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Ceremony recognizes Regional At-Large Organization, first Asia-Pacific At-Large General Assembly

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Individual Internet users from Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands have direct input into the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a fact recognized today with the ceremonial signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and the Internet user groups who participate in the Asia-Pacific Regional At-Large Organization (APRALO).

The APRALO conducted its first General Assembly as a part of ICANN’s 31st International Public Meeting in New Delhi. They discussed issues that will affect Internet users throughout the region and the world. The Internet user groups who are a part of APRALO are incredibly diverse, and include users from India, Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates.

In planning for implementation of the new gTLD policy recommendations, and in response to inquiries form the ICANN community, ICANN is conducting a review of the status of applications from the New gTLD round in 2000 that were not selected for negotiations.

During the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles in 2007, ICANN’s General Counsel agreed to review references and information relating the prior gTLD applications. Below is a summary of relevant background material identified.

Executive Summary

The Registrar Data Escrow (RDE) program is an ICANN initiative designed to enhance protection of registrants by requiring ICANN-accredited registrars to escrow critical registration data so that it can be released to ICANN upon termination of the registrar’s accreditation agreement. ICANN has performed tests of the RDE system, including a “process test” and “stress test” designed to ensure effectiveness of the program’s technical specifications and test the data-release procedures used by escrow agents in the event of registrar termination.

Both the “process” and “stress” tests were concluded satisfactorily, leading to some enhancements to data-release procedures, such as redundant authentication of release requests by out-of-channel means (i.e., telephone verification by an ICANN officer or attorney), and clarification of registrar on-boarding documentation.

Biggest names in Indian high-tech to share success stories with global audience

NEW DELHI, India: Some of the most prestigious names in the Indian IT industry will share their insights and experiences with the global audience at a session at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers 31st International Public Meeting in New Delhi today.

“ICANN is honoured that these leaders of the Indian IT sector will take part in our meeting and share their invaluable insights into the strategies and models that have rocketed India to the forefront of the global IT sector,” said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN’s President and CEO.

Nation’s work on Internationalized Domain Names has lessons for global project

NEW DELHI, INDIA: The Indian experience with Internationalized Domain Names and possible lessons for global implementation of IDNs will be front and center at a workshop at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers 31st International Public Meeting slated for 13 February 2008 at 11 am local time.

“ICANN’s IDN program is about making close to 100,000 characters from the languages of the world available at the top level – the part after the dot — so users can benefit from a domain name in fully localized language or script,” said Tina Dam, ICANN’s IDN Program Director. ” India has 22 official languages and has done a great deal of foundation work on how languages and scripts – or the collection of characters used in a language – can be categorized and used. There are a lot of lessons for the world coming out of the work being done in India.”