by Kieren McCarthy on June 5, 2009
Starting in Cairo in November 2008, the chairs of the different supporting organizations (SOs) and advisory committees (ACs) have held a joint meeting.
The idea was to find a formula for open communication that was more than a repeat of existing open microphone sessions. The chairs also wanted to create a forum that could break through the silos of discussion and communication in which ACs and SOs often operate. And, lastly, they wanted the opportunity to discuss topics of mutual interest and importance, and to have those topics suggested by ACSO members.
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Each time, feedback has been taken from the community and the session adjusted to reflect that. For Sydney, the decision has been taken to reduce the time taken on Monday to just one session of 90 minutes and to concentrate on a single topic (albeit with multiple arms).
by Stephane Van Gelder on December 16, 2008
Depuis maintenant un peu plus de 30 jours, je suis au Conseil du GNSO. Que signifient ces quatre lettres ? Le “Generic Names Supporting Organization” est une des structures clefs de l’ICANN, puisqu’elle est en charge de l’élaboration des politiques liées aux extensions génériques. Le GNSO rassemble deux principaux groupes : les entités liées par contrat avec l’ICANN (les registres et les registrars) et celles qui n’ont pas ce type de liens contractuels (les fournisseurs d’accès à Internet (FAI), les utilisateurs commerciaux, et non commerciaux, et le secteur de la propriété industrielle).
Toutes ces entités sont regroupées en collèges afin de leur donner une représentation officielle au sein de l’ICANN.
by Kieren McCarthy on July 23, 2008
The July edition of the ICANN magazine is out, emailed to subscribers and available for review online.
Each issue covers the latest news and events, plus outlines how you can interact with the organization. This month, alongside the usual policy rundown, compliance summary, Board meeting precis, public comment digest, and blog complendium, is a briefing note for the recent Paris meeting and some early details about the Cairo meeting.
by Kieren McCarthy on April 14, 2008
The April issue of ICANN’s magazine is out. It was emailed to subscribers on Friday night and has been posted online today, Monday 14 April.
In it, we provide updates on three policy areas: translation, SSAC, and new gTLDs. It also provide summaries of all 2008 Board meetings so far; interviews with the CEO and NomCom chair Hagen Hultzsch; the history behind ICANN’s efforts to deal with domain tasting; and sections covering recent blog discussions, public comment periods, and other ICANN-related news.
by Tina Dam on February 22, 2008
One topic that kept being misunderstood at the ICANN meeting in India was ‘what is the purpose of the IDN wiki’ – the example.test site that are actual IDN TLDs in the root. I’ll try to explain what is going on with the wiki and what it can and cannot be used for.
First some background and clarifying information. Having your script/language represented in the wiki is not a pre-requisite for eventually getting an IDN TLD in the root. These 11 languages/scripts are merely being used to evaluate usability of IDNs in applications. The “example.test” strings in the wiki were translated into the specified languages and then represented by the associated scripts.
by Kieren McCarthy on October 25, 2007
It’s been a long while since we posted a factsheet - a clear guide to a technical subject written in plain English. Today we publish one on a very technical, but very important subject: IPv6.
Internet Protocol version 6 is important for the Internet’s continued expansion for future generations. The number of free address under the [...]
by Kieren McCarthy on October 22, 2007
In the past few days, ICANN has put up a large number of documents for public comment, so this is a blog post just to make you aware of the fact. They include:
Registry failover plan - the method by which registrants will be protected in the event of a failure
Telnic Whois contract change - [...]
by Kieren McCarthy on October 4, 2007
There is a letter [pdf] from the Universal Postal Union (UPU) to ICANN concerning the use of their sTLD .post that may well have important implications for the future evolution of the domain name system.
This letter was received on 5 September and immediately posted on ICANN’s website. The letter specifically expressed the wish to have [...]
by Kieren McCarthy on September 26, 2007
Yesterday, we published a “San Juan to Los Angeles” newsletter to all those subscribed to ICANN meetings updates (you can subscribe here), covering ICANN “intersessional” work i.e. the flow of work between main ICANN meetings - in this case between San Juan in June, and Los Angeles, running from 29 October to 2 November.
You can [...]
by Patrick Jones on August 22, 2007
The GNSO is currently conducting fact-finding on domain tasting. ICANN posted a Request for Information on 10 August, and information may be submitted through 15 September 2007. Comments may be submitted to rfi-domaintasting@icann.org and viewed at http://forum.icann.org/lists/rfi-domaintasting/. Answers and information can also be submitted to the survey at https://www.bigpulse.com/872i.
For background, please see the Issues Report [...]
