ICANN Toronto: what to expect?

netnames.com 11 Oct '12, 4pm

ICANN Toronto: what to expect? | NetNames Blog

ICANN’s 2012 Annual General Meeting is about to get under way in Toronto, Canada. These international meetings are a key part of the Internet’s technical governance. ICANN’s main prerogatives are threefold: to manage the Internet numbering system (IP addresses), naming system (domain names) and the protocols that go with both. So what is to be expected of the Toronto meeting? A new CEO… Although he was appointed in June, new ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé was not due to start before October to give him time to wind up other business activities. But Chehadé was already very active at the June ICANN meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, and has kept very busy since. “I have spent the past two months asking myself and many others from all over the Internet community worldwide the same questions,” Chehadé said on September 14, the day he officially took over as CEO two weeks earlier than...

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@mariafarrell » 13 Oct '12, 2pm
Great intro piece to #ICANN45 by outgoing GNSO Council Chair, @stephvg Outlines new CEO's 4 priorities for improvement [link]
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ICANN Toronto: what to expect? by Stephan Van Gelder [link] #gtlds #icann #newgtlds
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