by Kieren McCarthy on January 21, 2009
ICANN está buscando un anfitrión para su reunión de 2010 en Latinoamérica. Se espera que los participantes en la región presenten una Expresión de interés para ser la sede de la conferencia que tendrá lugar del 20 al 25 de junio de 2010.
Las reuniones públicas de ICANN convocan a personas de todo el mundo y atraen un amplio abanico de participantes interesados en problemas sobre el trato y la política de Internet. La prensa internacional cubre la información de estas reuniones y ofrece una oportunidad ideal a los participantes, patrocinadores y anfitriones para colaborar en la solución de problemas clave de Internet.
by Kieren McCarthy on January 12, 2009
The first public comment period on the Draft Applicant Guidebook for new gTLDs has closed. The period opened on 24 October 2008, and was 76 days long after it closed 7 January to account for later publication of the Guidebook in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. ICANN continued to receive and accept English comments received until the January 7 deadline considering the end of year holidays.
The comment period received over 300 comments from participants from 24 different countries. Among the many participants were individuals and organizations representing intellectual property interests, brand owners, business owners, ICANN supporting organizations, domain name industry players, and governments.
“This level of interest and feedback to the Draft Guidebook shows that the comment process is working. All the comments and concerns will be considered and a response will be provided” said Paul Levins, Executive Officer and Vice President Corporate Affairs.
by Kieren McCarthy on January 5, 2009
Our Annual Report has been published, covering the organization’s achievements and progress during 2008.
The report includes information on the three major initiatives ICANN undertook last year (and continues with this year): the process for introducing new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to the Internet; the introduction for the first time of internationalized domain names (IDNs); and an extensive Improving Institutional Confidence consultation, to enable the conclusion of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with the United States government in September 2009.
Reports from the chairs of ICANN’s Supporting Organization and Advisory Organizations are included alongside detailed rundowns of each department by the organization’s staff.
by Kieren McCarthy on January 5, 2009
During the Cairo meeting in, ICANN together with Domaine.info produced a number of videos covering the main sessions and topics, with each video fronted by a member of either the staff or a chair of the relevant supporting organization or advisory committee.
You can find all of those videos posted on the Cairo site at http://cai.icann.org/video, and we also post ICANN videos on the main site under the main tab “Videos”.
This video features two of ICANN’s project managers – Tina Dam and IDNs, and Karla Valente and new gTLDs – talking about the sessions they were due to run on the first day of the conference where introductions were given to their two topic areas.
