Schedule
9:00 - 17:30 Chagall
What it is | The Generic Names Supporting Organisation's (GNSO) face to face meetings are open sessions.
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8:45 - 10:00 Rodin What it is | The working meeting of the At-Large Advisory Committee and the Generic Names Supporting Organisation’s Council for the ICANN Paris meeting. Why it's important | This is the first meeting of the two bodies, who will jointly discuss subjects of importance to both communities, including the GNSO Improvements programme and Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs). Who should attend? | All ALAC and GNSO Council members, all other interested members of the GNSO and At-Large communities. The public is welcome. |
10:00 - 17:30 Chagall
What it is | The Generic Names Supporting Organisation's (GNSO) face to face meetings are open sessions.
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9:00 - 17:00 Hemingway What it is | The gTLD Registries Constituency is a constituency within the Generic Name Supporting Organisation (GNSO) and its primary role is to represent the interests of gTLD Registries that are currently under contract with ICANN to provide gTLD Registry Services. Why it's Important | The in-person meetings held in conjunction with the ICANN meetings provide an opportunity for productive and constructive discussions on issues that involve ICANN consensus policies that relate to interoperability, technical reliability and/or stable operation of the Internet or domain name system. Who should attend? | Anyone with a vested interest in these issues is encouraged to attend the open session of the gTLD Registries Constituency meeting while in Paris. |
9:00 - 17:00 Jacob What it is | The Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) is the home for civil society organisations in ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO). |
14:00 - 17:00 Miller What it is | "ISPs"; or "connectivity providers"; are in the business of operating Name Servers as a service for 3rd parties and operate an Internet backbone network based on TCP/IP.
Why it's important | The meeting is an important opportunity for updates and discussions on issues within the ICANN agenda that are of particular importance to registrants who are intellectual property owners and those seeking to protect copyright and trademark online. Who should attend? | Anyone with an interest in these issues is invited to attend. |
14:00 - 17:00 Utrillo (Main Room) What it is | The Business Constituency is a constituency representing customers of providers of connectivity, domain names, IP addresses, protocols and other services related to electronic commerce in its broad sense.
Why it's important | The meeting will consider the reaction of commercial users to proposals to change (and potentially reduce) the way they have their say in ICANN matters. It will also look inter alia at means of policy change to prevent bad faith activity related to domain tasting and the widespread abuse of the "add grace period". Who should attend? | Commercial users of the Internet who are interested in meaningful competition in the domain name space and improved enforcement by ICANN of its contract parties (registries and registrars) with respect to acts of bad faith facilitated by lack of enforcement. |
14:45 - 17:00 Giacometti What it is | The IPC represents the full range of trademark, copyright and other intellectual property interests relating to the Domain Name System (DNS).
Why it's Important } The meeting is an important opportunity for updates and discussions on issues within the ICANN agenda that are of particular importance to registrants who are intellectual property owners and those seeking to protect copyright and trademark online. Who Should Attend? | Anyone with an interest in these issues is invited to attend. |
8:00 - 12:00 Utrillo (Main Room) What it is | In this session the Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO) Council, the body responsible for managing the policy development process for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), provides an opportunity for community members to interact with the Council as it conducts its meeting.
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