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If you like challenges, embrace change, are passionate about Internet governance and a fervent believer in bottom-up consensus-building, then ICANN’s Nominating Committee wants to hear from you. We are seeking volunteers who are enthusiastic about the Internet to serve on ICANN’s Board of Directors, Generic Names Supporting Organization, At-Large Advisory Committee and the Country Code [...]
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The ICANN life seems to revolve around our meetings. In Toronto, our Communications team recorded a short video of me attending meetings and talking to our community. As we prepare for Beijing, I am excited to visit a country where some of the oldest civilizations are now overlaid with the largest Internet community in the [...]
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Dave Piscitello, on behalf of the ICANN Security Team In recent weeks, numerous high profile organizations and financial institutions have been targets of massive service disruption attacks. Several of these attacks are characteristically similar to attacks against top level domain name servers in 2006. ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee published an Advisory, SAC008 [PDF, [...]
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As we go into the Beijing meeting, I am struck by the manner in which ICANN meetings are defined by the open exchange of ideas. In no small way, the meetings form the foundation for discussion, agreement and often-respectful disagreement. It is not merely an opportunity to speak; it is also a chance to listen, [...]
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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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In addition to the ccTLD CEO Roundtable in London (see blog), I was able to meet the next day, 14 March 2013, with senior executives from Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as well as from telecommunications companies (telecoms). During the course of our roundtable, we explored the role of ISPs in relation to other organizations within [...]
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After several months of intensive work marked by an open and constructive dialog between the regional members from different countries and stakeholder groups, the LAC Strategy Working Group has completed a first draft of the Latin American and Caribbean Strategic Plan. When reading the draft, it is possible that most members of the region may [...]
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Después de varios meses de trabajo intensivo caracterizado por un diálogo abierto y constructivo entre actores de la región provenientes de diversos países y grupos de interés, el Grupo de Trabajo para la estrategia LAC ha concluido con un primer borrador del Plan Estratégico para América Latina y el Caribe. Quizás al leer el borrador [...]
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I was pleased to have the opportunity last week to meet with a group of ccTLDs in London, as part of a series of CEO Roundtables centered on strategic issues faced by the Domain Name System (DNS) sector. This roundtable served as a forum for the ccTLDs, from a diverse set of countries, to provide [...]
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