[Discuss] ICANN, TWNIC Host “Toward the New E ra of Internet”- IDN Key topic

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:08:08 -0700 

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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