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L’ICANN organisera une téléconférence ouverte le 13 avril 2011. Le groupe des parties prenantes des registres (Registries Stakeholder Group – RySG) a demandé cet appel pour discuter de questions concernant l’ébauche actuelle du RRDRP. Les derniers commentaires du RySG sur le RRDRP ont été soumis le 7 décembre 2010 (voir http://forum.icann.org/lists/5gtld-guide/msg00029.html) et, en conséquence, le [...]
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The US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released a "Notice of Inquiry" (NOI) today, seeking public comment on how to improve the IANA functions contract. ICANN performs these functions pursuant to a procurement contract that is scheduled to expire on 30 September 2011. NTIA indicates that it will consider public comments [...]
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In December we spoke of the planned changes to the IPv4 Reverse DNS Infrastructure where the zone maintenance of the IN-ADDR.ARPA zone would transition to ICANN and be managed concurrently with the central assignment of address space to the RIRs. ICANN would like to announce that the transition of the technical management function for the [...]
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In 1995, on behalf of the IAB and IANA, I wrote a document called “Unique Addresses are Good” (RFC 1814). The Internet community had begun to worry about the depletion of the IPv4 address space at that time and the IAB and IANA started taking steps to slow the distribution of IPv4 addresses. One of [...]
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As you would expect, most of ICANN’s external services, including this blog, are available over IPv6 as well as IPv4. And at the request of the ICANN Board, a regular comparative measure of IPv6 use at the ICANN and IANA websites has been provided to them for months. The good news is that the trend [...]
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Because IPv6 is so much larger than IPv4, the IETF has been able to structure the address space more neatly. Consequently, it is easier to distinguish between different address types based on the first few characters in the address, rather than having to refer to registry, as is often the case with IPv4. Nonetheless, there [...]
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We currently provide a WHOIS server at whois.iana.org which provides the ability to lookup information for a certain subset of domains, most notably the details of top-level domains. One of the projects we’ve been working on within the IANA department is to develop a new WHOIS server to cope with increased use cases, and generally [...]
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Today the first three production non-Latin top-level domains were placed in the DNS root zone. This means they are live! Here is one newly enabled domain with a functional website that works right now: وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر What you should be seeing is something like the following: It even works on a mobile phone: The three new [...]
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ICANN Strategic Plan July 2010 – June 2013 [PDF, 947 KB] The ICANN meeting in Seoul was my first meeting as CEO, and coincided with the kickoff of the ICANN Strategic planning process, an essential basis for ICANN’s operational and budget planning process. Based on my experience with other organizations and Boards, I was interested [...]
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We have received a lot of communication concerning the devastation in Haiti, particularly its impact on Internet function and the .HT top-level domain. Here are the basic facts: We have been in contact with the administrators of .HT and they are alive and well, although understandably overwhelmed dealing with the tragedy there. Other ICANN fellows [...]
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