1. ICANN update APTLD Meeting Moscow, Russia Veni Markovski ICANN 21 June 2012

2. Overview 1.Policy 2.New gTLDs 3.New CEO, new VPs 4.IANA 5.Root Servers 6.Upcoming ICANN meetings 7.Other events

3. Policy

4. 1.GNSO policy issues 2.ccNSO policy issues (Keith Davidson) 3.ALAC policy issues 4.ASO policy issues 5.Participation and engagement 6.Stay connected http://www.icann.org/en/topics/policy/ 7.ICANN Policy staff: David Olive, VP. General email: policy- staff@icann.org

5. New gTLDs

6. Current Status: 1930 applications Numbers: 66 geographic names, 116 in non- Latin scripts, applicants from 60 countries (911 – North America, 675 – Europe, 303 – Asia-Pacific, 24 – Latin America & Caribean, 17 – Africa) What’s next? 60-days comments period Issues

7. What is Universal Acceptance? Ensure Internet software universally accepts all domains (including IDNs) Problems when software checks user input against a hard-coded list of TLDs, TLD character length, or other incomplete or outdated criteria Does not cover policy aspects of what TLDs should be allowed or restricted

8. 8 Examples of acceptability issues

9. ICANN’s activities Created discussion forum and dedicated webpage Posted TLD verification tool at: https://github.com/icann Consultations with ICANN stakeholders Technical recommendations Outreach campaign 9

10. Technical recommendations Do you need to check domain validity? If not, don’t do it. Rethink why you do it. If so, is it an online application? If so, use a DNS query which is instant and up-to- date, don’t rely on a fixed list. Last case scenario Use a fixed list of TLDs, but make sure it has an update mechanism (e.g. once per day) 10

11. Universal Acceptance of TLDs To learn about the effort, go to: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/tld- acceptance Submit comments, share suggestions and report acceptability issues to: tld-acceptance@icann.org 11

12. New CEO

13. New Vice President for Europe

14. Suspense…

15. What is this?

16. New Office Address 12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536, USA Phone: +1 310 823 9358 FAX: +1 310 823 8649

17. IANA

18. Improving internal processes to cater for the New gTLD Program Continuing with Business Excellence work. Preparing for potential requirements relating to the new IANA Contract DNSSEC is cools, everything is going smoothly

19. Root Servers

20. Old L-Root Sites

21. New L-Root Sites

22. Upcoming ICANN meetings

23. Upcoming meetings http://meetings.icann.org/ Everyone is welcome (and I bet you are all coming?) –ICANN 44 - Prague, Czech Republic 24-29 June 2012 –ICANN 45 - Toronto, Canada 14-19 October 2012

24. Other Events Regional ccTLD meeting (September 11-13, Montenegro) IGF (November 6-9, Baku, Azerbaijan) WTSA (November 20-29, Dubai) WCIT (December 3-14, Dubai)

25. Thank you! Veni.Markovski@icann.org