ICANN and the CCTLD: Global Issues and their Relevance to the Countries in CEE and FSU

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ICANN and the CCTLD Global Issues and their
Relevance to the Countries in CEE and FSU

• Zita Wenzel, Ph.D.
• Information Sciences Institute
• University of Southern California
• Los Angeles, CA USA

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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

• IANA Jon Postel
• Dedicated to preserving the central coordinating
  functions of the global Internet for the public
  good.
• Functions
• Protocol parameter assignment
• IP address allocation
• Domain Name System (DNS) coordination
• Root server system coordination

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History of ICANN

• Funding from US Government ending
• Privatization needed
• Need to contractualize all relationships
• Need to provide bottom-up representation
• Need to provide international representation

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Overview of ICANN
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Global Issues for CCTLDs

• Relationship with ICANN
• Relationship with governments
• Best Practice document
• Internationalized domain names
• CCTLD constituency

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CCTLD-ICANN Relationship

• Root server system and function
• Domain Name System coordination
• Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy
• Funding

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CCTLDs and Governments

• For the good of the local community
• Fair and equitable
• Stable and reliable
• Able to function internationally

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Best Practice Document

• Technical administrative requirements
• Redelegation requirements
• Use RFC 1591 as a starting point
• See also Internet-Draft-Klensin-1591
• GAC document regarding CCTLDs
• CCTLD working group has draft

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Internationalized Domain Names

• To use native language
• Domain names
• URLs
• Email
• IETF working group (IDN) requirements
• Multilingual Internet Names Consortium

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CCTLD Constituency

• CCTLD DNSO representatives
• Nii Quaynor (.GH), Patricio Poblete (.CL), Dennis
  Jennings (formerly-.IE)
• Best Practice document by July meeting
• CCTLD secretariat (AFNIC/AP proposal)
• CCTLD mailing list

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Attributes of CCTLDs

• Representing local Internet community
• Technical administrative competence
• In country-use versus open registration
• For profit versus not-for-profit

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Specific Issues for CEE and FSU

• Regional representation
• Current groups are Asia-Pacific, Africa, Western
  Europe, Latin America, North America
• Differences in governments and economies
• Differences in languages and cultures
• Cyrillic
• MoU with Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia
• CEETLD? FSUTLD?