[kictanet] ICANN, TWNIC Host "Toward the New Era of Internet"

[Alex Gakuru]

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/.
-- 
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org


       
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