[ispcp] [ SECRETARIAT ] ICANN Holds a Regional Meeting in Taiwan

["Mark McFadden - ISPCP Secretariat" <mcfadden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-20sep07.htm

 

ICANN, TWNIC Host "Toward the New Era of Internet" in Taipei

 

Internationalized domain names, Internet security key topics at three-day
meeting

 

20 September 2007

 

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers is joining forces with the Taiwan Network Information Centre

(TWNIC) to host a special regional meeting - "Toward the New Era of
Internet" - in Taipei 19-21 October 2007.

 

"ICANN, TWNIC, and the global Internet community are tackling some of the
most important issues impacting the Internet since its creation," 

said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN's President and CEO. "This meeting is an
opportunity for technical communities, Internet businesses, and policy
makers from the Asia-Pacific to come together and share thoughts and ideas
on how we can move forward together."

 

Some of the meeting highlights include:

 

     * Internet security and the challenges it presents to governments,
service providers, and end-users

     * The need for a migration to IPv6, with its 340 trillion trillion
trillion Internet Protocol addresses, because of the depletion of the
widely-used IPv4 space

     * One of the last official ICANN functions for Board Chair Vint Cerf,
whose term ends at the Los Angeles International Public Meeting at the end
of October.

     * ICANN's progress on implementing internationalized domain names
(IDNs), which have the goal of adding to the 37 characters presently
available for domain names to tens of thousands of characters from many of
the languages of the world.

 

"IDNs are going to change the face of the Internet when they arrive - it
will give people the chance to register domain names with their names in
their languages," Dr Twomey added. "ICANN is about to launch a technical
evaluation of the impact IDNs will have, and if all goes well
internationalized domain names could be available sometime in 2008."

 

Links to the agenda and registration for the Taipei meeting are online

at: http://taipei2007.icann.org/.

 

(From the gNSO Secretariat)

 

Mark McFadden

Secretariat, ISPCP Constituency

mcfadden@xxxxxxxxxx