During the run-up to ICANN’s Nairobi meeting, some corners of the community raised concerns. Many community members could not make it to Nairobi for a variety of reasons, and some interest groups, such as the Registries, were going to be under-represented as physical participants. Some folks predicted that overall low attendance would slow progress in [...]

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As has been noted again in recent days, some ISPs, vendors and end users have been using previously unallocated IPv4  blocks to address their own networks and devices. When these address blocks become officially allocated or assigned, the prior use can lead to routing problems both for the new holder of the addresses and the [...]

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Первый Российский форум по управлению Интернетом, организованный Координационным центром национального домена сети Интернет при поддержке Министерства связи и массовых коммуникаций РФ состоится 13-14 мая 2010 г. в Экспоцентре на Красной Пресне. Цель проведения Российского форума по управлению Интернетом – объединить все профессиональные точки зрения и организовать дискуссию для поиска консенсуса между государственными органами, профессиональным телекоммуникационным [...]

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The paper entitled “Registry-Registrar Separation: Vertical Integration Options” [PDF, 44K] was produced for review by the ICANN Board during its 4 February 2010 Board Meeting (as was discussed in the preliminary report of that meeting at http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/prelim-report-04feb10-en.htm). It was requested that the paper be produced to the community to provide further information on this topic. [...]

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Nous sommes a Nairobi, capitale du Kenya, sous région Afrique de l’Est qui accueille pour la 1ere fois une réunion de l’ICANN. Une région qui traditionnellement n’était pas très connectée mais qui voit depuis la fin de l’année dernière avec l’avènement de 3-4 cables sous marin permettant une meilleure connectivite. La sous région vit donc [...]

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Since the launch of the Fast Track Process, ICANN has received many questions about how the DNS Stability Panel will determine a confusingly similar string; that is, a requested string that is confusing similar with an existing ccTLD, gTLD or applied-for TLDs. The overall rules seem clear: 1) If you apply for an IDN ccTLD [...]

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I travelled with Rod Beckstrom to Beijing on 2-3 March for talks with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Industry leaders and CNNIC, the China Internet information Network. Apart from a brief visit to Europe at end 2009 this was Rod’s first major bilateral visit since he was appointed President and CEO. A quite [...]

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By Nick Tomasso 5 March 2010 Late Wednesday, my meetings team here in Nairobi was hit with some unexpected and troubling news by the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC), the venue for the ICANN meeting. Unfortunately, it is news that could severely impact our community as it attends the meeting here on Monday and Tuesday. [...]

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Imagine footmen playing a royal brass fanfare as we announce: ICANN now produces its first audio podcast series for you! When you join the ICANN community, you quickly discover that folks here have considered and debated certain issues for years. You want to participate, but when you try to educate yourself on a topic, you [...]

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