Name: How it Works: Internet Identifiers
Start: 2026-03-08T09:00:00+0530
End: 2026-03-08T10:00:00+0530

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How it Works: Internet Identifiers

Sunday March 8, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am IST

Jasmine Hall 1A (Secondary Ballroom/Brd Wrkshp)

09:00 IST (UTC+5.5), 8 March 2026
03:30 UTC, 8 March 2026
Jasmine Hall 1A (Secondary Ballroom/Brd Wrkshp)
ID# 17670

Session Details
This is an onboarding session for ICANN85 newcomers and non-engineers, including Fellowship and NextGen@ICANN Program participants. This learning session will introduce newcomers to the unique identifier ecosystem. Attendees will learn about domain names, IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses, autonomous system numbers, port numbers, and other identifier systems that ICANN helps coordinate. This session will help prepare ICANN85 attendees for all the policy discussions being conducted at the conference.
Main Presenter: Champika Wijayatunga, ICANN Technical Engagement Director for APAC

Session Leader: Siranush Vardanyan
Staff Facilitator: Siranush Vardanyan

Session Recordings
Zoom Archive
English audio archive
Archivo de audio en español
Hindi audio archive

Facilitators