Category: ICANN Announcements

16 million unused IPv4 address now available for use on the Internet

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has found a little breathing room in the IPv4 address space with its recovery of a block of 16 million IPv4 addresses.

The IP addresses recovered were once used to connect older protocol packet-data networks with the fledgling Internet. The block of addresses, technically referred to as 14.0.0.0/8, is also known as Net-14.

Westlake Consulting Limited (WCL) was selected by ICANN’s Board of Directors to conduct an independent review of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) . WCL’s review team is gathering information from many different sources, including a series of in-person discussions and briefings at the ICANN meeting in New Delhi, from 10-14 February. WCL will conduct further interviews in person and electronically with a range of people who have an interest, directly or indirectly, in the ALAC, with a view to achieving the objectives of the Review:

• [To determine] whether the ALAC has a continuing purpose in the ICANN structure; and,
• If so, whether any change in structure or operations is desirable to improve its effectiveness.
  

India, Asia represent future of the changing face of the Internet

NEW DELHI, INDIA: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will open its 31 st International Public Meeting on 11 February 2008 in New Delhi, India, a country and a region certain to be a the forefront of the waves of changes coming to the Internet.

“India and Asia are at the heart of the Internet’s future — a future that ICANN is working on as we speak,” said Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN’s Board Chairman. “Internet penetration in India is at just over five percent and growing fast — considering that one per cent is 11 million people coming online. ICANN’s work on Internationalized Domain Names and new top-level domains has the potential to reach out to rest of India and begin remaking the Internet as people connect in their own languages and scripts.”

DNS Stability: The Effect of New Generic Top Level Domains on the Internet Domain Name System [PDF, 53K]

The ICANN community has recently completed a policy development process regarding the introduction of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This effort took place within ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) (see http://gnso.icann.org/) and resulted in a set of recommendations to guide ICANN in introducing new gTLDs to the namespace.

The Initial Operating Plan and Budget Framework [PDF, 904K] kicks off the operational planning process for ICANN, providing the community with a first look at planned work and costs for fiscal year 2009. The planning approach this year accelerates the date when information is available to the community, and extends the review period, so the community has the maximum opportunity to provide input and help mold the fiscal year 2009 budget.