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Just before the Sydney meeting in June we announced we were running a usability study on the main ICANN website at icann.org and opened a survey to the community to provide their feedback. This is an update on that process just prior to the next meeting in Seoul, starting on Monday.
Since June, ICANN staff has [...]

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The public forum in Seoul will take place on Thursday 29 October. You can find the latest information on the session webpage at http://sel.icann.org/public-forum.
Session goals and outcomes:
The public forum is the community’s opportunity to make comments on the main topics in front of ICANN at each meeting directly to the Board and in front of [...]

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An online question box where community members can ask questions directly to the ICANN Board and staff is open.
The question box will take questions until Wednesday 14 October in preparation for the public forum at ICANN’s international public meeting in Sydney on Thursday 29 October.
Questions are limited to two per individual and 50 words in [...]

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If you are a regular ICANN community member, it is likely you are currently feeling overwhelmed by the amount of material that has appeared in the past week. So here is a quick guide to help make sense of it all.
Sections are:

JPA/Affirmation
Applicant Guidebook/new gTLDs
Fast Track/IDNs
Public comment periods
Seoul meeting
And the remainder

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بعد أحد عشرة عاماً من مذكرات التفاهم والاتفاقيات قصيرة الأجل وقعت وزارة التجارة الأمريكية وهيئة الإنترنت للأسماء والأرقام المخصصة (الآيكان) اليوم الأربعاء ٣٠ سبتمبر ٢٠٠٩ على اتفاق طويل الأمد تحت مسمى “تأكيد الالتزامات” حيث أقر الطرفان بانتهاء المرحلة الانتقالية من عملية التنسيق الفني لأسماء وأرقام الإنترنت من قبل مؤسسة الآيكان – [...]

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As ICANN staff, it is hard to avoid the news when your organisation is the subject of a hearing held by the United States Congress. This week we saw another such hearing, where the House Judiciary committee discussed the future deployment of new top-level domains.
A number of people testified, including my colleague Doug Brent, but [...]

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I’ve previously written about the problem with IPv4 /8s which have been used to number IP networks in an unofficial and improper way.
The problem is that the unofficial usage makes it more difficult for ISPs to bring these addresses into use when they are officially allocated and so less desirable. But we have to allocate [...]

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Variant top-level domains (TLDs) and how they are managed is one of the most hotly discussed topics we are facing at the moment. What are variant TLDs, you ask? Well, that’s where the discussion begins…
ICANN’s staff is currently producing implementation plans for both the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process and the New gTLD Process. What [...]

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