ICANN Read-out Livestream event Feb. 13, 2018 4-5 EST Learn more about how the Internet is governed. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) readouts are outreach events designed to inform Internet end users about evolving issues at the international level.
Speakers at this event will highlight: -- ongoing controversies in the top-level domain space (is .amazon a region or a company?), -- jurisdictional concerns around ICANN as a legal entity under California law, and -- rapidly emerging privacy issues involving Whois and the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The session will open with a quick primer on ICANN - why end user participation matters and how to get involved in the multistakeholderism model.
Speakers: Joe Catapano & Chris Mondini, ICANN Stakeholder engagement team; Stephanie Perrin, privacy expert and member of ICANN's Generic Name Supporting Organization (GNSO) council;Allan McGillivery, Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) senior policy advisor; others TBA
https://livestream.com/internetsociety/preicann61