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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mexico City
Briefing Note Published</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">9
March 2009</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A <a href="http://mex.icann.org/briefing-note">briefing note on the Mexico City
meeting</a> of 1-6 March 2009 has been published. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN's 34th international
public meeting was hosted by ICANN, the Mexican Internet Association (AMIPCI),
the Network Information Center (NIC) Mexico, and the Internet Society (ISOC)
Mexico. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The briefing note summarizes
key developments at the meeting and outlines next steps and sources of further
information for each. The topics included are: </span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">New
generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Internationalized
Domain Names and the IDN Fast Track </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Amendments
to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Improving Institutional Confidence (IIC) consultation </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">GNSO
Improvements </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Independent
Reviews </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A summary
of Board resolutions </span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The briefing note is an
informal summary. The authoritative records of official meetings will be
available in their minutes. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Further information about the
meeting, including presentations and transcripts, is available at <a href="http://mex.icann.org/">http://mex.icann.org/</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Information about the next
meeting which will be from 21-26 June 2008 in Sydney, Australia can be found at
its dedicated website at <a href="http://syd.icann.org/">http://syd.icann.org</a>.
</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Related links: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mexico City briefing note: <a href="http://mex.icann.org/briefing-note">http://mex.icann.org/briefing-note</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mexico City meeting website: <a href="http://mex.icann.org/">http://mex.icann.org/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sydney meeting website: <a href="http://syd.icann.org/">http://syd.icann.org</a> </span></p>
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