[kictanet] [SUSPECTED SPAM] ICANN and INTERPOL Meet in Lyon, France

[Alice Munyua]

/*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*/

/*May 23, 2011*/


  *INTERPOL and ICANN Advance Cooperation on Internet Security *


  *after Historic First Meeting*

/*Lyon, France*/– A landmark visit today to INTERPOL’s General 
Secretariat headquarters by top officials from the Internet Corporation 
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has provided both international 
bodies with an opportunity to explore avenues for closer collaboration 
on Internet security.

With cyber-security, financial & high tech crime high on the agenda, 
talks between ICANN President and CEO Rod Beckstrom and INTERPOL 
Secretary General Ronald K. Noble focused on Internet security 
governance and enhancing common means for preventing and addressing 
Internet crime. Mr. Beckstrom’s delegation also included ICANN’s Vice 
President and Chief Security Officer, Jeff Moss, Vice President of 
Government Affairs Jamie Hedlund, and Alice Jansen of its Organizational 
Reviews unit.

"We seek the active engagement of law enforcement in our 
multi-stakeholder community where all parties are welcome.  We recognize 
Interpol as an important international leader in this field,” said Mr. 
Beckstrom.  “We are very pleased by its expression of interest in 
joining the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee as an observer.”

With ICANN the global coordinator of domain names and Internet protocol 
addresses, and INTERPOL the world’s largest international police 
organization, Secretary General Noble said: /“/Both organizations are 
international, both are politically neutral, and both are focused on the 
good of the world. Both also care about improving the security of the 
Internet for the future."

  “The Internet has no borders, and neither do the criminals who exploit 
it. As the Internet's role in society continues to increase in scope and 
importance, it is vital for INTERPOL to help create bridges between the 
international law enforcement community it represents and ICANN in order 
to advance Internet security practices for the benefit to all,” added 
Secretary General Noble.

As part of efforts to enhance their cooperation, both organizations 
agreed during the visit that an INTERPOL delegation would attend ICANN’s 
international conference in Singapore next month, 20-24 June, when 
INTERPOL’s membership of the ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee 
(GAC) as an international observer will be explored.

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To download a high resolution pictures of the ICANN/Interpol meeting go 
here:

    * http://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/5751829780/sizes/l/in/photostream/
    * http://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/5751283829/sizes/l/in/photostream/
    * http://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/5751826842/sizes/l/in/photostream/
    * http://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/5751279679/sizes/l/in/photostream/

*MEDIA CONTACTS: *

Brad White

ICANN Director of Global Media Affairs

Washington, DC

Tel. +1 (202) 570 7118

brad.white at icann.org <mailto:brad.white at icann.org>

Pietro Calcaterra

INTERPOL Press Office

Lyon, France

press at interpol.int <mailto:press at interpol.int>

Tel: +33 4 72 44 71 69

/*About ICANN: *//ICANN’s mission is to ensure a stable, secure and 
unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you 
have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That 
address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. 
ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without 
that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed 
in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with 
participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet 
secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops 
policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers. ICANN doesn’t control 
content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn’t deal with 
access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the 
Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the 
expansion and evolution of the Internet./*/For more information please 
visit: /*/*www.icann.org* <http://www.icann.org/>/*/./*

/*About INTERPOL: *//INTERPOL is the world’s largest international 
police organization, with 188 member countries. Created in 1923, it 
facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists 
all organizations, authorities and services whose mission is to prevent 
or combat international crime. The world police body has six priority 
crime areas: Drugs and criminal organizations, Financial and high-tech 
crime, Fugitives, Public safety and terrorism, Trafficking in human 
beings, and Corruption. /*/For more information please visit: 
http://www.interpol.org//*

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