Министр связи и массовых коммуникаций Российской Федерации Игорь Щёголев определил представителя России в Межгосударственном наблюдательном комитете (Governmental Advisory Committee) интернет-корпорации для специализированных имен и адресов (ICANN). Им стал директор Департамента научно-технического и стратегического развития отрасли Минкомсвязи России Олег Чутов. Надо напомнит, что до сентября 2009 года Россия не была официально представлена в ICANN. Теперь в [...]

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Just a brief message to keep you up to date. As of 00:00 UTC today – 4 days after the launch of the Fast Track Process we have new requests coming in. The total number is 10 requests. They spread over 5 different languages. Details about the process is at: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/ Please keep asking questions. [...]

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The IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process was successfully launched, as planned on 16 November 2009. It was done at exactly 00:00UTC with a very joyful count-down by the Fast Track Staff Team – followed by a wooohooo The launch went smoothly. We have since monitored the system and everything is working. As of 10pm Pacific [...]

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ICANN ran an open forum at the IGF in Sharm El Sheikh yesterday. You can view a video of the event below. ICANN and the Internet Ecosystem Presentation [PDF, 1,440K]

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As we (at ICANN staff) have been preparing for the Fast Track launch, for tomorrow, it was suggested to me that I write a blog post about it. I could have written about all the hard work, the long hours, the aggressive testing of the online system, keeping it simple and yet flexible for all [...]

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Just after the Seoul meeting ended, we set up an online survey asking attendees what they thought about various aspects of it. Of 1,120 total attendees (excluding staff and Board), we emailed 540 of them using the information they had provided on registration and received 110 responses – a healthy response rate of 20.4 percent. [...]

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The CEO and the Chairman, along with a number of Board members, community members and staff will be present at the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh next week. Here is a quick rundown of ICANN-related events and information for participating both in person and remotely. Open Forum There are two main sessions from [...]

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Briefing Note – Overall Summary of the Seoul Meeting What was it? ICANN’s 36th international public meeting was the last of three held annually to conduct policy development and outreach. It was hosted by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and KISA(Korea Internet & Security Agency), a public agency that plays a [...]

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في ختام اجتماع الآيكان في مدينة سيول بكوريا الجنوبية الأسبوع الماضي وتحديداً يوم الجمعة ٣٠ أكتوبر ٢٠٠٩، وافق مجلس إدارة الآيكان على الخطة التنفيذية لتطبيق أسماء النطاقات الدولية من خلال ما يعرف بعملية المسار السريع لأسماء نطاقات المستوى الأعلى لرموز الدول. وهذا القرار يعني ببساطة أن الدول التي لغاتها الرسمية لغات غير الإنجليزية، أو تحديداً [...]

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