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<p class=MsoPlainText><a
href="http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-20sep07.htm">http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-20sep07.htm</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>ICANN, TWNIC Host “Toward the New Era of
Internet” in Taipei<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Internationalized domain names, Internet security key
topics at three-day meeting<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>20 September 2007<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers is joining forces with the Taiwan Network
Information Centre<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>(TWNIC) to host a special regional meeting —
“Toward the New Era of Internet” — in Taipei 19-21 October
2007.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>“ICANN, TWNIC, and the global Internet community
are tackling some of the most important issues impacting the Internet since its
creation,” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>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.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Some of the meeting highlights include:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> * Internet security and the challenges it presents
to governments, service providers, and end-users<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> * 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<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> * 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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> * 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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>“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.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Links to the agenda and registration for the Taipei
meeting are online<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>at: <a href="http://taipei2007.icann.org/">http://taipei2007.icann.org/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(From the gNSO Secretariat)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Mark McFadden<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Secretariat, ISPCP Constituency<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>mcfadden@ispcp.info<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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