ICANN meetings are an opportunity for members of the global Internet community to convene in one place, connect with one another, and participate in the development of key policies that shape the Internet’s future. Among many other important functions, these meetings integrate new members into the ICANN community. Newcomers’ ideas, perspectives, participation, and engagement are [...]

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ICANN is pleased to announce that the 14-19 October 2012 ICANN Public Meeting will be held in Toronto, Canada. We would like to express our warm thanks to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), which has graciously agreed to act as our host, and has extended the support of their team. The Meeting will be [...]

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I am delighted to confirm that President Bill Clinton will address ICANN’s Silicon Valley-San Francisco meeting at 6pm on March 16. President Clinton is the founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the 42nd President of the United States. The Clinton administration was instrumental in ICANN’s formation in 1998. All registered attendees are welcome [...]

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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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ICANN recently published materials describing discussions, public comment and general progress on the New gTLD program. One area that has attracted particular interest is the timeline for moving forward. If you have been following this program, you know that predicting timelines has been problematic because progress depends on community reaction to proposals and ensuring those [...]

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ICANN is pleased to announce that the 19-24 June Public Meeting will be held in Singapore. We would like to express our warm thanks to the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and the Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC), who have graciously agreed to act as our host, and have extended the support of their [...]

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ICANN’s Board of Directors has decided not to hold the June 20-24 ICANN Public Meeting in Amman, Jordan. ICANN’s goal is always to facilitate the participation of as many people as possible in our bottom-up, multi-stakeholder community. The Board reluctantly made its decision after closely monitoring the rapidly changing developments affecting the Middle East. The [...]

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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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We wanted to provide some additional information on the work being carried out by ICANN’s Board of Directors and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to prepare for their upcoming meeting in Brussels on the new gTLD program. As detailed in our recent announcements and blog, the Board and the GAC will hold a joint workshop [...]

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