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Lisbon, Portugal - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - April 5, 2007 - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), hosted its 28th Public Meeting, with over 830 attendees, from 81 countries, in Lisbon, Portugal. The meetings, one of three held each year, are open to anyone interested in participating, and constitute an essential part of ICANN’s efforts to consult the global community.

Dr. Vint Cerf, Chairman of ICANN remarked, “We’ve just finished one of ICANN’s busiest and issue-intensive meetings and it helped ICANN make substantial progress on numerous fronts.”

Considerations included:

• The formalization of three relationships with country code top level domain (ccTLD) managers: .ly - Libya (General Post and Telecommunication Company), .ci - Côte d’Ivoire (Institut National Polytechnique Felix Houphouet Boigny), and .ru - Russia (Coordination Center for TLD RU).
• The formation of a new working group to develop the recommendations in the Final Task Force Report on Whois Services presented to the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GSNO) on 16 March 2007. The group will have broad and balanced participation and has 120 days to consider input and report back to the GNSO Council, which will then decide whether to recommend any changes on Whois policy to the ICANN Board.
• A discussion on Registrar Accreditation Agreements and how to improve them especially in the context of the enormous difficulties that registrants who have their domain names registered through the registrar known as RegisterFly.
• The creation of three new Regional At Large Organizations that will give Internet users from Africa, Europe, and Asia-Australia-Pacific direct input into ICANN.
• Rejection of the .XXX Sponsored Top Level Domain application.
• Presentations by Sweden and Bulgaria on the enhanced Domain Name System security enhancements in their respective TLDs.
• The launch of ICANN’s new website with better navigation and new features to increase ICANN’s transparency and accountability.
• Updates on moving to IPv6 to expand the number of IP addresses available to global Internet users and the process of introducing Internationalized Domain Names to introduce non-Latin characters to the root.
• The release of the One World Trust (www.oneworldtrust.org) independent review of ICANN’s accountability and transparency which stated that overall ICANN is a very transparent organization, noting that it shares a large quantity of information through its website, probably more than any other global organisation. The report also identifies areas for improvement.
• The release of the next steps in the development of a set of Management Operating Principles for accountability and transparency.

Dr. Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN added,

“ICANN is working hard to improve in the area of openness and transparency. Public participation was a key aim at this meeting. If you couldn’t be physically present you could participate through webcasting, chatrooms, and the ability to ask questions to speakers with our public participation website. Even the board discussion was made available for the whole world to watch live.”

Dr. Twomey concluded, “I want to thank our Portuguese hosts for their extraordinary efforts to make members of the Internet community across the globe feel welcome, and for ensuring every aspect of the meeting ran smoothly. Portugal was one of the founding members of the Governmental Advisory Committee and will continue to be at the forefront of Internet issues when it assumes the Presidency of the European Union during the second half of this year.”

The 29th ICANN Public Meeting will held 25-29 June, 2007, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

ICANN’s mission is founded on two key concepts: 1) They are acting in the public trust, and developing decisions through a bottom up, consensus based process. ICANN is committed to a single, authoritative stable public root for the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) through the coordination and management of a unique identifier system. It is also committed to the management of that unique root in the public trust according to policies developed through participation and acceptance by the community; and 2) By offering users an easy-to-use and reliable means of unambiguously referring to web sites, e-mail servers, and the Internet’s many other services, the DNS is helping the Internet achieve its promise of a global communications medium for commerce, research, education, social and cultural and other expressive activities. Effectively ICANN operates as a steward for users who depend on the Internet’s naming resources. As a result ICANN needs to focus on participation and input to decision making regarding this global resource.

The model that ICANN represents has evolved over the past 7 years, and is now broadly endorsed around the world. It is unique in that it provides for participation by all stakeholders - and is a model for multi-stakeholder participation. One of the model’s main strengths is its accountability to the Internet community and emphasis on broad and informed participation by the global community. Reported on by the OECD and discussed at the World Summit on the Information Society, ICANN has been accepted as an organization responsible for certain key issues and topics relevant to Internet governance.

To learn more about the meeting, please visit: http://public.icann.org.

For more information about ICANN, please visit: www.icann.org.

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