Public participation site

What it is: The meeting is the main policy related meeting for At-Large in Lisbon. Along with guest speakers, the delegates will seek to agree on policy statements covering three areas of current ICANN policy work: Domain Monetisation / Tasting, Registry/Registrar Practices of Concern to End-Users, and Internationalised Domain Names.

Why it's important: The two regions and ALAC, after consulting with the other regions, expect to conclude statements on policy areas under discussion in other constituencies.

What it is: The second session of the AFRALO at Lisbon is expected to be devoted to discussing the policy areas the region wishes to focus on and the regionally-specific view on the afternoon session with ALAC and the European ALS meeting topics.

Why it's important: This is the main opportunity for the African ALS community to set the policy priorities in a face-to-face setting in 2007.

Yesterday's presentations by Alex Le Heux, João Damas and Gert Döring inspired an interesting discussion on IPv6 deployment issues. The session transcript has been published on the main meeting web site and a video archive of the discussion will be made available for download some time next week. Here are some key points from the discussion:

• About one third of TLDs already have IPv6 active for at least one of their nameservers

If the number of uniquely numbered network interfaces connected to the Internet continues to grow at the rate we've been seeing for the last few years the free pool of IPv4 addresses will be exhausted and a new address space will be required. That address space is IPv6 and the RIRs have been allocating it to ISPs since 1999.

Although the 6bone IPv6 testbed network was officially closed on 6 June 2006, deployment of IPv6 on production networks is not yet widespread.

ALAC Committee meeting, Thursday

What it is: This third session of the ALAC will feature a meeting with the Ombudsman of ICANN to discuss how the Ombudsman process works, ICANN Staff to walk the ALS community through the GNSO PDP process, discuss the ALAC independent review about to begin, discuss with the new ICANN Manager of Public Participation how to involve more end-users in the work of ICANN, and introduce the new process for evaluating ALS applications to the regional ALS community members present

RALO signings

Board and Registrars meeting

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What it is: This workshop will focus on the policy issues related to the introduction of internationalized top level domains. A number of working groups (including the GNSO and the ccNSO jointly with the GAC) have been working since the Sao Paulo meeting to frame IDN policy issues. Papers covering IDN policy issues are anticipated to be generated by these working groups and made available for review by this workshop.

Draft agenda