At-Large Beijing Meeting Reports Workspace

When typing a name in a browser for example, that name must be first translated into a number by a system before the connection can be established. That system is called the Domain Name System (DNS) and it translates names like www.icann.org into the numbers – called Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. ICANN coordinates the addressing system to ensure all the addresses are unique.

DNSSEC   (DNS Security Extension) is a technology to secure the Domain Name System.

During this session, the panelist presented through a sketch a scenario where user is redirected to another website pretending that it is the one he is looking for when there is a security problem.  DNNSEC can be implemented by any individual or organization who is handling a Domain name System server or simply a name server.

Another session for a half day workshop is scheduled for April 10, 2013.  

Report on New gTLD SSR Update by SSAC Liaison

The Audiocast of the Session can be found at http://beijing46.icann.org/node/37057

11 April 2013, 09:00 - 10:30

Members of the MSWG Group:

This was the first meeting of the Meeting Strategy Working Group (MSWG). It was mostly an introductory meeting. The agenda was as follows: 

1.Welcome

2.Composition

3.Goals

4.Deliverables

5.Organization

6.Schedule

7.AOB (any other business)

Please check here for more details: https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/40929548/ICANN_MSWG_Beijing_2013_04_11_fin+%283%29.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1367251475241

The next meeting will be a telephone conference to be held May 2, 2013 @ 1400UTC. The group agreed to have these calls every two weeks going forward.

This was one of the final meetings of the WG.

The Study Group was established by a resolution of the ccNSO Council on 8 December 2010. The Study Group was tasked with developing an overview of:

• the way in which the names of countries and territories are currently used within ICANN, be it in the form of policies, guidelines and/or procedures;

• the types of strings, relating to the names of countries and territories that currently used, or proposed to be used, as TLDs; and

• the issues that arise (or may arise) when current policies, guidelines and procedures are applied to these representations of country and territory names. 

The Study Group is comprised of representatives from across the ICANN stakeholder community and has been conducting its work since May 2011.

A Final draft report was discussed and will be shortly presented to the public for comments.

Final draft recommendations from the group are:

• The ccNSO Council is recommended to request the Board to extend the current rule in the Applicant Guidebook to exclude all country and territory names in all languages, for consecutive rounds of new gTLD applications.
• It is further recommended that the ccNSO Council takes the initiative to establish a cross community working group to review the current definitions of country and territory names under current policies and propose a consistent and uniform definition that should be applicable across the respective SO’s and AC’s. The GNSO, ALAC and GAC should be invited to participate in such a WG.

Please check meeting transcript here: Transcript Country Names Beijing.pdf and final draft report here: 2012-03 ccNSO Study Group on Country and Territory Names -Final Report v02.docx