ICANN Newsletter
A weekly electronic newsletter from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
http://www.icann.org Week ending 2 March 2007
Announcements This Week
Proposed .MUSEUM sTLD Registry Agreement Posted for Public Comment
2 March 2007
2 March 2007
ICANN in the News
Web Site Owners May Get Tougher to Find (Law.com)
28 February 2007
Registerfly Faces Losing ICANN Accreditation (Ars Technica)
27 February 2007
ICANN At Work
During the past week, ICANN staff have provided input to the Internet community at events such as:
- The APTLD Meeting in Bali, Indonesia. Staff spoke on issues such as Internationalized Domain Names and registrar practices.
ICANN Featured Individual: John L. Crain, Chief Technical Officer
John is currently the Chief Technical Officer at ICANN, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (http://www.icann.org). The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for 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.
Prior to his time at ICANN, John worked as part of the executive management team at the RIPE NCC in Amsterdam (http://www.ripe.net). The RIPE NCC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) that provides Internet resource allocations for Europe and surrounding areas.
John has been directly involved in the administration of Internet Identifiers since his start at the RIPE NCC in 1995 and has worked in all areas of IP address administration.
John also has extensive experience in the area of DNS administration and managing Internet infrastructure services. Currently he is responsible for the management of l.root-servers.net, one of the Internet’s 13 “Root Servers” (http://www.root-servers.org)
Before becoming involved in Internet Administration John worked as a Design Engineer in composite materials research and development. In that role John was also responsible for local area networking of Computer Aided Design Systems and for writing and developing custom software applications.
Upcoming Events
8 – 9 March 2007 — CENTR General Assembly, Prague, Czech Republic
18 – 23 March 2007 — 68th IETF Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic
26 – 30 March 2007 — ICANN Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal
About ICANN
Our bylaws are very important to us. They capture our mission of security, stability and accessibility, and compel the organization to be open and transparent. Learn more at www.ICANN.org.
Strategic Plan, July 2007– June 2010 [PDF, 72K]
Operating Plan (Draft) Fiscal Year 2006 – 2007
Proposed Budget Fiscal Year 2006 – 2007 [PDF, 180K]
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