La ICANN publicó las presentaciones y grabaciones de la reunión de Registros y Registradores de Norteamérica, llevada a cabo en Los Ángeles los días 17 y 18 de mayo de 2012. Si bien el evento estuvo destinado a los registradores regionales acreditados por la ICANN y a los registros de gTLD, una cantidad importante de [...]

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توفر ICANN محاضرات وتسجيلات جلسة سجلات ومسجلين أمريكا الشمالية التي أقيمت في لوس أنجلوس في 17 – 18 مايو 2012. ورغم أن الحدث هو مخصص للمسجلين المعتمدين من قبل ICANN وسجلات gTLD، فقد حضر عدد كبير من المراقبين أيضاً. حيث حضر حوالي 80 مشاركاً بشكل شخصي و30 مشاركاً عن بعد. وتعتبر تلك الأحداث الإقليمية فرصة [...]

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Earlier this month, DomainNameWire.com published an article about ICANN’s policy development process. The author, Andrew Allemann, strives for balance but overall leaves the impression that ICANN has “policy overload,” handling too many policy efforts at once. Andrew also cites the technical and complex topics we ask the public to comment upon. Since I was quoted [...]

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Earlier today, Chuck Gomes was selected by the new GNSO Council as its chair. The voting procedure needed 60 percent of both of the new houses – contracted and non-contracted – to vote in favour. A first round vote with Chuck Gomes and Olga Cavalli saw Chuck Gomes win 100 percent of the contracted house [...]

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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, [...]

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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. [...]

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One particularly important aspect of ICANN’s launch of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will be the availability of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) at the top level. That eagerly anticipated enhancement to Internet participation has also raised some issues. For example, current practice dictates that gTLDs contain at least three characters – two-character Latin TLDs are [...]

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One of the consistent pieces of feedback I receive as ICANN’s Chief Financial Officer is that people want to know what it is that the organization is spending its money on. We have been been working hard to come up with ways of showing this clearly, especially so over the past year. ICANN is a [...]

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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.

Click here to jump to the meeting agenda

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).

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