Dear friends, the 9th meeting of the ICANN Studienkreis takes place in Helsinki, September 4 - 5, 2008. This years subject is "Internet Governance and Domain Names: Broader Cyberspace, Mobile Internet and New Market Opportunities". The first day will have two Panels: One on Internet development in Finland and one on the future institutional arrangements on Internet Governance, including the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the JPA follow up and the planned At Large Summit. On the second day various Panels will discuss issues like new TLDs, iDNs, IPv6 and the future of the Internet. The iDN panel will discuss the special case of Russia with leading experts from Moscow. Thanks to the sponsors, there is no conference fee. Registration takes place on a first come, first served basis via www.icann-studienkreis.net <https://server1.medienkomm.uni-halle.de/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www...> . Due to the size of the conference hall we have a limitation up to 100 participants. Fell free to distribute the invitation as widely as possible. Best regards Wolfgang