[EURO-Discuss] Save the Date - Fwd: NEWS RELEASE: DENIC eG, eco e.V. and City of Hamburg Act as Joint Hosts of ICANN Annual General Meeting in Fall 2020

[Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond]

Thanks you Werner.
Yes, this has just been announced after the Board meeting resolutions
were published:
https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2018-06-23-en#1.d

The calendar of meetings is on: https://meetings.icann.org/en/calendar

Kindest regards,

Olivier

On 28/06/2018 13:59, Werner Hülsmann (DVD) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I didn't see this information on this list, so I share it with you.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Werner
>
>
>
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> Betreff: 	[DENICpublic-l] NEWS RELEASE: DENIC eG, eco e.V. and City of
> Hamburg Act as Joint Hosts of ICANN Annual General Meeting in Fall 2020
> Datum: 	Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:26:56 +0200
> Von: 	DENIC Presse <presse at denic.de>
>
> 	
> An: 	public-l at list.denic.de
>
>
>
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> Important decisions on the core functions of the Internet could be taken
> in Germany in 2020: Along with the City of Hamburg, German ccTLD Manager
> DENIC eG (.DE) and eco – Association of the Internet Industry will act
> as joint hosts of the 69th ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned
> Names and Numbers) meeting from 17 to 22 October 2020. ICANN is a
> not-for-profit organization which is responsible for the global
> coordination of names and parameters for the functioning and further
> development of the Internet. The decision in favour of Hamburg was taken
> on 24 June 2018 at the ICANN 62 Policy Forum in Panama.
>
> “After Berlin in 1999, this is the first time in 20 years that we have
> brought an ICANN conference to Germany,” says Oliver Süme, Chair of the
> Board of eco – Association of the Internet Industry. “With eco, DENIC,
> and the City of Hamburg, strong partners from industry and politics have
> joined to achieve this goal.”
>
> ICANN coordinates the management of address identifiers on the Internet
> For the Internet to work, domain names and IP numbers world-wide need to
> be unique. The central task of ICANN, founded in 1998, is to ensure this
> in collaboration with the global Internet community. As a result,
> Internet users anywhere in the world can, for example, type www.denic.de
> into their browser and thus reliably reach the DENIC webpage.
>
> “An open, free, and secure Internet is a strategic priority for DENIC.
> The commitment of the German Internet Community has been honored with
> the decision to bring the ICANN meeting to Hamburg. This will offer a
> good opportunity to put the German and European perspectives to the
> table at an even broader level,” says DENIC Board Member Dr. Jörg
> Schweiger. DENIC operates Germany‘s top-level domain .DE, which
> currently – with close to 16.3m domains under management – is the
> second-largest country-targeted namespace on the Internet.
>
> Alongside the country-targeted ones, there are also generic domain
> suffixes, including – on offer for several years now – ones with a clear
> regional focus. The City of Hamburg actively supported the registration
> of the new top-level domain .hamburg, so that, for example, the Hamburg
> police website can now be reached at <https://www.polizei.hamburg>.
>
> City of Hamburg welcomes international Internet community ICANN meetings
> are held three times a year, at varying locations around the world. The
> 2020 ICANN Annual General Meeting will run from 17 to 22 October in
> Hamburg. The organizers expect around 2,500 to 3,500 attendees to
> participate in this conference from academia, the tech community,
> politics, industry, and civil society: “Hamburg is smart and innovative,
> and is therefore a suitable setting for such an important conference of
> the international Internet community,” says Hamburg’s Senator of
> Economic Affairs, Frank Horch. The hosting partners had submitted their
> application to ICANN in November 2016, under the coordination of the
> Hamburg Convention Bureau.
>
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> Kind regards
> Stefanie Welters
> Public Relations

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