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<font size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="6">September 2007</font><br><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;" size="4"><br><font size="3">In this issue:<br></font></font>
</span></font><ul><li><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">The multi-lingual Internet hits a major milestone<br></font></span></font>
</li><li><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">Changing the rules of the domain name game<br></font></span></font></li><li><font size="3">
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">What would you do with 16 million IP addresses?<br></font></span></font></li><li><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
<font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">Why does the ALAC chair want to see <span style="font-style: italic;">more</span> rules?<br></font></span></font></li><li><font size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
<font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;" size="4"><font size="3">News from around the world, the CEO and much more...</font><br></font></span></font></li></ul>
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Welcome to the second issue of ICANN's monthly magazine. Each issue will cover the latest news and events, plus outline how <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span> can interact with the organization. <br><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">PLUS</span>
this month we have set up an online poll asking what information you
want from ICANN, how you want it, and how you currently interact with
us.<br><br>ICANN is making decisions that directly affect all those
that use the Internet, whether governments, businesses or individual
Net users. <br><br>We help coordinate the names and numbers that are
vital to producing one globally interoperable Internet. Our
decision-making processes are open to all and we welcome all those
equally passionate about how the Internet evolves. <br><br>If you have any questions, comments or queries please feel free to contact ICANN's general manager of public participation: <a href="mailto:kieren.mccarthy@icann.org" target="_blank">
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<div style="color: rgb(204, 255, 255);"><div style="text-align: left;">One
of ICANN's most important jobs is to provide information on its
processes. To that end, we have a series of publications, systems and
websites to elicit input and comment from the Internet community.
<p>But is it enough? Are we providing sufficient information? Is it in
the right format or on the right topics? Are you using the various
means of interacting with ICANN? If not, why not? What can we do to
improve?<br></p><p>We have set up a quick and easy six-question online
survey to find out from you what you want. It will take less than five
minutes, but we will use it to help decide the future course of
providing information about ICANN and its processes. <br></p>
<p>So please do take a few minutes out from your day to complete the survey. We will be very grateful for all help received. <br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.wc8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigpulse.com%2F916i" target="_blank">
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<font style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" size="5"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">IDNs</span></font></span></font><div><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
<br><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.xc8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fpublic.icann.org%2Fissues%2Fidns" target="_blank">Background info</a> <br><br>For
years people have dreamed of the truly multi-lingual Internet, where
the names of websites as well as the content on them, can be
represented in the world's different languages.<br><br>After years of technical and policy development work, a <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.cjwdddcab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fannouncements%2Fannouncement-2-19jun07.htm" target="_blank">
fundamental milestone</a> in the creation of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) has been reached with <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.yc8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fminutes%2Fprelim-report-14aug07.htm" target="_blank">
approval</a> by the ICANN Board to introduce no less than 11 test top-level domains to the root of the Internet.<br><br>Literally
test TLDs - the term "test" will be translated into Arabic, Persian,
Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean,
Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil and put up on the Net. The top-level
domains will host a series of wikis and people from across the world
will be encouraged to run free in the new space so ICANN can see how
the IDNs function on the real Internet. <br><br>In
terms of policy, the ccNSO, GAC, GNSO and ALAC will produce responses
to a ccNSO-GAC issues paper on the public policy issues of introducing
IDNs. The ccNSO is considering launching a Policy Development Process
(PDP) on the issue. <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Key dates: </span><br></font><ul><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sep:</span> The "test" IDNs will be put live into the root</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oct:</span> The ICANN meeting will see large amounts of policy work and discussion
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<a href="mailto:tina.dam@icann.org" target="_blank">Tina Dam</a><br><br></font><hr><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">REGISTRY/ REGISTRAR AGREEMENTS</span></span></font><br></font><div><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
<br>The
review of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) - the contract
that defines the relationship between ICANN and companies that register
domain names (registrars) - has been under review since the collapse of
registrar RegisterFly.<br><br>Six suggested <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.zc8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Ftopics%2Fraa%2Famendments.html" target="_blank">amendments</a>
to the RAA have been posted on the ICANN website and a <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.9c8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fpublic_comment%2F%23raa-consultation" target="_blank">
