discovering and participating at icann
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Discovering and Participating at ICANN !
!bdNOG1 – Dhaka, Bangladesh !23 May 2014 !
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What does ICANN do?!
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+ Domain Name System (DNS)
+ Internet Protocol (IP) Address Allocation
+ Protocol-Parameter Registry
+ Root Server Systems
+ Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLD) system management
+ Country-code Top-Level Domain Name (ccTLD) DNS
+ Time Zone Database Management
Functions that ICANN Coordinates!
+Every Stakeholder has an interest in how the internet develops
+No single
stakeholder is more important than any other
Multistakeholder Model!
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ICANN in Asia Pacific!
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!APAC Engagement Strategy!
Focus A
reas -‐Awareness Building
-‐Capacity Development -‐Language Localiza<on -‐Mee<ng Format -‐Increase Stakeholder Par<cipa<on
Pilots -‐KISA-‐ICANN MoU
-‐NextGen@ICANN -‐Asia-‐Pacific Internet Leadership Project -‐APRICOT 2014 -‐Centre of Excellence for DNS *in collabora*on with partners
Others -‐ Servicing
Contracted Par<es -‐ APTLD/APNIC/ICANN joint training for Jus<ce Sector -‐ Southeast Asia Tour -‐ CommunicAsia Exhibi<on
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Profiling Bangladesh’s Voice!
+ At-Large Committee (ALAC) + Represents end-users
+ Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) + Key role to advice ICANN on issues of public policy + Usually meets 3x a year in conjunction with ICANN
meetings
+ Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) + Body created for and by ccTLD managers + Responsible for developing and recommending
global policies to ICANN Board
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New gTLDs Program!
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• How many strings delegated to date? http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/statistics • Examples of delegated strings:
Internationalized Domain Names
• Domain names in non-Latin-based (US-ASCII) scripts – e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek …
• An IDN Variant TLD is an IDN TLD that looks like or is considered interchangeable with another by a user of the related writing system – e.g. in Simplified & Traditional Chinese
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Arabic Bengali Chinese Cyrillic
Devanagari
Georgian Greek Gujara< Gurmukhi
Hebrew Japanese
Korean La<n Sinhala Tamil Telugu Thai
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ICANN Accountability & Role in Ecosystem !
+ NETmundial (23 – 24 April 2014)
+ IANA transition of stewardship
+ Accountability
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How can you get involved?!+ APAC Webinar + Bi-monthly, every 2nd Thursday, 11am (SG time) + 12 June, “Becoming a new gTLD registry, what’s next?”
+ APAC Newsletter + Subscribe to bi-monthly newsletter at
+ Visit ICANN.org + get the latest resources on the topic + follow us on our social channels + join to contribute and/or follow the discussion
Thank You & Questions?!