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• WHOIS — why should end users care
• New gTLD's — what does the mean and how does it work
• Olivier-  EURALO developing priority list

Primer's Outline

1. Wider IG landscape, and a non-exhaustive list of things to mention:
- ITU - particularly with DOA now being part of many of its Study Groups
-  "Enhanced cooperation" WG at the CSTD
- Human Right Council discussions about the Internet - which are feeding into EU and civil society efforts at ICANN to increase human rights discussions
- WEF's increasing number of Internet discussions (2 ex-ICANN CEOs are now involved in this, so 
- IGF (not sure I'd want to state this so boldly, but with IGF limping along and making its original support base feel increasingly frustrated, people may start looking for ICANN to fill the hole that IGF currently can't)

2. Domain names in the future Internet (including alternative identifiers)
- IoT (DOA)
- apps (that don't require users to see or input domain names)
- search engines (people using search engines to find sites & services, rather than typing in a URL)
- possibly overview of the study that looked at consumer awareness of new gTLDs

3. Geographical names and codes:
- WIPO geographic indicator discussions
- New case by Iceland government against UK Iceland Foods
- How ccTLDs are responding to new gTLDs (some ccTLDs now allowing registrations at the 2nd level, to compete with new gTLDs, effectively helping to blur the line between cc and g names... and also therefore blurring the whole issue of what is a geo name that should be associated with a specific territory)
- Overview of all the groups within ICANN where country & geo names & codes are being discussed (& associated docs)

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Fitness for purpose: WHOIS is an old protocol and service. It is being used on a scale and in ways that were not envisioned by its original creators.  The ICANN community has been engaged in developing successor directory services[icann.org] that would meet the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s internet users.

Responses to Questionnaire on Areas of Interest :

• APRALO
  
  
• AFRALO

• EURALO

• LACRALO

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