public comment period</a> on them, which is also open to other suggested changes, started on 30 July. It will close on 10 September.<br><br>The
feedback from that will be used to draw up draft amendments, which will
then be put out for a second public comment period. Other ICANN
constituencies will be invited to contribute their views.<br><br>Discussions surrounding amendments to the RAA will form part
of public discussion at the Los Angeles ICANN meeting in October, both at the public fora, and possibly in another
workshop on the matter. <br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">Registries</span><br><br>In the meantime, a number of registry agreements are being reviewed. The ICANN Board <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.yc8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fminutes%2Fprelim-report-14aug07.htm" target="_blank">
approved</a>
renewal of the .name registry contract to 2012 at its 14 August
meeting. The approval brings it in line with registry contracts
covering .biz, .info and .org.<br><br>There are also ongoing
negotiations for the .aero and .museum agreements, updates on which are
on the Board agenda for its 11 September meeting. The .museum renewal
will be considered by the Board on 16 October.<br><br>Also, the .post new sTLD is in a new stage of negotiations, with a <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.8c8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fpublic_comment%2F%23stld-rfp-post" target="_blank">
comment period</a> opened on the most recent communication between the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and ICANN. There is also a <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.7c8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fpublic_comment%2F%23museum-renewal-2007" target="_blank">
comment period</a> open on the .museum contract extension.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Key dates:</span><br></font><ul><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">30 Sep: </span>Comment period on .museum closes</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">6 Oct: </span>Comment period on .post closes<br></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">16 Oct:
</span>ICANN Board will consider renewing .museum agreement<br></li></font></ul><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
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<a href="mailto:tim.cole@icann.org" target="_blank">Tim Cole</a> (Services - RAA changes) and <a href="mailto:craig.schwartz@icann.org" target="_blank">Craig Schwartz</a> (Services - Registry agreements).<br><br></font><hr>
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Background info</a><br><br>Although
ICANN plays a limited role in the much larger issue of the global
upgrade of the network to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) from the
current IPv4, IANA staff are among those most aware of the technical
issues surrounding IPv6.<br><br>IANA staff, in both official and
personal capacities, continue to give presentations on the issue at
conferences across the world. So do a number of ICANN Board members,
including chairman Vint Cerf. <br><br>At the most recent ICANN meeting in San Juan, the Board passed a <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.cd8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fminutes%2Fresolutions-29jun07.htm%23n" target="_blank">
series of resolutions</a> concerning IPv6 including that it would "participate in raising awareness of this situation and promoting solutions".<br><br>IANA
has recently allocated large pieces of IPv6 space to the Register
Internet Registries (RIRs). You can also read how IANA reclaimed a
large piece of the IPv4 Internet space last month below (see The Great
Reclaimer).<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Key dates: <br></span></font><ul><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">12-15 Nov:</span> The Internet Governance Forum (IGF)</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">2009:</span> The earliest suggested date for when the free pool of IPv4 address will run out
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ICANN staff contact(s):</font></span><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
<a href="mailto:leo.vegoda@icann.org" target="_blank">Leo Vegoda</a> (IANA)<br><br></font><hr><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
<br><font style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" size="2">To be covered in the next newsletter:</font><br></font><ul><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
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Accountability and Transparency<br></font></li><li><font style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" size="3">Ombudsman<br></font></li></font></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<br>Recent Board meetings</font></span><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
<br><br>The Board <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.yc8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fminutes%2Fprelim-report-14aug07.htm" target="_blank">met on <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
14 August 2007</span></a>
to discuss, among other things, the selection of a company to run
ICANN's data escrow programme (where domain name ownership details are
stored by a third party in case of registrar problems). The Board
approved Iron Mountain for the role. <br><br>Other items discussed
included: renewal of the contract for the .name registry, due to expire
on 4 January 2008 (it was approved); a range of redelegation requests
for Dominica, North Korea, Montenegro, Serbia and the former
Yugoslavia. Dominica's request was approved and the remainder will go
forward to the next Board meeting on 11 September.<br><br>Importantly
for the progression of Internationalized Domain Names, the Board
approved the addition of eleven test domains into the root that will be
used to evaluate the performance of IDNs in the real-life Internet
environment rather than in a lab setup.<br><br>The Board also: chose
Paris as the location for the June 2008 meeting; approved recent legal
expenses; reformed the members of a number of Board committees; and
extended the lease of ICANN office space in Marina del Rey for four
years.<br><br><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.yc8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fminutes%2Fprelim-report-14aug07.htm" target="_blank">Preliminary minutes</a> for the full meeting are up on the ICANN website. Full minutes should be available soon.
