Public participation site

The GAC represents the governments of the world and considers ICANN's activities and policies particularly with regard to national laws or international agreements.

The GAC's main website can be found at http://gac.icann.org

The factions of the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) and Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) in the German Parliament have submitted the resolution "Advancement of the adress space in the Internet" (printed paper no. 16/4564; courtesy translation) to the plenary on March 7. In it, the federal government is called upon to support new developments in the Internet name space.

ICANN has changed the method by which it draws input into its public meetings - including the public forum - in an effort to make it easier to interact, and hence encourage greater interaction.

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For the ICANN public forum on Thursday 29 March 2007

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Joint ccNSO and GAC meeting on IDNs

GAC Working Group (closed)

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.

GAC Plenary (closed)

GAC Program Committee Meeting (closed)

What it is: Members of the ICANN Board of Directors and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) will participate in an open dialogue on current issues.

GAC Plenary (closed)