1. Discovering and Participating at ICANN !
!
bdNOG1 – Dhaka, Bangladesh !
23 May 2014 !

2. 2
What does ICANN do?!

3. 3
+ Domain Name System (DNS)
+ Internet Protocol (IP) Address Allocation
+ Protocol-Parameter Registry
+ Root Server Systems
+ Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLD) system
management
+ Country-code Top-Level Domain Name (ccTLD)
DNS
+ Time Zone Database Management
Functions that ICANN Coordinates!

4. +Every
Stakeholder
has an interest
in how the
internet
develops
+No single
stakeholder is
more
important than
any other
Multistakeholder Model!

5. 5
ICANN in Asia Pacific!

6. 6
!
APAC Engagement Strategy!
Focus
Areas
-­‐Awareness
Building
-­‐Capacity
Development
-­‐Language
Localiza<on
-­‐Mee<ng
Format
-­‐Increase
Stakeholder
Par<cipa<on
Pilots
-­‐KISA-­‐ICANN
MoU
-­‐NextGen@ICANN
-­‐Asia-­‐Pacific
Internet
Leadership
Project
-­‐APRICOT
2014
-­‐Centre
of
Excellence
for
DNS
*in
collabora*on
with
partners
Others
-­‐
Servicing
Contracted
Par<es
-­‐
APTLD/APNIC/
ICANN
joint
training
for
Jus<ce
Sector
-­‐
Southeast
Asia
Tour
-­‐
CommunicAsia
Exhibi<on

7. 7
Profiling Bangladesh’s Voice!
+ At-Large Committee (ALAC)
+ Represents end-users
+ Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC)
+ Key role to advice ICANN on issues of public policy
+ Usually meets 3x a year in conjunction with ICANN
meetings
+ Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO)
+ Body created for and by ccTLD managers
+ Responsible for developing and recommending
global policies to ICANN Board

8. 8
8
New gTLDs Program!
‫شبكة‬
онлайн
сайт
游戏
.VENTURES
.EQUIPMENT
.HOLDINGS
.GURU
.VOYAGE
.SINGLES
.LIGHTING
.CLOTHING
.CAMERA
.BIKE
.PLUMBING
.GRAPHICS
.CONTRACTORS
.GALLERY
.SEXY
.CONSTRUCTION
.TATTOO
.TECHNOLOGY
.ESTATE
.LAND
*From 19 November 2013
.TODAY
.DIAMONDS
.TIPS
.PHOTOGRAPHY
.DIRECTORY
.ENTERPRISES
.KITCHEN
.みんな/EVERYONE
.みんな
• How many strings delegated to date?
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/statistics
• Examples of delegated strings:

9. Internationalized Domain Names
• Domain names in non-Latin-based
(US-ASCII) scripts – e.g. Arabic,
Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek
…
• An IDN Variant TLD is an IDN TLD
that looks like or is considered
interchangeable with another by a
user of the related writing system –
e.g. in Simplified & Traditional
Chinese
9
Arabic
Bengali
Chinese
Cyrillic
Devanagari
Georgian
Greek
Gujara<
Gurmukhi
Hebrew
Japanese
Korean
La<n
Sinhala
Tamil
Telugu
Thai

10. 10
ICANN Accountability & Role in Ecosystem !
+ NETmundial (23 – 24 April 2014)
+ IANA transition of stewardship
+ Accountability

11. 11
How can you get involved?!
+ APAC Webinar
+ Bi-monthly, every 2nd Thursday, 11am (SG time)
+ 12 June, “Becoming a new gTLD registry, what’s next?”
+ APAC Newsletter
+ Subscribe to bi-monthly newsletter at
apachub@icann.org
+ Visit ICANN.org
+ get the latest resources on the topic
+ follow us on our social channels
+ join to contribute and/or follow the discussion
ianatransition@icann.org

12. Thank You &
Questions?!