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Future meetings</span><br><br>The Board will hold a meeting on <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">11 September</span>. The agenda is up on the ICANN website and includes:<br><br></font><ul><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
<li>Discussions on the new .post registry</li><li>Discussions on renewal of the .aero and .museum registries</li><li>Delegation requests from North Korea, Montenegro, Serbia and the former Yugoslavia<br></li><li>Recommendations from the Board Governance Committee on the Nominating Committee
</li><li>An update on the Whois policy process</li><li>Approval of Board review terms of reference for public comment</li><li>Discussion and possible selection of the site for the February 2008 meeting<br></li></font></ul>
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<br><br>You can view all past, current and future Board meetings, along with minutes and agenda on one webpage on the ICANN website at <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.liwdddcab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fminutes%2F" target="_blank">
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The President and CEO of ICANN, Dr Paul Twomey, answers a few questions about reviews, retreats and the Indian IT revolution. </i><br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">What have you been up to this month?
</span><br>I've
been working on a combination of things. With Doug Brent [ICANN COO]
I've been working on a series of operational reviews; we've had a
strategic retreat with the board; and I've been working closely with
Rajasekhar Ramaraj [ICANN board member] on building relations with the
Indian business community and also with the Indian government.<br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">What are these operational reviews?</span><br>Well,
one of the things the board committee, particularly Njeri Rionge, has
been pushing over the last twelve months has been to have an ongoing
process of operational review, and so we established an operational
review panel. <br><br>The idea is actually to review each business
unit within the ICANN staff process, and look for opportunities for
improvements, particularly with a mind towards working to adopt some
sort of quality performance measure or test for the staff functions of
ICANN over the next several years.<br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">What have you found out?</span><br>The
big message that came out of it was, that as ICANN's staff functions
have grown to meet the demands of the community, some units have done
well in developing internal processes, managing work; other units need
to do better at doing that developmental process. And probably the most
challenging aspect is the need for managing certain processes across
all the units... that needs to be improved. <br><br>I don't find this
surprising in an organizational sense. The staff function for ICANN,
say when I first became president, was very small; essentially
everything was done by people who could meet around the water cooler.
But that, of course, meant that a lot of things didn't get done: we
didn't have enough staff. As we've been able to increase staff numbers
to support the community and deal with the depth and complexity of the
work coming from the community, part of our aim has been to ensure that
each unit manager runs their own affairs and makes sure it runs well.<br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">Getting on to the board retreat...</span><br>The
board retreat was an opportunity for board members to meet face to face
and be able to talk through, in a more informal setting, the issues
they see in front of the organization. There were two key aspects: one
was talking through what they thought should be their input into the
strategic planning process, so they had a chance to talk through in
great detail what strategic issues were facing ICANN and what
particular insights they had for the next three-year cycle. <br><br>The
second conversation was their own thinking about succession:
recognizing that Vint is moving on as chair. The board members were
having an open discussion amongst themselves about what sort of
characteristics they'd be looking for in a new chair, and some
discussion of potential options. That's a conversation which clearly
hasn't come to any conclusion and which is still an ongoing discussion
among the board members. <br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">As CEO, what changes do you think Vint leaving will have on ICANN and its Board?</span><br>Well
I think there's no doubt that Vint's been an outstanding contributor to
ICANN - just as he's been an outstanding contributor to the entire
Internet. I think we should recognize though that there is no Vint Mark
II. <br><br>We also have to recognize that whoever moves into the
position of being chair is simply not going to be the same person. It's
probably healthy that it's not - it's good to have a different style.
