From the category archives:
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 [...]
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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 – [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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As anyone reading this will hopefully be aware, starting next year there will be a more consistent and relaxed mechanism for adding new gTLDs to the Internet. Which leads to an inevitable and interesting question: what new generic top-level domains would be useful and/or successful as the Internet continues to evolve?
I have been pondering this [...]
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A vital part of ICANN’s processes is the opportunity for there to be public comment on each substantial piece of work before it is put forward for final approval.
However, the organisation has been criticised in the past for not flagging these public comment periods clearly enough, and it is fair to say that in many [...]
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La propuesta de principios sobre transparencia y rendición de cuentas incluye una sección sobre traducción, la cual se discutirá durante la reunión de San Juan en junio de 2007.
Dichos principios de traducción presentan un marco amplio para traducir los documentos de ICANN, pero no llega a establecer soluciones prácticas. El propósito de esta nota es [...]
As part of a number of draft management operating principle documents at its San Juan meeting in June 2007, ICANN produced a translation framework.
That document outlined the principles and broad framework for translating documents within the ICANN system, but did not go into real or practical solutions. The purpose of this note is to recognise [...]
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In March, ICANN released a report by the One World Trust (OWT) into ICANN that came up with 39 recommendations to further improve standards of accountability and transparency within the organisation. That report is also being used as input into the development of management operating principles that will be released for comment at the upcoming [...]
