Global Internet manager - ICANN - comes to Sydney in 2009
The world’s top Internet and domain name management organisation, the International Corporation on Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is coming to Australia.
Its next quarterly meeting will be held in Sydney from June 21-26 and the website for both closed and the open public parts of the meeting has now been launched.
Advance registrations are now being processed at the web site which can be found at http://syd.icann.org.
Registration is free, and more than a thousand people are expected to attend the meeting, many coming from all over the world just to attend.
Significant items on the agenda will include the proposed new system enabling anyone who has enough funds and resources to set up their own global domain, such as dot.gm or dot nyc or dot.citigroup.
The meeting will also look at other hot topics, such as enabling Internet domain names in Asian language character sets.
Existing ICANN subs-groups, such as the country code managers, will also hold their meetings under the umbrella of the overall meeting.
ICANN has recently been in the local news because its Australian President and chief executive, Paul Twomey, announced his decision to step down last month.
The Sydney meeting is being supported and hosted by AusRegistry International, the registry operator of the .au domain name database, and local industry regulator auDomain Administration Ltd.
ICANN has just finished its latest meeting in Mexico, where there were around 1,200 people attending.
For more information go to
syd.icann.org
www.auda.org.au
www.ausregistry.com
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