Posted on December 16, 2008, 5:08 am, by Kieren McCarthy, under
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This is a Response and Summary to the Cairo public forum that took place on 6 November 2008.
A PDF version of this document is available at: http://www.icann.org/en/participate/cairo-public-forum-response.pdf
Note from the Chairman:
One of the most significant features of ICANN meetings is the Public Forum, where members of the ICANN community are able to present their views on issues of concern to them to the ICANN Board, in public session. The fact that we rotate meetings through each of the geographic sectors of the world enhances the opportunity that people from every region to present their views to the ICANN Board, in the presence of Staff and the whole ICANN community.
As a long-time participant from the floor presenting views, in my case from the ccTLD community, I am well aware of the time, effort and expense that goes into the preparation of such statements. As a board member, I have valued hearing those submissions, from individuals, governments and constituencies. I am determined as Chair to continue this tradition, and to maximise the opportunities for information sharing it represents.
ICANN is pleased to release an updated draft Implementation Plan for the IDN ccTLD fast track process [PDF, 265K]. The updated document contains clarifying information about the notion of IDN tables. An IDN Table is a table listing all those characters that a particular TLD registry supports. If one or more of these characters are […]
ICANN is pleased to make the Draft Implementation Plan for the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process available for public discussions. The Draft Implementation Plan can be found here [PDF, 297K]. The IDN Fast Track Process is a mechanism recommended by the IDNC Working Group, focused on the introduction of a limited number of non contentious […]
The IDNC WG recommended that as part of the implementation plan of the IDN ccTLD “fast-track” process a request for information (RFI) is sent out to all territories to gain an understanding of the interest of individual territories to participate in the Fast Track process. Participation in the RFI is not be mandatory to be […]
Posted on July 18, 2008, 3:32 pm, by Kieren McCarthy, under
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As with previous meetings, we have prepared a “briefing note” for Paris to act as a broad summary of what happened over the five days. It has been published on the Paris meeting site and we republish it below.
What was it?
ICANN’s 32nd international public meeting was one of three held annually to conduct policy […]
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Draft Final Report – Recommendations for Fast Track – For Public Comment – Version 0.4 [PDF, 96K] On 13 June 2008 the IDNC WG published its draft Final Report. The IDNC WG now publishes now an update of its first draft to include the results of the various face-to face meeting discussions of the first […]