But I think, very importantly, we ought to recognize why there's the
chair of ICANN. The chair of ICANN's role is to be the chair of the
board, and to be something of a public face for the organization. <br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">You mentioned new relationships with India - why India, and what have you been doing?</span>
<br>Well,
India is a very large country, its economy is growing at high
single-digit growth rates; it has a significantly growing middle class;
a very large IT outsourcing business, process outsourcing and now
increasingly R&D-based IT industry, particularly in Bangalore and
Hyderabad. <br><br>So Rajasekhar Ramaraj, our board member from India,
was keen - and we've been keen - to organize a sort of outreach to
Indian business, which we did in Bangalore, and also further with
industry associations in Delhi.<br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">And what is ICANN telling the Indians?</span><br>Well,
what it is that ICANN does or does not do. The community that
co-ordinates the unique identifier system is at the very heart of their
whole business model, particularly for the business-process
outsourcing, the software outsourcing industry... The very fact that
all those people can build those very successful businesses in India is
because they can ensure that their customers' customers can be reached
by the software they're writing very easily - instantly. <br><br>ICANN
stands for a single interoperable Internet, and their business success
has been based upon a single interoperable Internet, and I think they
recognize that - they haven't heard it expressed that way. <br><br>Steve
Crocker also attended and he talked a lot about DNSSEC, IPv6 - the need
for IPv6 uptake - and I think that was taken on board in India. We
spent some very interesting time with the Indian CERT. Traditionally
inside ICANN, I think, we've seen the sort of security details that the
CERTs are worried about as just being an application-layer concern and
therefore outside our remit. But there are application-layer aspects to
what they do. Where the two Venn diagrams intersect is in things like
flux of IP addresses, spoofing of domain names, use of tasting of
domain names - potential ways of setting up attack sites, and spoofing
sites.<br><br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">One
of the big events just after the Los Angeles meeting in Noevmber is the
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio where the topic of 'critical
Internet resources' is going to be discussed. What role do you see
ICANN playing at that meeting?</span><br>I think the fact that critical
Internet resources are one of the agenda topics is a good thing. Very
importantly, though, the function ICANN does is only a small part of
what critical Net resources are, and I think it's important -
especially for developing countries - that that discussion also has to
be about critical infrastructure and application-layer stuff as well as
simply the domain name system and IP addressing. <br><br>But
nevertheless, in terms of DNS and IP addressing, I think that ICANN,
the Regional Internet Registries and others have a great story to tell,
and we're proud to go out and tell that story: what we do; how
multi-party stakeholder models work; the increasing number of country
codes and governments that have been involved in our work; the way in
which the policy procedures work; the further internationalization of
ICANN as an international non-profit organization: I think those are
all good news stories, so we'll be confident and happy to go forward
and have that discussion.<br><br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">Thanks</span><br>Thank you.<br><br></font></div></td>
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It's
easy to forget in the day-to-day administration and management of the
Internet's names and numbers that the network is still a young
invention with a living history - one that is still be written as we
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A recent effort by IANA to reclaim a part of that old network for new users helped put that history into context.</span> <br><br>After
several months' spent locating and contacting 29 organizations and
obtaining their permission, IANA has managed to free up one up of the
256 blocks of IP addresses that make up the current Internet.<br><br>The "slash-8" was number 14 if you view IP address as a <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.jd8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iana.org%2Fassignments%2Fipv4-address-space" target="_blank">
list of 256 items</a> and was assigned to the Public Data Network. The space was specifically <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.ld8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iana.org%2Fassignments%2Fpublic-data-network-numbers" target="_blank">
set aside</a> in June 1991 to connect IPv4 networks to the ITU's X.25 networks.<br><br>In
that sense, block <a href="http://14.0.0.0/8">14.0.0.0/8</a> is a piece of history. The X.25 protocol
was one of the first efforts to use the new packet-switching technology
to produce a more reliable, digital network. It preceded the OSI model
that was pushed heavily by the ITU but which was finally set aside in
favor of the TCP/IP model that the Internet as we now know it runs on.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Detective work</span><br><br>But
despite X.25 still being in use in a few countries, its IP address
block is no longer needed, and so IANA ran through all the recipients
of IP addresses in that block since 1991, and asked if they would
agree to return their allocation. In some cases, the contact
information was out-of-date; in others, there was no contact
information. But after some detective work by the technical community
all those in charge of the 984 addresses in use were tracked down. At
the end of August one final registrant was researching the status of
one last address.<br><br>In the first seven months of 2007, IANA has
allocated nine slash-8s to the RIRs (Regional Internet Registries), who
then allocate them to organizations and businesses in their regions.
