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open door vs closed doorOpen-Door or Closed-Door? International Organization 58, Fall 2004, pp. 667-703 By jacobmalthouse at 6 Dec 2006 - 15:56 | jacobmalthouse's blog | login to post comments
SSACThis is the space for chatrooms connected with the SSAC - the Security and Stability Advisory Committee - of ICANN. But also for specific security issues. Communications of outputs of Icann meetingssee: http://www.iisd.ca/ A neutral, authoritative and up-to-the-minute record of ongoing multilateral negotiations on environment and sustainable development. An interesting option for summarising ICANN meetings? ICANN structureThis is the space for chatrooms that are considering aspects of ICANN and its structure, from how supporting organisations work, through to ICANN's approach, finance, changes and so on. Comments requestedToday 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. By Patrick Jones at 6 Dec 2006 - 13:53 | ICANN | ccTLDs/gTLDs | Security and stability | Patrick Jones's blog | login to post comments
IDN Workshop ChatThe chatroom is for discussions during the IDN workshop. Any questions posted to the chatroom will be read at the microphone by Maria Farrell during the workshop. The IDN workshop will contain status reports regarding various IDN activities, technical, policy, and others. blink, blink and delicious?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. What's in a name? A story about TLDs.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 Meetings and meatThere 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. 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. Transcript: GNSO Forum Mon 4 DecCaptioning GNSO Public Forum Part 1 4 December 2006 Taken from ICANN's main website. Note: The following is the output of the real-time captioning taken during the GNSO Public Forum Part 1 held on 4 December 2006 in S |