Paul Twomey Keynote Speech – Live from Traffic DownUnder 2008

November 17, 1 Comment

Paul Twomey is the CEO of ICANN. His speech mainly focused on stability, resiliency and security of the Internet.

IDN ccTLDs

• Draft implementation plan posted for 45-day public comment period ending December 8.
• Many issues to be resolved.

Protective Measures (that ICANN provide)

• Timely de-accreditation and transfer of names to accredited registrars.
• Compliance audits, surveys, reports – transparency and accountability.

Registrar Accreditation Agreement

Substantative changes developed in cooperation with the community include proposals for:

• Stricter enforcement provisions
• Improved data protection and notice and education requirements
• Shared compliance responsibilities

Data Escrow, Data Accuracy and Warehousing

• Over 95% of all domain name registrations are with a data escrow provider.

RegistrarFly Issue

During the RegisterFly issue, we were trying to looking after the registrants;  one of the issues we had was to identify the registrants.

What Does The Future Hold?

• Global economy will be a major factor in the foreseeable future?
• Fastest growth and greatest potential lies in Africa, Asia, Middle East
• New gTLDs and IDN TLDs will bring challenges to do business around the world.
• Explosion in multilingual, multiculturalcontent, ideas, social and business interaction, education, things we have not dreamed of.

The Internet of the Future

• Internet and the domain name space are rapidly evolving.
• Wider variety of devices used to provide services.
• Evolving new services – banking and financial services – based on proximity
• Evolving new products – smart objects, RFID embedded objects, Internet enabled as standard
• Evolving new products – RFID technologies
• Convergence of other uses with devices
• Wide variety of devices used to provide services
• Increasing demand for products and services by developing countries

ICANN stands for a single, stable, globally interoperable Internet.

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2. Domain Economics With Dan Warner – Live From Traffic DownUnder 2008
3. Michael Gilmour Talks Risk – Traffic DownUnder 2008
4. Mike Fiol on Community Development – TRAFFIC Downunder 2008
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