Charles Mok, Research Scholar, Global Digital Policy Incubator, Standford University
• Ken-Ying Tseng, Partner, Lee and Li
• Mei-Ching CHEN, Section Chief of the Internet Communication Office, National Communications Commission (NCC)