ICANN São Paulo meeting site

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.

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

Which room?: Comandatuba 2+3
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What it is: A moderated panel session to provide the Internet community with a cultural and technical overview of the Caribbean.

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A transcript for this meeting can be reviewed here.

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.

(I tried to make some points on the introduction of new gTLDs at yesterday's GNSO public forum, but with time pressure at the mic, the points I were trying to make were necessarily somewhat brief and probably also somewhat confusing. I'll break up my thoughts into general categories and spread them over a few blog posts.)

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By Rebecca Wanjiku,

When Peter Ulanga was invited to visit Brazil, last year, he knew that something was going to change in the management of dot Tz country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD).

Ulanga, and a colleague, Peter Shilla, benefited from training offered by the Brazilian government on management of domain name registries using open source software.

Within two years of the training, Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority is ready to launch the dot Tz ccTLD registry. The domain has been administered by the University of Dar es Salaam and individuals.

`The training worked well, we have bought necessary equipment and we are ready to launch Tanzania Network Information Centre, TzNIC,` said Ulanga.

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