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-- ICANN, TWNIC Host "Toward the New Era of Internet" in
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Alert
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-20sep07.htm
ICANN, TWNIC Host "Toward the
New Era of Internet" in Taipei
Internationalized domain names,
Internet security key topics at three-day meeting
20 September 2007
MARINA DEL REY,
“ICANN,
TWNIC, and the global Internet community are tackling some of the most
important issues impacting the Internet since its creation,” said Dr Paul
Twomey, ICANN’s President and CEO. “This meeting is an opportunity for
technical communities, Internet businesses, and policy makers from the
Asia-Pacific to come together and share thoughts and ideas on how we can move
forward together.”
Some
of the meeting highlights include:
- Internet security and the challenges it presents
to governments, service providers, and end-users
- The need for a migration to IPv6, with its 340
trillion trillion trillion Internet Protocol addresses, because of the
depletion of the widely-used IPv4 space
- One of the last official ICANN functions for
Board Chair Vint Cerf, whose term ends at the Los Angeles International
Public Meeting at the end of October.
- ICANN’s progress on implementing
internationalized domain names (IDNs), which have the goal of adding to
the 37 characters presently available for domain names to tens of
thousands of characters from many of the languages of the world.
“IDNs
are going to change the face of the Internet when they arrive -- it will give
people the chance to register domain names with their names in their
languages,” Dr Twomey added. “ICANN is about to launch a technical evaluation
of the impact IDNs will have, and if all goes well internationalized domain
names could be available sometime in 2008.”
Links
to the agenda and registration for the
About ICANN:
ICANN
is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique
identifiers like domain names (like .org, .museum and country codes like .uk)
and the addresses used in a variety of Internet protocols that help computers
reach each other over the Internet. Careful management of these resources is
vital to the Internet's operation, so ICANN's global stakeholders meet
regularly to develop policies that ensure the Internet's ongoing security and
stability. ICANN is an internationally organized, public benefit non-profit
company. For more information please visit: www.icann.org.
Media Contacts:
Jason
Keenan
Media Adviser, ICANN (USA)
Ph: +1 310 382 4004
E: jason.keenan@icann.org
International:
Andrew Robertson
Edelman (
Ph: +44 7921 588 770
E: andrew.robertson@edelman.com
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