This month’s episode discusses ICANN’s Registrar Accreditation Agreement. If you’re not familiar with it, perhaps you should be — more than 900 ICANN registrars have signed it, making it one of ICANN’s most foundational documents. Though it has seldom been revised in ICANN’s history, currently, a Working Group contemplates amending it.

Advocates for changing it include individual domain name holders, seeking a “Registrant Rights” charter; and numerous law enforcement agencies have focused on the RAA in hopes of gaining an edge in their fight against cybercrime. To learn more, listen to (or read) Senior Policy Counselor Margie Milam’s briefing in our latest episode of the podcast, entitled simply, “RAA.”

Could RAA amendments unveil cybercriminals? Or might they harm privacy?

If you missed last month’s episode, it’s also well worth your time. Leo Vegoda, Manager of Number Resources, delivered an outstanding orientation on almost every issue related to the fast-approaching shortage of Internet addresses. Whether or not you feel geeky enough to understand IPv4, IPv6, and the differences between them, Leo will help you understand all the ramifications of a worldwide Internet address shortage, what’s being done about it, and how the problem will affect you. If you’ve ever wondered at all about IPv6, check out Episode 5, “What Does IPv6 Mean?”

If you feel you learn better (or faster) by reading rather than listening, I’m pleased to announce that as of this month, every ICANN Start episode now has its transcript sitting right next to it. We’re continuing our effort to make the podcast a useful starting point when you want to understand an ICANN issue that is new to you. The ICANN community has responded, with the number of downloads during the podcast’s second month soaring north of 1,000. Thank you for your support!

What else would you like to hear a basic orientation about? Send an email to start@icann.org, where we’re watching for your input.

All of us involved with producing the podcast are grateful for that robust welcome (which, candidly, exceeds our expectations). We will keep working hard to make the show worth your time.

Here on this blog (and elsewhere) one of the first requests we heard was that we should transcribe the episodes. Lots of people like the idea of an ICANN resource that provides basic orientation, but not all of them find it convenient to listen rather than read.

We’ve heard your request, and are scrambling to comply. The April episode that just got posted has the transcript right next to it. Transcripts for the older episodes are on the way and will go up as they’re available, with all of them up by next week. From now on, our target will be to have the transcript accompany each monthly episode as it’s posted.

The new April episode features Margie Milam, Senior Policy Counselor. It turns out that a seemingly vanilla term like “consensus policy” has a technical meaning in ICANN, packed with connotations. Margie explains what consensus policy means, and along the way clarifies the difference between a registrar and a registry. If you’re reading this, you probably know all of this stuff — but the podcast or the transcript might turn on the lights for a new volunteer in your constituency or committee or At-Large Structure. Consider sending ‘em the link, which is http://icann.org/en/learning/podcasts.htm. (And if you want to listen in, we won’t tell anybody.)

What else can we do to make the show more useful to you? Are we covering the topics you want to hear about? Let us know by sending an email to start@icann.org.

En este programa, ya no se hablará tanto de la historia de Internet en estos países sino de cuáles son los retos que enfrentan estos ccTLDs y los proyectos que tienen en curso y pensados a futuro.

En esta ocasión hablan Armando Jipsion y Edna Samudio por .pa y Marvin Castañeda por .ni.

• Haz click aqui para escuchar el programa

ENGLISH

This is the third audio podcast featuring ccTLD operators in Latin America. In this programme the ccTLD managers from .pa Panama and .ni Nicaragua talk about the challenges that their ccTLDs are facing and the projects they are implementing now and in the future.

• Click here to listen to the programme [in Spanish]

Podcast roll

Armando Jipsion

(2:15)
Contacto Administrativo de .pa, NIC Panamá

Edna Samudio

(4:30)
Contacto Técnico de .pa, NIC Panamá

Marvin Castañeda

(9:20)
Contacto Administrativo de .ni, NIC Nicaragua

Programa de difusión de ICANN

El trabajo que realiza ICANN en las diferentes regiones sirve dos importantes objetivos de comunicación:

1. – El de llevar a ICANN las demandas de las comunidades regionales y locales;

2. – El de traer a la región información relevante sobre las discusiones y los procesos que suceden en ICANN a nivel global.

Se trata de ampliar el espectro de comunicación de ICANN, aplicándolo a diferentes idiomas y culturas. Se trata de abrir nuevos canales de comunicación que favorezcan la participación de nuevos actores (que puedan ser escuchados y puedan participar efectivamente en los procesos de ICANN).

La idea de este podcast es recuperar la experiencia de importantes actores de la región latinoamericana, como son los administradores de los códigos de país –que además en muchos casos coincide con aquellos que realizaron las primeras conexiones a Internet en sus países– para compartirla con una audiencia amplia de aquellos interesados en la evolución e institucionalización de Internet.

