ICANN sets agenda for 2005  

With rampaging poverty, low level of literacy and largely underdeveloped IT infrastructures, Africa's underprivileged Internet status took the front burner
at the yearly meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) taking place at
Cape Town, South Africa.

The five day event started yesterday December 1 with a
press conference late in the evening and would end 5th
December. The meeting continues today with agenda that
will include the introduction of ICANN's three year-strategic plan, and will also feature updates on
current Africa-related Internet issues, including the status of AfriNIC, the Regional Internet number Registry for Africa. The press conference held with Dr. Vint Cerf, ICANN Chairman & Dr. Paul Twomey, ICANN CEO & President

The meeting is ICANN's 4th in the region - the first
held in Egypt in 2000, then Ghana in 2002, Tunisia in 2003, and now South Africa. It aims to share with the participants its experiences and for the participants from the region to share with ICANN their expertise and
knowledge. [IT Edge will give daily online update of
proceedings]

Some of the key topics the meeting will address
include
* New generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) strategy.
* Implementation of the recent Inter-Registrar
Transfers policy.
* Finalising the request for proposals on the .net
re-bid.
* An overview of AfriNIC's plans for transitioning
management of
Internet number resources to local control and
roll-out of IPV6.
* Promoting understanding of Internationalised Domain
Names (IDNs).
* Advancing the interests of individual Internet user
communities
(At-Large).
* Discussions on how the ongoing United Nations'
Internet governance
process could affect Africa's Internet users.
ICANN encourages broad participation in its bottom-up
consensus-development
process. The meetings are free to attend, and open to
any interested person.
Meetings are webcast and will be simultaneously
translated in French (in association with Francophonie) and scribed English.
A full agenda and further details for the meeting can
be found at:
http://www.icann.org/meetings/capetown/
Individuals can take part in these meetings by:
* Attending in person
* Taking part in the webcast and remote participation
opportunities,
* Joining one of the various ICANN-related mailing
lists.
The meetings will be hosted by UniForum SA and more
information can be found at: www.icann.org <http://www.icann.org/> and http://www.icanncapetown.co.za/
Teleconference call-in time and date: 12/01/04 08:00/
(LA); 11:00 (DC);
16:00 (UK); 18:00 (SA) Toll Free +44-20-7019-0820;
Toll Free
+44-0800-279-9056; Toll Free USA: 1-877-951-7317:
Participant Pass code 14073
About ICANN
ICANN is an internationally organised, public benefit
non-profit responsible
for coordinating Internet Protocol (IP) address space
allocation, protocol
identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code
(ccTLD) Top-Level
Domain name system management, and root server system
management functions.

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