Public participation site

The Lisbon meeting for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) is being held between 26-30 March 2007, and this is its online participation website.

Conference Map - click for larger version

Available here will be: a rundown of each meeting complete with full details, including panellists; topics for discussions; links to resources and presentations; and links to webcasts and audiocasts where available.

At the same time, blogs, chatrooms, polls and forums will help people both at the meeting and dotted around the globe to share information and interact with one another.

The topics of most interest in Lisbon are likely to be:

• Registrars' agreement -- its ongoing review likely to spark some debate in light of the Registerfly situation
• IPv6 -- the issue is becoming more important with every meeting as Net numbers start drying up
• DNSSEC -- the secure(r) form of the DNS finally appears to be showing some movement with Sweden adopting it in the real-world
• IDNs -- a successful series of test results are focussing attention on the next step for full domains in languages other than English
• RALOs -- it is expected that not one, not two, but three Regional At Large Organisations will be ready to go for the Lisbon meeting

Please do tour around the site. We hope it will be easy to find what you're looking for. If you have a query or question, please feel free to email me, general manager of public participation, at kieren.mccarthy@icann.org.