Block 14 and its 16 million IPv4 addresses will be made available in
the next few months, leaving just 47 blocks in the free pool of
unallocated addresses. Or, put another way, with the Internet's growth
as it is, the Public Data Network will buy roughly one month's worth of
expansion time.<br><br>The reclaim is unlikely to be repeated. We
estimate it took six minutes per address. Fine when less than 1,000
exist in a block of 16 million, but a whole other world when the
addresses have entered mainstream Internet use. <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">The future's... big</span><br><br>The
solution to the diminishing pool of IPv4 addresses is, of course, the
step up to IPv6 networks. Barely 0.1 percent of the IPv6 address space
has been allocated so far. And of that, only a tiny fraction is in use.
How big is IPv6? If you could fit all IPv4 addresses into an iPod, it
would take something the size of the Earth to contain IPv6. We're
unlikely to need to go through a similar reclaiming exercise with IPv6
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<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">PUBLIC COMMENT</span></font><br><br>There
was a bumper crop of public comment periods during and ending in
August, including: the draft management operating principles; the new
gTLD paper; and the latest iteration of ICANN's Strategic Plan. <br><br>You can view full details of all these comment periods on a specific <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.nd8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fpublic_comment%2Fpublic-comment-200708.html" target="_blank">
August public comment page here</a>.<br><br>Meanwhile,
there are four comment periods currently open that will close this
month, which are: a request of information covering the issue of domain
tasting - which includes two online polls (see below); changes to the
RAA (see policy above for more details); independent review of the
Nominating Committee; and review of the .museum contract. <br><br>They can all be found, with full links, at the top of the <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.od8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fpublic_comment" target="_blank">
main public comment webpage</a>.<br><br> <br></font><hr><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
<br><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">ONLINE SURVEYS</span></font><br>
<br>Following on from a successful experiment with feedback on new
gTLDs, the online survey system that ALAC has been using for several
months has been expanded to the recent domain tasting request for
comments.<br><br>There are two surveys asking people what they think and if they have extra information that might be useful. The first is a <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.pd8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigpulse.com%2F872i" target="_blank">
broad survey</a>
covering people's experiences with domain tasting and their views on
various suggested ways to tackle the issue. The second, produced by the
Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC), is a <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.qd8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigpulse.com%2F917i" target="_blank">more in-depth review</a> of how people - in particular businesses - have been impacted by domain tasting.