La ventaja de América Latina es que es una región bastante homogénea culturalmente y casi homogénea en términos de idioma.

ICANN’s outreach programme

The outreach work that ICANN carries out in different regions has two important objectives in terms of communication strategies:

1. – To facilitate a better understanding of the interest in and demands on ICANN from regional and local Internet communities;

2. – To share with the regional community relevant information about global discussions and processes currently under consideration in ICANN.

The outreach work also broadens the focus of ICANN’s communications to have them in different languages and fitting various cultural contexts.
It also opens new channels of communication to enhance participation of new players (who can be listened to and that have the chance to participate effectively in ICANN processes).

The idea behind the podcast that we are presenting is to recover the experience of important players in the Latin American region, such as the ccTLD managers –that in many cases correspond to those that first brought Internet connectivity into their respective countries–and to share it with a bigger audience interested in the evolution and institutionalization of the Internet.

Latin America has the quality of being a culturally homogeneous region in terms of culture and almost also in terms of language. This allows communications to be fluid and reach a great portion of the regional community.

You can listen to their conferences here:

• Steve Goldstein’s conference
• Susan Crawford’s conference

Photos by Joi Ito

Podcast roll

Steve Goldstein

(total 46:07)

Photo by Joi Ito

Steve moves through the history that goes between a 64kbps international link to the 5Mbps connection he has at his home. He describes the start of a new profession: an international connections manager. And he explains the key of working from the grass-root level to build networks around the world. It seems incredible why downloading a document, such as the RFC 1591 short file text, was so complicated just a few years ago when there was no web. And finally he addresses the question of why ICANN (does not) rule?

Susan Crawford

(total 24:16)

Photo by Joi Ito

Susan speaks about why she became involved in ICANN, her background (“a rebel who become a lawyer, a musician that went to law school”), ICANN’s founding myth (“the immaculate conception”) and intellectual property matters as they relate to ICANN.

On the last minute of the audio, starting at 23:10, she makes an invitation to participate in the One Web Day initiative around the world, to celebrate the changes that the Internet has done in human lives.

We hope you find these conferences interesting. They might even help to convince you to apply to ICANN’s fellowships program, active now for the next meeting in Los Angeles (29 October – 2 November). Remember that the closing day for applications is next Friday, 24 August.

Se presenta el segundo podcast sobre la historia de Internet, contada por las personas que ayudaron a desarrollar la red, entrevistadas por Pablo Hinojosa, enlace de ICANN para América Latina, quien pregunta a los administradores de los ccTLDs regionales cómo fue la primera conexión a Internet en sus países.

Photo by Joi Ito

This is the second of a series of podcasts covering the history of the Internet as told by the people that helped build it. ICANN’s regional relations manager for Latin America, Pablo Hinojosa, asks the managers of the region’s top-level domains the story behind how they first set up the network in their country.

En esta segunda parte, la historia la cuentan: Jorge Raúl Cabañas de Paraguay, Demi Getshko de Brasil, Patricio Poblete de Chile y Oscar Robles de México.

In this second part, the story is told by: Paraguay’s Jorge Raúl Cabañas; Brazil’s Demi Getschko; Chile’s Patricio Poblete; and Mexico’s Oscar Robles.

• Haz click aqui para escuchar el programa
• Click here to listen to the programme [in Spanish]

Podcast roll

Jorge Raúl Cabañas

(0:56)
Contacto Administrativo de .py, NIC.PY
Paraguay

Demi Getschko

(4:53) –en Portugués–
Contacto Administrativo de .br, NIC.br
Brasil

Photo by Joi Ito

Patricio Poblete

(5:32)
.cl Administrative Contact, NIC Chile
Chile

Oscar Robles

(10:48)
.mx Administrative Contact, NIC México
México

Escucha aquí el primer número del podcast

Escucha aquí el primer número del podcast

Click here for the first part of the podcast

Programa de difusión de ICANN

El trabajo que realiza ICANN en las diferentes regiones sirve dos importantes objetivos de comunicación:

1. – El de llevar a ICANN las demandas de las comunidades regionales y locales;

2. – El de traer a la región información relevante sobre las discusiones y los procesos que suceden en ICANN a nivel global.

Se trata de ampliar el espectro de comunicación de ICANN, aplicándolo a diferentes idiomas y culturas. Se trata de abrir nuevos canales de comunicación que favorezcan la participación de nuevos actores (que puedan ser escuchados y puedan participar efectivamente en los procesos de ICANN).

La idea de este podcast es recuperar la experiencia de importantes actores de la región latinoamericana, como son los administradores de los códigos de país –que además en muchos casos coincide con aquellos que realizaron las primeras conexiones a Internet en sus países– para compartirla con una audiencia amplia de aquellos interesados en la evolución e institucionalización de Internet.
La ventaja de América Latina es que es una región bastante homogénea culturalmente y casi homogénea en términos de idioma.

