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<font size="4"><strong><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">IGF
Meeting – 2011</span></strong></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font size="4"><strong><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">Nairobi,
Kenya</span></strong></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font size="4"><strong><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">29 September 2011</span></strong></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font size="4"><strong><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">ICANN
Open Forum</span></strong></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font size="4"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; color: black;">Hear the latest on new gTLDs, IDNs and DNSSEC</span></i></b><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-weight: normal;"></span></i></strong></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">Proponent<strong><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"></span></strong></span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><strong><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-weight: normal;">The </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">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. 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.</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">Purpose</span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">The purpose of
this session is to update IGF participants on ICANN’s recent work, and progress
made in areas pertaining to its mission, particularly in relation to:</span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">New
gTLD program </span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">DNSSEC
deployment </span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">IDN
ccTLDs</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">Participants<strong><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"> </span></strong></span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><br>
Representatives from a diverse range of stakeholder groups will participate in
the open forum. This will include but will not be limited to: government
representatives, businesses, registries and registrars, intellectual property
experts, Internet end-users, and technical experts. </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">Speakers</span></b></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">Rod Beckstrom, ICANN President and CEO</span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<font size="4"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">Steve Crocker, Chairman of ICANN Board </span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">Katim Touray, Board Director</span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">Alice Munyua, GAC representative of Kenya </span></font></li></ul>
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