Forwarded from Denise Michel Glen, Could you please send this New TLDs Workshop notice to your GNSO constituencies email list and ask them to share it with their members? Thanks. Denise michel@icann.org ========NOTICE============ INVITATION TO WORKSHOP ON NEW TOP LEVEL DOMAINS Your constituency members are invited to participate in the “Domain Name Users Workshop: New Top Level Domains" scheduled for Sunday, 10 July 2005, from 14:30 -17:00 in the LuxExpo's "Salle 10” room in Luxembourg City. All individuals interested in the current new sTLD process, and the issues that must be resolved to move forward on the introduction of new gTLDs, are encouraged to attend the Workshop. In addition to providing an overview of current activities and key stakeholder concerns and positions in this area, there will be an open discussion of how individual Internet users are affected by the introduction of new top level domains. The agenda is included below. We would appreciate it if you would post and distribute this invitation to your constituency members. Thank you for your assistance Sincerely, The At-Large Advisory Committee committee@alac.icann.org www.alac.icann.org ------------------------------------------- DOMAIN NAME USERS WORKSHOP: NEW TOP LEVEL DOMAINS Sunday, 10 July 2005 14:30 – 17:00 LuxExpo <http://www.icannluxembourg.org/en/Venue.php>, Luxembourg City Open discussion of how individual Internet users are affected by the introduction of new top level domains Sponsored by the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee <http://www.alac.icann.org/> (ALAC) AGENDA *14:30 Welcome and Introductions* ~ Vittorio Bertola, Chair, ALAC *New Sponsored Top Level Domains (sTLDs)* ~ What are they? How are they chosen? When will they launch? What do they mean for individual Internet users? Can we expect more? ICANN’s Board has designated .JOBS and .TRAVEL as new sponsored top level domains (sTLDs), and five more applications are pending: .MOBI, .XXX, .CAT, .POST, .ASIA, .MAIL, .TEL-Pulver, and .TEL-Telnic. How will they benefit the world’s individual Internet users? What are their deployment plans, including initially-reserved names and registration of personal names? How will they apply internationalized domain names (IDNs)? What is their perspective on ICANN’s current sTLD process and what are their suggestions for ICANN’s future process for the introduction of new TLDs? *Introductions and Overview of the sTLD Process* ~ Bret Fausett, ALAC GNSO Liaison (Moderator) *New sTLD: .JOBS* ~ Ray Fassett, Executive VP, Operations & Policy, Employ Media LLC. *Pending sTLD:* *. XXX* ~ Stuart Lawley, Chairman, ICM Registry *Questions/Discussion* *New Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs)* ~ How are they different from sTLDs? What process for introducing new gTLDs (or more sTLDs) would most benefit the world’s registrants ….and the world’s individual Internet users? How should ICANN promote such objectives as: registrant choice; value to individual Internet users; an open and competitive domain name market; TLD applications in major non-English languages; and a wider geographical distribution of TLD registries (to name a few)? ICANN’s Board designated seven new gTLDs in 2000: .AERO, .BIZ, .COOP, .INFO, .MUSEUM, .NAME, and .PRO. Since then, ICANN has been considering technical, economic, operational, legal, public policy and other issues involved in new TLDs, and has proposed a “New gTLD Implementation Strategy.” *Introductions and Overview of the gTLD Process* ~ Bret Fausett, ALAC Liaison (Moderator) *ICANN’s Strategy and Timeline for New gTLDs *~ Olof Nordling, Manager, ICANN *At-Large Advisory Cmt. Recommendations* ~ Wendy Seltzer, ALAC member (via phone) *Recommendations of Business/Intellectual Property/Internet Service Providers* ~ Philip Sheppard, member, Business Constituency and GNSO Council *Questions/Discussion* *Next Steps for At-Large Community *~ Bret Fausett, ALAC Liaison* *17:00 Close* -- Glen de Saint Géry ICANN glen[at]icann.org http://www.icann.org