by Jon Lawrence on September 16, 2009
Last week I attended the “Second International Conference for ccTLD Registries and Registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe”, held in the picturesque lakeside town of Bled, in Slovenia. Bled is one of the most beautiful places I’ve had the pleasure to visit and the conference, despite its rather cumbersome title, was similarly [...]
by Kieren McCarthy on February 23, 2009
The Mexico City meeting is now accessible on your phone.
So if you are attending the conference next week but can’t remember which meeting is on at which time or in what room, you can now access the information directly and quickly using your cell or mobile phone.
The full schedule is available at http://icann.mobi.
The mobile version [...]
by Kieren McCarthy on February 11, 2009
If you were at the Cairo meeting, you will know that there was no small degree of irritation about the time that was available for the traditional open mic session on the Thursday.
If people are really keen, I can explain why that came about, but perhaps more importantly, we have ensured that there is plenty of time available at the Mexico City meeting next month for “public forum”.
In fact, there is four-and-a-half hours dedicated forum time: 90 minutes on the Monday solely covering the Applicant Guidebook; 30 minutes at the end of the Joint ACSO meeting; and two-and-a-half hours open-mic time on the Thursday.
Click here to visit the online question box
Just to be clear: this is more open-mic time than at any ICANN meeting since Vancouver in 2005, and that meeting was marked out as being where both the dotcom contract and the .xxx application were discussed. We are also starting to separate out the delivery of reports (AC/SO chairs, staff and Board Committees) from “public forum” time, meaning open microphone time. That means that open microphone time is not dependent on anything else and stands alone as dedicated time.
by Kieren McCarthy on January 21, 2009
ICANN está buscando un anfitrión para su reunión de 2010 en Latinoamérica. Se espera que los participantes en la región presenten una Expresión de interés para ser la sede de la conferencia que tendrá lugar del 20 al 25 de junio de 2010.
Las reuniones públicas de ICANN convocan a personas de todo el mundo y atraen un amplio abanico de participantes interesados en problemas sobre el trato y la política de Internet. La prensa internacional cubre la información de estas reuniones y ofrece una oportunidad ideal a los participantes, patrocinadores y anfitriones para colaborar en la solución de problemas clave de Internet.