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[pacnog] ICANN meeting underway this week
Hi all,
Those at PacNOG 3 last week heard of the ICANN meeting being held
this week. For others on the list just wanted to give this heads up
in case you weren't aware:
The 29th meeting of ICANN is underway in Puerto Rico this week.
Participation is free to anyone who wishes to either attend
physically or remotely.
For those interested the meeting website http://
sanjuan2007.icann.org/ would be a good starting point.
There's also audio/video streaming of the some of the sessions.
Some issues and events at the meeting include:
-Progress on a creating a policy to introduce new generic top-level
domains (the part of web addresses after the dot -- like .com or .info)
-Update on the testing process of introducing Internationalized
Domain Names (IDNs) to the Internet.
-A tutorial on IPv6 -- a major expansion of the Internet Protocol
address space so that the number unique addresses available globally
is increased dramatically (from about 4.3 billion available with the
current IPv4 to about 340 trillion trillion trillion).
-Further discussions of ICANN's Registrar Accreditation Agreements
(RAA) and the Accreditation process, arising out of the RegisterFly
collapse.
-The completion of the creation of the global Regional At Large
Organization (RALO) structure with the signing of the fifth and final
RALO agreement -- this one with the North American region. RALOs are
the main forum and coordination point for public input to ICANN on a
regional basis.
-The first General Assembly of the Latin American and Caribbean RALO,
which was formed at the ICANN meeting in Lisbon, Portugal in March.
Yesterday .fj ccTLD (Fiji) also signed an Accountability Framework
agreement with ICANN.
Also read the daily newsletter posted in the meeting site if you wish
to read briefs from the days happening.
New announcements from ICANN is also posted on it's website http://
www.icann.org/
Regards,
--
Save Vocea
Global Partnerships
Manager, Regional Relations - Australasia/Pacific
http://www.icann.org
