Africa: The 27th International Public Meeting Of ICANN
Arquivo do Clipping 2006
Veículo: Domains Magazine
Data: 09/11/2006
Assunto: ICANN Meeting
The Samba country of Brazil will host the 27th international public meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), early next month at the city of Sao Paulo.
As a private-public partnership (PPP), ICANN has been dedicated to the preservation of the operational stability of the Internet, promote competition so as to achieve broad representation of global Internet communities and develop appropriate policies to spur its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.
ICANN meets three times annually around the world since March 1999 in Singapore and this has constituted an essential part of ICANN's global consensus-development and outreach efforts.
The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) said that as the organizers of the ICANN meeting at São Paulo, it promises to offer visibility and exposition opportunities for the participants, just as they expect over 600 Internet enthusiasts to attend the meeting.
Members of the organising committee, Messrs Antônio Alberto Tavares and Hartmut Richard Glaser told Highway Africa News Agency (HANA) that participants are expected to come from over 80 different nations across the globe.
They also said that these include senior government representatives, C-level executives namely the chief executive officers (CEOs), chief financial officers (CFO), chief operating officers (COOs) to name a few, alongside entrepreneurs, and executives of large companies.
Local attendees, they said, would cut across significant part of the public meeting, even as Internet providers, telecomm operators, press and heavy corporate users are billed to grace the six-day meeting.
According to conference organizers the ICANN meetings promote discussions on major challenges related to Internet governance, taking into consideration the international scenarios and rules providing decisions with impact on the whole technological world. While appealing for sponsorship, the organisers noted that it would avail the potential sponsors the opportunity to introduce their products to over 600 influential people of the world, thereby standing out within the global internet community as key player, just as leveraging on the contacts thereof.
It has also been gathered that the meeting, taking place at the Hotel Transamérica São Paulo, Av. das Nações Unidas, 18591, would be educating participants on the essence of ICANN and plans for the future through public roundtable discussions.
Top on the agenda, would be the discussion on Sunday, December 3, on "Welcome to ICANN, Here's What it Means to You" to be followed by the issues bothering on the Internet Protocol version six (IPv6), alternate dispute resolution mechanism, Internationalised Domain Names (IDN) and a closed session of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) working groups.
On Monday, December 4, would feature the official opening of the event with Presidential report, ICANN public forum, domain name market place update, public forum on the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), promulgation of the new draft recommendations on Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) and WhoIs improvements.
The third day of the conference will be dedicated to Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) members meeting, the GAC plenary, GNSO constituency meetings and public forum.
The fourth day being Wednesday, December 6 has been scheduled to begin with CCNSO council meeting, followed by GAC plenary and GNSO council meeting with workshops on IDN, president's strategy committee and ICANN future structure session.
On Thursday, December 7, the meeting would devote the entire day to public forum and the last day, Friday, would feature the board meeting of the present Internet custodian, ICANN, just as the registration has already open for the event.
The organisers have further promised that Internet access would available at the Internet lounge on wireless connectivity 802.11b as well as at the main meeting and public areas.
The two other meetings of this year were held March and June in Wellington, New Zealand and Marrakech, Morocco.