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far, the surveys have proved popular since they represent a fast, easy
and structured way to gather information and views on particular
topics. We continue to run the traditional email forums and will be
analyzing how the two work alongside one another, while keeping one eye
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<br>A series of interesting and thoughtful blog posts and comments this month, from a <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.rd8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.icann.org%2F%3Fp%3D185" target="_blank">
discussion</a> over whether we should spell ICANN "Icann", or Internet "internet"; to <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.sd8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.icann.org%2F%3Fp%3D181" target="_blank">
two podcasts of Board members</a> Steve Goldstein and Susan Crawford talking about the history of the Internet and ICANN respectively. Also: a <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.td8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.icann.org%2F%3Fp%3D183" target="_blank">
quick review</a> of the history of new gTLDs, and some commentary on an effort by a financial services company to <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.ud8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.icann.org%2F%3Fp%3D178" target="_blank">
differentiate themselves</a> through their use of a .org domain. <br>
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There have been several threads of discussion on the public participation site recently - most concerning <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.vd8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fpublic.icann.org%2Fnode%2F263" target="_blank">
ideas</a>
for new gTLDs. Would-be registrars from across the world have also been
seeking information on how to become ICANN-accredited. ICANN staffer
Baher Esmat wrote the <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.wd8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fpublic.icann.org%2Fnode%2F262" target="_blank">first post</a> in Arabic covering the IGF process.
<br><br>The <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.rw9yjacab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fpublic.icann.org%2F" target="_blank">public participation site</a>
is open to all interested individuals, who are free to blog directly to
the site, or comments on others' posts as soon as they have registered.
The site also runs feeds of news from ICANN and from the community on
each page.<br>
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ICANN conducts periodic outreach events with universities. Events were
held in Lisbon, Portugal and San Juan, Puerto Rico during the last two
ICANN meetings. <br><br>In advance of the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles, ICANN
will conduct a number of small outreach events with universities in Los
Angeles. The first events have been scheduled for 27 September 2007 at
USC and USC-ISI. Additional events are being planned.<br><br><br><br><br>More details on participating with ICANN can be found at: <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.ziwdddcab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fparticipate%2F" target="_blank">
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ICANN, together with the Ministry of Information and Communications
Technology of India and the Internet & Mobile Association of India,
held a <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.xd8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iamai.in%2F%2520Internet%26Issues%2Fagenda.htm" target="_blank">workshop</a> in Delhi last month. <br><br>The
event covered the domain name industry and Internet governance and was
attended by Shri R. Chandrashekhar, Additional Secretary, Department of
Information Technology, Government of India; Dr. Gulshan Rai, Director,
CERT-In; and ICANN Board members Shri R. Ramaraj, Steve Crocker, Chair
of the ICANN Security and Stability Committee, and ICANN CEO, Paul
Twomey.<br><br>You can read Dr Twomey's thoughts and feelings about the meeting in his interview above.<br><br>
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ICANN has developed a joint proposal with UNESCO for the IGF meeting in
Rio in November focussing on the multi-lingual Internet. Preparations
are also underway for a joint ICANN/TWNIC meeting in Taiwan in October
covering security, IDNs and IPv6. <br><br>A Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) between ICANN and the UN Economic and Social
Commission of Western Asia (UN ESCWA) aimed to encourage the
implementation of IDNs in the Arabic language was signed. <br><br>For more news from the Middle East region, visit regional manager Baher Esmat's<a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.jggscbcab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fpublic.icann.org%2Fglobal-partnerships%2Fmiddle-east" target="_blank">
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<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">6 Sep: </span><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.yd8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fannouncements%2Fannouncement-06sep07.htm" target="_blank">
Bids welcomed for new gTLD approval system</a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> <br><br>23 Aug: </span><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.cjwdddcab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fannouncements%2Fannouncement-2-19jun07.htm" target="_blank">
IDN .test root zone update</a> <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">17 Aug: </span><br></font><ul><font style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" color="#285685" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">
<li><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.zd8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fannouncements%2Fannouncement-2-17aug07.htm" target="_blank">Clarification over .kp ccTLD</a></li><li>
<a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.9d8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fannouncements%2Fannouncement-17aug07.htm" target="_blank">Paris chosen for June 2008 ICANN meeting </a></li>
