ICANN опубликовала официальное заключение, касающееся Промежуточного обзора (Midterm Review). В этом документе содержатся итоги разработки соглашения JPA (Joint Partner Agreement), которое должно быть заключено между корпорацией и Министерством торговли США.

В опубликованном заключении (pdf) говорится о том, что окончательная версия JPA станет очередным шагом на пути к независимости ICANN и выводу системы доменных имен (DNS) из-под контроля Правительства США.

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There have been some reports in the past few days about possible “division” of the Internet in Russia, tied in with speculation that the forthcoming Cyrillic domain names will be used to grant the Russian government more control over its citizens. The source of this speculation appears to be an article published in UK newspaper The Guardian. That article was then reproduced in a number of Russian news articles, most of them quoting a direct translation published by SecurityLab.

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Se presenta a continuación el tercer programa de audio (podcast), esta vez con los operadores de los ccTLDs .pa de Panamá y .ni de Nicaragua.
En este programa, ya no se hablará tanto de la historia de Internet en estos países sino de cuáles son los retos que enfrentan estos ccTLDs y los proyectos que tienen [...]

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Some of the Russian media reported in July 2007 that the Russian government plans to build its own Internet, independent of the World Wide Web, which will service Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries, such as Armenia, Moldova and the Ukraine.
A number of articles from DP.ru (”Russia to build its own www.web.rus”), [...]

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On 25 September, ICANN CEO Paul Twomey and myself (as the regional manager) visited Moscow at the invitation of the Russian Minister of Information Technologies and Communications. While over there we were also scheduled to meet some of the .ru Board members, the .su administrators from the Russian Institute for Public Networks (RIPN), the Institute [...]

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Two members of the Board, Steve Goldstein and Susan Crawford, addressed the ICANN fellows during the San Juan meeting. They gave interesting talks about the history of the net and the history of ICANN.
You can listen to their conferences here:

Steve Goldstein’s conference
Susan Crawford’s conference

Photos by Joi Ito

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In a little over a month (September 10-12), IT professionals from around the world will meet at the Vatutinki residence near Moscow, Russia.
Among them will be, from ICANN, Theresa Swinehart, Tina Dam and Veni Markovski, as well as Fred Baker and Patrik Faltstrom (CISCO/IETF), Jaap Akkerhuis (DNSsec/NLnet Labs), Timothy Lowe (RIPE), and Lynn St. Amour [...]

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Internet history – the Latin American experience
Se presenta el segundo podcast sobre la historia de Internet, contada por las personas que ayudaron a desarrollar la red, entrevistadas por Pablo Hinojosa, enlace de ICANN para América Latina, quien pregunta a los administradores de los ccTLDs regionales cómo fue la primera conexión a Internet en sus países.

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La propuesta de principios sobre transparencia y rendición de cuentas incluye una sección sobre traducción, la cual se discutirá durante la reunión de San Juan en junio de 2007.
Dichos principios de traducción presentan un marco amplio para traducir los documentos de ICANN, pero no llega a establecer soluciones prácticas. El propósito de esta nota es [...]