ICANN Weekly Newsletter
News from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
http://www.icann.org Week ending 25 April 2008
Announcements This Week
ICANN Opens Comment Period on PIR's Proposed Implementation of DNSSEC
ICANN is opening a comment period on Public Interest Registry's proposed implementation of DNS Security Extensions in .ORG.
23 April 2008
Request for Proposals (RFP) for an Independent Evaluator for the ICANN Board of Directors
ICANN is seeking to appoint an independent evaluator to undertake a review of the ICANN Board.
21 April 2008
ICANN in the News
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Securing the Internet's DNS (Dark Reading)
The Internet is slowly inching closer to ratcheting up the security of its Domain Name System server architecture: ICANN plans to go operational with the secure DNS technology, DNSSEC, later this year in one of its domains.
24 April 2008
Despite guidelines, assigning Net domain names is tricky (The Age)
About 250 country-code domain names exist for various nations or territories around the world, used as suffixes in the Internet addresses crucial for computers to find Web sites and route e-mail. Outside the United States, these suffixes are often preferred over the global ".com" as a source of national pride. But deciding who gets to have one or keep one can be tricky.
18 April 2008
Upcoming Events
12 - 15 May 2008 - ITU Africa Telecom - Cairo, Egypt
20 June 2008 - EGENI Europe 2008 - Paris, France
22 - 27 June 2008: 32nd International Public ICANN Meeting -
Paris, France
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