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Congressional Hearing on ICANN

by Kieren McCarthy on June 4, 2009

A Congressional Hearing is taking place in Washington this morning concerning ICANN and the conclusion of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) that ICANN has with the US government.
President and CEO Paul Twomey is representing ICANN on a panel of six, in front of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
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向悉尼理事会直接提问

by Kieren McCarthy on June 3, 2009

一份机构群体成员能直接向 ICANN 理事会和工作人员提问的在线问题表已于今天开放。

该问题表将开放至 6 月 17 日(星期三),以便为 6 月25 日(星期四)在悉尼召开的 ICANN 国际公开会议的公众论坛做准备。

每人最多可提两个问题,长度限制为 50 个单词。提出的问题可涉及 ICANN 及其工作的任何方面。我们将在公众论坛期间回答这些问题,或会议之后几周内将答复以电子邮件的形式发送给您并予以公布。

您可从以下链接找到此表格,也可在悉尼会议的网站、博客和公众参与网站中找到此表格。

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Сегодня опубликована онлайн-форма отправки вопросов, с помощью которой члены сообщества могут задать вопросы непосредственно Правлению и сотрудникам корпорации ICANN.

В рамках подготовки к общественному форуму, который состоится в четверг, 25 июня, на международной открытой конференции ICANN в Сиднее, с помощью этой формы можно задать свои вопросы.

Любой участник может задать не более двух вопросов, длиной до 50 слов. Вопросы могут касаться любых аспектов организации ICANN и ее деятельности. Ответы на вопросы будут получены либо во время общественного форума, либо отправлены по электронной почте и опубликованы в течение нескольких недель после конференции.

Форма отправки вопросов приводится далее, а также опубликована на веб-сайте конференции в Сиднее, в блоге и на веб-сайте общественного участия.

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قامت آيكان على مدار الأيام القليلة الماضية بنشر مجموعة من المستندات في إطار الاستعداد لاجتماع سيدني (٢١-٢٦ يونيو
٢٠٠٩) تمهيدا لمناقشتها خلال الاجتماع. وتشمل هذه المستندات ما يلي
المسار السريع لأسماء النطاقات الدولية لرمز الدولة: تم نشر الإصدار الثالث لمسودة خطة التنفيذ، ونسخة معدلة لاقتراح وثيقة المسئولية، وكذلك التفاصيل الخاصة بالمساهمة المالية المقترحة لدعم تطبيق أسماء [...]

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Hoy se ha abierto una ventana/casilla de preguntas en línea, donde los miembros de la comunidad pueden formular preguntas directamente a la Junta Directiva de la Corporación para la Asignación de Números y Nombres en Internet (ICANN).

La ventana/casilla de preguntas estará disponible hasta el día miércoles 17 de junio, y su contenido se utilizará para la preparación del foro público a celebrarse en la reunión pública internacional de la Corporación para la Asignación de Números y Nombres en Internet (ICANN), el día jueves 25 de junio en Sídney.

Cualquiera puede formular hasta dos preguntas/comentarios de hasta 50 palabras. La pregunta puede estar relacionada con un tema de la Corporación para la Asignación de Números y Nombres en Internet (ICANN) y su labor. Las respuestas bien serán brindadas durante el foro público o serán enviadas por correo electrónico y publicadas en las semanas siguientes a la reunión.

El formulario lo puede encontrar debajo, así como en el sitio web de la reunión de Sídney, en el blog y en el sitio web de participación pública.

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Une boîte à questions en ligne, où les membres de la communauté peuvent poser leurs questions directement au Conseil d’administration et au personnel, a été ouverte aujourd’hui.

La boîte à questions pourra recevoir des questions jusqu’au mercredi 17 juin, dans le cadre de la préparation au débat public prévu le jeudi 25 juin, durant la conférence internationale de l’ICANN à Sydney.

Chacun peut poser jusqu’à deux questions ou écrire jusqu’à 50 mots. La question peut couvrir tout sujet lié à l’ICANN et à ses activités. Les réponses seront fournies soit durant le débat public soit par courrier électronique et publiées dans les semaines qui suivront la conférence.

Vous pouvez trouver le formulaire ci-dessous ainsi que sur le site Web de la conférence de Sydney, le blog, et le site Web de participation publique.

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A quick guide to Sydney material

by Kurt Pritz on June 1, 2009

Over the weekend, we published quite a bit of material. It was published now to meet a request by the Board and the community that we post three business weeks prior to the start of a meeting; these series of postings ensure that the bulk of materials being considered during Sydney will meet this goal.

With Sydney opening on Monday 22 June, we strived to have this information up before this morning, Monday 1 June.

As such, it is probably as comprehensive a set of documents as ICANN has published for any meeting – addressing hard issues on IDNs, an important report on intellectual property issues as related to domain names, another huge piece of comment and analysis related to new TLDs, new financial analysis, more on community travel (which is coming), and other areas. I’m also pretty confident that this is the earliest (relative to an ICANN meeting) that this kind of material has been available.

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What the Board decided in May

by Kieren McCarthy on June 1, 2009

The Board made a number of important decisions at its May meeting. You can read the preliminary report online now at http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/prelim-report-21may09.htm, but here is a quick rundown of the decisions made and their import.

  • A new registrars contract

After two years of work, a new contract covering the relationship between ICANN and registrars was approved by the Board.

The contract contains no less than 17 amendments and was the first overhaul of the contract since it was first approved in 2001. Read more in the official announcement: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-29may09-en.htm.

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Ask a question direct to the Board in Sydney

by Kieren McCarthy on May 27, 2009

An online question box where community members can ask questions directly to the ICANN Board and staff has opened today.
The question box will take questions from Wednesday 27 May until Wednesday 17 June in preparation for the public forum at ICANN’s international public meeting in Sydney on Thursday 25 June.
Questions are limited to two per [...]

One of the most consistent complaints we hear from the community is the lack of ICANN materials – reports, announcements, webpages and so on – in languages other than English.

We have been working hard on this for nearly two years and ICANN now has a translation manager as well as a decent size budget and much better internal systems for putting things through translation. The amount of translation we do (and interpretation at meetings) has jumped and we are doing it at lower cost and with greater accuracy than ever before.

But we recognize that this is only a partial solution. The ICANN website is the main entry point to the organization and it remains defiantly English. While we translate more documents than every before, only a tiny proportion of our webpages are in other languages, making it hard for community members to find those translated documents and to keep up to date with ICANN and its work.

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