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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ICANN ha firmado un documento de afirmación con el Departamento de Comercio de los Estados Unidos. Este acuerdo es histórico ya que valida el modelo de ICANN de una vez por todas y a nivel internacional.
Cuando ICANN fue creada hace más de una década, nació como una organización fragil y experimental. Su evolución se [...]

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Михаил Якушев, председатель Правление КЦ .ру:
Отмена JPA – давно ожидаемый и разумный шаг со стороны правительства США, еще одно подтверждение приверженности новой Администрации политике «перезагрузки» отношений – в данном случае с мировым интернет-сообществом.
Очевидно, что это даст новый толчок развитию процессов интернационализации управления Интернетом и одновременно будет способствовать сохранению его связанности как критического условия функционирования Глобальной [...]

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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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Last week I attended the “Second International Conference for ccTLD Registries and Registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe”, held in the picturesque lakeside town of Bled, in Slovenia. Bled is one of the most beautiful places I’ve had the pleasure to visit and the conference, despite its rather cumbersome title, was similarly [...]

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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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At the joint meeting of ICANN’s advisory committees and supporting organizations in Sydney, a number of core issues and corresponding possible solutions were discussed and pulled into a summary document.
We have put that document out in a radically different public comment period to allow for as much community discussion and collaboration as possible.
The comment [...]

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It’s not every day that ICANN comes to town. As an employee of Tucows, the third largest ICANN accredited registrar, I’m a little more tuned in to what’s going on with ICANN than the average person. But in my nearly three years at the company, I’ve never attended an ICANN meeting in the flesh. Instead, [...]

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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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