Today, ICANN posted a single information source for the current gTLD WHOIS-related agreement provisions and policies to make them easier for the community to access. The suggestion for such a webpage came from the WHOIS Policy Review Team and was accepted by the Board for implementation on 8 November 2012. This single source documents the [...]

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By Margie Milam, Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives In October ICANN’s President & CEO, Fadi Chehadé, announced an ambitious plan for tackling one of ICANN’s most controversial issues—WHOIS. Undeterred by the decade’s long debate, and encouraged by the WHOIS Review Team’s Report, he challenged the notion that WHOIS couldn’t be fixed, and instead suggested a fresh [...]

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I am writing these words on a train en route back home to Washington from New York City and I’m happy to report that the train is moving just a tad faster than development of the new gTLD program. Based on my calculations, it will take considerably less than seven years for me to arrive [...]

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On Monday, I was very pleased to host more than a dozen leaders from the registry community; participants in our latest CEO Roundtable series focused on key issues and trends within the Domain Name System sector. Over the course of a day, we discussed the evolution of the DNS sector from a number of perspectives [...]

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Today I convened the final informational call to close off the series of stakeholder meetings on implementing the Trademark Clearinghouse. I shared the following updates: Trademark Clearinghouse Agreements I am pleased to announce that we have signed an agreement with Deloitte Enterprise Risk Services to be the first provider of validation services for the Trademark [...]

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To wrap up the series of meetings ICANN convened with stakeholders to find common ground on Trademark Clearinghouse implementation, we conducted a follow-up briefing today for the group who worked on these issues during our meetings in Brussels and Los Angeles. We discussed two items: An update on the Trademark Clearinghouse contract, and A way [...]

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This is a guest post by Axel Pawlik, Managing Director of the RIPE NCC. The RIPE NCC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. For many of us in the technical community, it feels like we’ve been talking about the need to adopt IPv6 for years. [...]

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本文是一篇客座博文，作者 Axel Pawlik 是欧洲网络资源协调中心 (RIPE NCC) 的总经理。RIPE NCC 是负责欧洲、中东和中亚部分地区的地区互联网注册管理机构 (RIR)。 对于技术群体中的大多数人来说，我们感到对于采纳 IPv6 的必要性似乎已经讨论了数年时间。 RIPE NCC（负责欧洲、中东和中亚部分地区的地区互联网注册管理机构）于 1999 年首次进行 IPv6 分配。当时，”互联网事务”被首次提及，移动网络开始快速发展，我们首次领略了这些发展给世界带来的变革。 尽管此时 IPv4 地址空间供应仍然充足，但是我们已经明白，43 亿的可用 IPv4 地址无法满足互联网的发展需求。我们开始向每位希望了解 IPv6 的人宣传有关 IPv6 的信息，希望让大家了解它是下一代互联网协议版本，它将大大增加 IP 地址的数量，并确保互联网能够在未来发展壮大。 永久启用 转眼进入 2012 年，最终，我们可能到达这样一个拐点 – 此时，IPv6 的部署从一件应该完成的事转变成为必须尽快完成的事，否则，数百万未来互联网用户就有可能无法使用互联网。 在 2011 年世界 IPv6 日 (World IPv6 Day) 成功举办的基础上，世界 IPv6 启动 (World IPv6 Launch) 活动已于 2012 年 [...]

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