ICANN’s outreach programme

The outreach work that ICANN carries out in different regions has two important objectives in terms of communication strategies:

1. – To facilitate a better understanding of the interest in and demands on ICANN from regional and local Internet communities;

2. – To share with the regional community relevant information about global discussions and processes currently under consideration in ICANN.

The outreach work also broadens the focus of ICANN’s communications to have them in different languages and fitting various cultural contexts.
It also opens new channels of communication to enhance participation of new players (who can be listened to and that have the chance to participate effectively in ICANN processes).

The idea behind the podcast that we are presenting is to recover the experience of important players in the Latin American region, such as the ccTLD managers –that in many cases correspond to those that first brought Internet connectivity into their respective countries–and to share it with a bigger audience interested in the evolution and institutionalization of the Internet.

Latin America has the quality of being a culturally homogeneous region in terms of culture and almost also in terms of language. This allows communications to be fluid and reach a great portion of the regional community.

Se presenta el primero de una serie de podcasts que cubren la historia de Internet, contada por las personas que ayudaron a desarrollar la red, entrevistadas por Pablo Hinojosa, enlace de ICANN para América Latina, quien pregunta a los administradores de los ccTLDs regionales cómo fue la primera conexión a Internet en sus países.

In the first of a series of podcasts covering the history of the Internet as told by the people that helped build it, ICANN’s regional relations manager for Latin America, Pablo Hinojosa, asks the managers of the region’s top-level domains the story behind how they first set up the network in their country.

En esta primera parte, la historia la cuentan: Rafael Ibarra de El Salvador, Edna Samudio de Panamá, Marvin Castañeda de Nicaragua y Clara Collado de República Dominicana.

In this first part, the story is told by: El Salvador’s Rafael Ibarra; Panama’s Edna Samudio de Jaen; Nicaragua’s Marvin Castañeda; and the Dominican Republic’s Clara Collado.

• Haz click aqui para escuchar el programa
• Click here to listen to the programme [in Spanish]

Podcast roll

Rafael (Lito) Ibarra

(3:12)
.sv Administrative Contact, SVNET
Universidad Centroamericana “José Simón Cañas”
El Salvador

Edna Samudio de Jaen

(7:58)
.pa Technical Contact, PANNET
Universidad Tecnologica de Panama
Panamá

Marvin Castañeda

(11:46)
.ni Administrative Contact, NIC-NI
Universidad Nacional del Ingernieria
Nicaragua

Clara Collado

(15:55)
.do Technical Contact
Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra Dominican Republic

Programa de difusión de ICANN

El trabajo que realiza ICANN en las diferentes regiones sirve dos importantes objetivos de comunicación:

1. – El de llevar a ICANN las demandas de las comunidades regionales y locales;

2. – El de traer a la región información relevante sobre las discusiones y los procesos que suceden en ICANN a nivel global.

Se trata de ampliar el espectro de comunicación de ICANN, aplicándolo a diferentes idiomas y culturas. Se trata de abrir nuevos canales de comunicación que favorezcan la participación de nuevos actores (que puedan ser escuchados y puedan participar efectivamente en los procesos de ICANN).

La idea de este podcast (que se divide en dos programas) es recuperar la experiencia de importantes actores de la región latinoamericana, como son los administradores de los códigos de país –que además en muchos casos coincide con aquellos que realizaron las primeras conexiones a Internet en sus países– para compartirla con una audiencia amplia de aquellos interesados en la evolución e institucionalización de Internet.
La ventaja de América Latina es que es una región bastante homogénea culturalmente y casi homogénea en términos de idioma.

ICANN’s outreach programme

The outreach work that ICANN carries out in different regions has two important objectives in terms of communication strategies:

1. – To facilitate a better understanding of the interest in and demands on ICANN from regional and local Internet communities;

2. – To share with the regional community relevant information about global discussions and processes currently under consideration in ICANN.

The outreach work also broadens the focus of ICANN’s communications to have them in different languages and fitting various cultural contexts.
It also opens new channels of communication to enhance participation of new players (who can be listened to and that have the chance to participate effectively in ICANN processes).

The idea behind the pod cast that we are presenting (which is divided into two programs) is to recover the experience of important players in the Latin American region, such as the ccTLD managers –that in many cases correspond to those that first brought Internet connectivity into their respective countries–and to share it with a bigger audience interested in the evolution and institutionalization of the Internet.

Latin America has the quality of being a culturally homogeneous region in terms of culture and almost also in terms of language. This allows communications to be fluid and reach a great portion of the regional community.