ICANN São Paulo meeting site

Open-Door or Closed-Door?
Transparency in Domestic and International Bargaining
David Stasavage

International Organization 58, Fall 2004, pp. 667-703

see: http://www.iisd.ca/

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An interesting option for summarising ICANN meetings?

Today ICANN has posted the report of the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel on the proposed registry service from GNR.See RSTEP Report on GNR Proposal Posted for Public Comment - 6 December 2006 [ICANN news feed]

I encourage people to read the report. This may be the first time that technical data has been produced on domain name appending in TLD.TLD (correct me if I'm wrong).

We're welcoming public comments on the report.

Hey! It's pretty bright outside the bunker.

There are some interesting bits in the Cambridge Partnership Matters journal about the challenges of making multi-stakeholder forums work:

http://www.cpi.cam.ac.uk/pccp/partnershipmatters.html

Does anyone know of academic or think tank resources on this topic? Maybe we could make a delicious links reading list or knowledge pool of existing best practice and new ideas?

cheers,

Jacob.

Sao Paulo city in Brazil has briefly become the focal point for lobby groups wanting to establish new top level domain names or TLDs. A New York initiative called the .nyc Development Corp believes there is a need to have web addresses that end with .nyc, while the dot BERLIN GmbH & Co. KG argues that there is pent up demand for the .berlin suffix.

The Berliners formed a Limited Commercial Partnership to coordinate lobbying efforts aimed at convincing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to approve the new city TLD. This initiative claims to have a staff of six people working with the support of

There will be a really interesting session today at 3pm to discuss how we run meetings. What might seem an exercise in navel gazing is actually, I think, going to be a very useful discussion that could inform our whole approach to not only running meetings, but where they are located, how we participate, their purpose and more.
So in amongst lots of meetings, one more to talk about how the meetings work! But it will be very valuable.

In addition to meeting overload, I think I'm in meat overload. This week I must have eaten a flock of sheep, a herd of cows and a coop of chickens! If you can drag yourself away in the evening to sample a rodizio (where all kinds of delicious meat just keeps coming) you should. They are outstanding.

Last night, we had the now semi-regular football tournament. Like many things at ICANN meetings, some themes emerge; and a little repetition. (Whois, anyone?) Huge thanks to Erick Iriarte for putting it all together.

As is traditional, the ICANN staff and Board team lost all our matches. We actually do this on purpose, to show humility and openness. It's a ritual humiliation we're happy to go through. And anyway, we had the best t-shirts.

But we weren't completely creamed. We'd lost our professional-level goalie, Olof, because his wife threatened divorce if he came home injured again. But we had Denise harrying the opposing strikers, and tackling dirty the way only girls can in a mixed game.

Some themes emerged;

Everyone,

Hope to see you at this meeting! A great opportunity for exchange and dialogue with different cultures.

Caribbean People, Caribbean Priorities - A presentation and discussion session (1330-1530) (Comandatuba 2+3)

What it is:
This moderated panel session will provide the Internet community with a cultural and technical overview of the Caribbean.

Why it's important:
Participants and presenters will also hold a dialogue on Caribbean priorities vis-

I'm pleased that today we were able to launch a couple of discussion papers that I have been keen to start a public dialogue on to help improve management of the DNS root zone.

We've been working hard to improve the responsiveness and efficiency of IANA for some time now. In assessing how IANA does its job, it became clear some of the delays that affect us are because we have inherited some policies that aren't the most efficient to implement.

Number one on the list of things that would improve average processing time for the DNS root zone is to alter our "glue" policy. I have presented at the last few ccNSO meetings, as well as meetings of APTLD and CENTR, on this particular topic. Some name servers are shared between many different TLD operators, and simple administrative changes to these can require two confirmations from every single affected TLD operator. In practice this has made some fairly simple changes take over a year, because one or two of them would not respond to our requests.

By Rebecca Wanjiku
African participants at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN) meeting in Sao Paulo have formed a unified body that with articulate issues from participants drawn from various sectors.

Africa Regional At Large Organisation (AFRALO) will unite users wishing to articulate their issues to ICANN. AFRALO is expected to link Africa to the global At Large Organisation within ICANN.

Alice Munyua, a member of ICANN