This document discusses ICANN and its activities in Asia Pacific. It provides an overview of what ICANN does including managing the Domain Name System (DNS), IP addresses, and generic and country-code top-level domains. It describes ICANN's multistakeholder model and engagement strategy in Asia Pacific focused on awareness, capacity building, and stakeholder participation. It also discusses the new gTLD program, internationalized domain names, ICANN accountability, and how to get involved.

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

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What does ICANN do?!

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+ 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!

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ICANN in Asia Pacific!

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!
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

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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

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New gTLDs Program!
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• 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

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

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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?!