The Board Meeting Minutes and Resolutions page is a great place to see some of initial work ICANN has already done to meet the recommendations of the Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT). These include: Starting with the Brussels Board meeting in June 2010, ICANN has been providing translations into the six UN Languages of [...]

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ICANN will convene an open teleconference on 13 April 2011. The Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) requested this call to discuss issues relating to the current draft of the RRDRP. The latest comments from the RySG on the RRDRP were submitted on 7 December 2010 (see http://forum.icann.org/lists/5gtld-guide/msg00029.html) and subsequent to that the RySG submitted a redline [...]

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ICANN signed an agreement yesterday with ICM for the introduction of the .XXX top-level domain. ICANN’s Board of Directors approved entering into the agreement during our recent Silicon Valley-San Francisco Public Meeting. We have now finalized negotiations and executed an agreement that’s posted at http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/xxx/. It includes some new and revised provisions that follow on [...]

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On 12-13 May 2011, ICANN and its gTLD registration services providers will meet in Munich, Germany. Regional events are a chance for ICANN staff and representatives from gTLD registries and ICANN-accredited registrars to meet informally to discuss topics important to our industry and business relationships. Some of the anticipated agenda items are: Registrar Training per [...]

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Three times each year ICANN hosts an international public meeting in a different geographic region of the world. The third meeting of 2011 is scheduled for Africa on October 24-28, and I am delighted to confirm that Dakar, Senegal, will be the site of ICANN’s 42nd Public Meeting. We are grateful for the assistance of [...]

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You wait all morning for a bus and then 3 of them come along together. Until about a week ago, NOT A SINGLE WOMAN had applied via the 2011 NomCom for a leadership position within ICANN. Now, we’re glad to say, two women have applied. That’s 2 out of 40, so not great odds still. [...]

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We are pleased to announce two new hires who are joining ICANN’s contractual compliance team. If you’re unfamiliar with the contractual compliance team, it provides the backbone of ICANN’s enforcement of the rules negotiated with contracted parties. Maguy Serad, an experienced technology and business manager, has been named Senior Director of Contractual compliance. Ms. Serad [...]

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As communicated earlier today, there was no GAC-Board meeting this afternoon at 4PM. The Board and GAC continue to work separately. The Board continues its review of the exchange of information, and is considering the recent community inputs as well as transcripts from the recent public session. The GAC came to the session today with [...]

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By now, most attendees of ICANN’s 40th Public Meeting probably know that Vint Cerf is speaking Monday night as a featured guest of the NARALO Showcase. If Vint’s history of helping found the Internet interests you, we have an additional treat in store. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn co-authored the technical foundation of the Internet, [...]

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