[NA-Discuss] Presentation from last night

[Evan Leibovitch]

Hello everyone,

Last night I made a presentation on ICANN issues to the Toronto Linux
User Group.

A brief time was spent with introductions of ICANN and the domain name
system, then I addressed some of the interesting stories and issues --
especially gTLDs.

There were no slides to go with the show -- I was working with a
blackboard :-) -- but I posted some follow-up links. And you can
pretty-well tell the flow of my talk based on the links and their order.

As a result of the talk we may actually get another ALS application or
two. Given that ICANN has starved At-Large of outreach resources for
more than a year, going out and talking about ICANN within your local
circles appears to be the only way -- at least for now -- that we're
going to get any more North American ALSs involved.

I hope the collection of links below is helpful, at least as a guide to
the things you may want to talk about in an "ICANN 101" talk of your own
-- Evan



(1) ICANN basics:
http://icann.org/
http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/
http://www.icannwatch.org/

(2) ICANN At-Large
http://www.atlarge.icann.org/en/
http://www.atlarge.icann.org/summit-en.htm
http://www.atlarge.icann.org/announcements/announcement-05mar09-en.htm
(my speech that closed the Summit)

(3) Not everyone thinks that ICANN At-Large is useful
http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/offalac.html (I can't say that I
totally disagree but I remain optimistic)

(4) NARALO (the north american region of at-large)
https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi

(5) On becoming an ALS:
http://www.atlarge.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-23may05.htm
http://www.atlarge.icann.org/en/framework.htm
http://www.atlarge.icann.org/files/atlarge/als-application-form-en.doc

(6) Examples of the testing of domain names using Unicode
(Internationalized domain names)
http://例子.測試/
http://مثال.إختبار/
http://בײַשפּיל.טעסט/
http://παράδειγμα.δοκιμή/
If you can't see or use them try
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_level_domains

(7) IPV6 info:
http://www.icann.org/announcements/factsheet-ipv6-26oct07.pdf
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/02/icann-flips-switch-on-ipv6-dns-root-servers.ars
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/05/one-small-step-google-officially-supports-ipv6.ars
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/26/1753259&from=rss
http://ipv6.google.com/

(8) DNSSEC info:
http://mex.icann.org/files/meetings/mexico2009/atlarge-summit-dnssec-infrastructure-28feb09-en.pdf
http://mex.icann.org/files/meetings/mexico2009/tuma-dnssec-implementation-04mar09-en.pdf
http://www.dnssec-deployment.org/

(9) Some lesser-known current TLDs:
http://about.museum/
http://www.travel.travel/
http://www.information.aero/gateway/index_html
http://www.nic.name/
http://www.dotasia.org/

(10) The sad story of .xxx
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2007-03-30-icann-xxx_N.htm?csp=34

(11) The only place the Soviet Union still lives -- ICANN:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2008-04-18-196687842_x.htm
http://www.nic.ru/dns/service/en/su.html

(12) Some examples of preliminary efforts to build support for city and
culturally based top-level domains:
http://www.pointquebec.org/
http://www.dotcym.org/home/
http://www.dotsco.org/
http://www.dotberlin.de/
http://connectingnyc.org/
http://www.dotker.org-a.googlepages.com/home

(13) New gTLD process
http://icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/draft-rfp-redline-18feb09-en.pdf
https://st.icann.org/working-groups/index.cgi?at_large_gtld_working_group_statement_on_applicant_guidebook_v2