[council] ICANN, TWNIC Host “Toward the New Era of Internet”- IDN Key topic

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ICANN, TWNIC Host “Toward the New Era of Internet” in Taipei

Internationalized domain names, Internet security key topics at 
three-day meeting

20 September 2007

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and 
Numbers is joining forces with the Taiwan Network Information Centre 
(TWNIC) to host a special regional meeting — “Toward the New Era of 
Internet” — in Taipei 19-21 October 2007.

“ICANN, TWNIC, and the global Internet community are tackling some of 
the most important issues impacting the Internet since its creation,” 
said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN’s President and CEO. “This meeting is an 
opportunity for technical communities, Internet businesses, and policy 
makers from the Asia-Pacific to come together and share thoughts and 
ideas on how we can move forward together.”

Some of the meeting highlights include:

     * Internet security and the challenges it presents to governments, 
service providers, and end-users
     * The need for a migration to IPv6, with its 340 trillion trillion 
trillion Internet Protocol addresses, because of the depletion of the 
widely-used IPv4 space
     * One of the last official ICANN functions for Board Chair Vint 
Cerf, whose term ends at the Los Angeles International Public Meeting at 
the end of October.
     * ICANN’s progress on implementing internationalized domain names 
(IDNs), which have the goal of adding to the 37 characters presently 
available for domain names to tens of thousands of characters from many 
of the languages of the world.

“IDNs are going to change the face of the Internet when they arrive — it 
will give people the chance to register domain names with their names in 
their languages,” Dr Twomey added. “ICANN is about to launch a technical 
evaluation of the impact IDNs will have, and if all goes well 
internationalized domain names could be available sometime in 2008.”

Links to the agenda and registration for the Taipei meeting are online 
at: http://taipei2007.icann.org/.
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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
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