Organization: ICANN

Title :

Proponent
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN: An internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. As a private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.

Purpose
The purpose of the open forum is to highlight ICANN’s multi-stakeholder model and explain how its policy development process works through the various supporting organizations and advisory committees.

Content
The forum aims at shedding some light on areas where extensive work has been achieved with respect to policy development, and a lot more is still underway in relation to implementation. Areas such as:

• Introduction of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) including a mechanism to “quickly” make this feasible in the country code space (Fast Track)
• Expanding the domain name space and opening the door for new generic top level domains (gTLDs) to enter into the root
• Ensuring stability and security of the DNS and other Unique Identifiers in an environment of more frequent and more sophisticated attacks
• Monitoring IPv4 depletion and providing leadership through IPv6 adoption

Participants Representatives from a diverse range of stakeholder groups will participate in the forum, with attention given to ensuring individuals also come from different regions. This will include but will not be limited to: those running country-code and generic top-level domains, governments, Internet service providers, Internet end-users, and technical experts.

Agenda

• Speeches / Presentations: Each panelist, 8 minutes. (56 mins)
• Open forum --Q&A. (34 mins).

Panelists will include:

• Avri Doria, GNSO Chair
• Bertrand de La Chapelle, GAC Vice Chair
• Cheryl Langdon-Orr, ALAC Chair
• Chris Disspain, ccNSO Chair
• Paul Twomey, ICANN CEO/President
• Paul Wilson, NRO Chair