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RFI on domain tasting released</a></li><li><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.7d8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fannouncements%2Fannouncement-10aug07.htm" target="_blank">New TLD consultation launched
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2 Aug: </span><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=atygaecab.0.6d8snecab.xrsqb6bab.183&ts=S0277&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fannouncements%2Fannouncement-02aug07.htm" target="_blank">Global fellowships programme opens doors
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<td style="color: rgb(40, 86, 133); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><p>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is
an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has
responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation,
protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD)
Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system
management functions. These services were originally performed under
U.S. Government contract by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
(IANA) and other entities. ICANN now performs the IANA function.</p>
<p>As a private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving
the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to
achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to
developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up,
consensus-based processes.</p></td>
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">Jacqueline
Morris is chair of the At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC). She is an
Internet specialist based in Trinidad and Tobago, and a part-time
lecturer at the University of the West Indies.</span><br><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">What do you see as ALAC's role in ICANN?</span><br><br>Well
the idea is that we should have loads and loads of people getting
excited about being involved in these things, get input from them as to
what are the important issues regarding the technical governance of the
Internet, take this to ICANN and say "these are issues that are
important to our people". <br><br>We should also do it the other way
and get stuff from ICANN and say "this is what they're going to do, and
what do you think about it, and how do you think it's going to affect
you?" But we're still in a structural transition period at the moment.
We've been asking for input from the RALOs [Regional At-Large
Organizations] on a lot of things, and some of them are setting up
their structures so that they can go out to their membership. <br><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">One
of the criticisms against this new ALAC system with ALSes (At Large
Structures) and RALOs is that it is unnecessarily bureaucratic. Do you
think there's something to that?</span><br><br>I don't think it's
bureaucratic, because we don't have any rules at the moment! So it
can't really be bureaucratic. We have the bylaws which are very loose -
as they should be - and now we have to actually work out the details. <br><br>Some
of the RALOs are bureaucratic - that is true. Some have spent days and
months building their structures and their general assemblies and their
rules and regulations, and their operating principles and so on and so
forth. They actually have more paper than ALAC has.<br><br>But now we
(ALAC) have to put in some rules, because we have people coming in who
are basically taking orders from their region, and that makes it a lot
more difficult to achieve that whole consensus and collegiality thing,<br><br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">What is the main thing you want to achieve while you are chair?</span><br><br>The
main thing is to get it all working properly or at least to a
good-enough level. It used to run on rough consensus; now we have to
put in some rules and not be as informal as we were. And we have
started doing that - writing down why we do what we do, documenting it
and so on. And that unfortunately is taking up an awful lot of time -
it has to be done, but it also takes away some of the energy from
policy, which frustrates some people. Like me! <br><br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">What's on your mind at the moment?</span><br><br>Well
we have an internal working group on the Registrar Accreditation
Agreement. We've got out working group on IDNs, which has about 20
people on it, already set up. And then there's an ad hoc working group
for each committee that people are liaising to, so we've appointed a
liaison to Security and Stability advisory committee, and that has a
little discussion group. We'll know we're really cooking with gas when
we get a liaison to the GAC. Not <span style="font-weight: bold;">from</span> the GAC - <span style="font-weight: bold;">to</span> the GAC.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">One
of the biggest issues around At-Large has always been the ending of the
At-Large elections to be replaced with the Nominating Committee (in
2003). Are you watching the NomCom review that's going on at the moment?</span><br><br>Yes.
Everybody's talking about the NomCom review. I have spoken to the
reviewers [Interisle Consulting Group], I've given them names of people
in the At Large who are both pro and anti the NomCom concept.
Personally, I think it is important to have people who are not elected
by a constituency. I think of the NomCom people as kind of like the
House of Lords - not beholden to anybody in particular.<br><br>But one
thing that I have been telling people all along is that we'll get Board
representation when we prove that we are viable and useful and
sensible. But they're not going to give it to us just because we say
so, or just because we're nice or just because it's our birthday. We'll
get it because we earn it, not because we think we deserve it. It's not
our birthright. Until we prove that we deserve it, it won't happen. <br><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></font></td>
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