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Participation at meetings
There is an ongoing issue about how to have real and effective remote participation at ICANN meetings.
As most of you will hopefully be aware, a specific website is set up for each meeting - you can see Delhi's here: http://del.icann.org/, and Paris' at http://par.icann.org - where a webpage is provided for every meeting. That webpage contains its own chatroom; it contains the agenda, links to presentations , and, when over, a link to the transcript.
However there is still a disconnect and an advantage if you are physically in the room. As an Internet organisation trying to serve a global audience with limited resources, ICANN wants to get to the point where participation is real and possible remotely.
Add your ideas, have a discussion, review what others think at this dedicated forum to improving remote participation.
The biggest issue from experience is time. Meetings start and go extremely quickly from the perspective of someone not in the room. Often meetings happen at inappropriate times for those that wish to attend. Sometimes by the time a question raised remotely can be introduced into the conversation, the conversation has moved on. And this in itself discourages interaction.
So the question is: what can be done to fix this? Is the answer to make sure agendas are posted earlier? How can this be enforced? Should questions be accepted ahead of time? Should meetings on one topic be stretched over several days, allowing for more effective remote input?
What are the practicalities? How do you get the physical meeting to take remote input seriously? What needs to be done? ICANN is very interested in your views on this. And for that reason we have set up a forum on this site in order to help the community discuss, review, brainstorm and formulate possible solutions which ICANN will then experiment with in an effort to provide the global community with a more effective route into the organisation's work.
Add your ideas, have a discussion, review what others think at this dedicated forum to improving remote participation.
Proposed Criteria for the New .IDN TLD allocation
It is necessary to discovered that what kind of planning is going to be formed for the issuance of new TLDs (IDN.IDN, .IDN, gTLD, ccTLD)?
Which of the following basis or criteria is proposed:
1. "first come first serve" or
2. "intellectual property rights only" or
3. "by offering to existing registrars of other TLDs before allowing to Public?"
4. "by keeping in view to maintain Internet with through monopolists?"
5. "to selected companies assigned or authorized by regional government"
ICANN authorities comments and public response is requested.
Imran Ahmed Shah
Pakistan's .pk ccTLD engages ICANN
The Pakistani user, business and technical communities welcome the recent Pakistani ccTLD "PKNIC" (www.pknic.net.pk) move to explore ways in which to engage ICANN in a constructive dialogue on a possible particpation framework. The precise framework is still under discussion. However, this is a good positive step and a mutually beneficial result is expected. The importance of ICANN in development of international best practice for ccTLDs and in itself an example of an evolving muti-community model is recognised.
Urdu Language - Domain naming convention
I have gone through the ICANN.org website and activities but could not found any activity or proposal for Urdu Language naming convention and translation of Domain Names.
There should be some planning and procedure in this regards.
Imran Ahmed Shah
Community Representation from Pakistan (South Asia)
I am also worried that there is no sponsorship, registrar, fellowship or even a small level of membership alloted to the community of Pakistan which is on a good level of World Bank economic Directory.
Trends of Chinese IDN(展望中文域名未来走向)
网络信息化时代，造就了我们新的工作和生活方式，其互联、开放和共享信息的模式，打破了传统信息传播方式的重重壁垒，为我们带来了新的机遇和挑战。网络在不断的发展，也带动了网络门牌号码——域名的发展，域名种类越来越多，含意也越来越丰富，但人们的需求还是不能得到满足，中文域名的推出是一大进步。近年来，随着中文母语上网速度的加快，越来越多的企业和个人使用中文域名。
End of Summer Time in Europe and Remote Participation
Europe moved from summer time to winter time last night but the California won't do so until next weekend. This means that for the week of the ICANN meeting the time difference between Europe and the US is different than normal.
Anyone who wants to follow the sessions at this week's meeting will need to take account of the difference in the normal time calculations this week.
On Monday at 9am in Los Angeles it will be 5pm in Brussels and 4pm in Lisbon which is one hour earlier than last week.
La historia de Internet - "the Latin American experience"
Hoy publicamos en el blog de ICANN un "podcast" (un programa de audio por Internet) que tiene como título: "la historia de Internet y los ccTLDs en América Latina". Cubre entrevistas a cuatro operadores de ccTLDs latinoamericanos: a Rafal Ibarra (.sv), Edna Samudio (.pa), Marvin Castañeda (.ni) y Clara Collado (.do).
Está disponible en:
El archivo de audio lo pueden escuchar y/o descargar en:
http://audio.icann.org/global-partnerships/historia01.mp3
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