I’m heading off to Los Angeles in the morning to attend the ICANN meeting.
I’ll try to blog a bit from there either on here or on my personal blog or my domain news blog (you’re spoilt for choice!).
The meeting agenda is available online.
If you’re not a big fan of TLAs (three letter acronyms) then it’s probably a nightmare trying to decipher the timetable.
As you can see there are meetings running from Saturday until Friday on the main timetable.
At events like this there will also be a lot of informal meetings going on all day and all night.
Some of the topics that will be on the agenda this time round include:
- Whois – since nobody can agree on this one (except that they need to do something about it) you can expect to see it on the agenda again and again
- New Gtlds – what will be the next big thing? How will ICANN decide what is allowed and what isn’t?
- Translation – we live in a multilingual and multicultural world.
- Registrar Accreditation Agreement – the contract that all registrars sign with ICANN. It hasn’t changed in years, so it’s currently under review
- Security topics – everyone has to take an interest in security these days. It’s unavoidable. ICANN includes representatives from all areas, so discussions can cover a range of topics
- Domain tasting – it doesn’t seem to be down as an agenda item, but I can imagine that someone will bring it up at some point
One of the areas that ICANN has been working hard on improving is that of public participation, so you can pose questions to panels even if you are on the other side of the globe. More information can usually be found on the public participation site or the ICANN blog.
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