What's hot at ICANN - Tim Cole, Sr. Director Registrar Relations, ICANN
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The document provides an overview of hot topics at ICANN, including: 1) Negotiations over the Registrar Accreditation Agreement to reflect changes in the domain name industry. 2) Organizational changes at ICANN including a new CEO and emphasis on internationalization. 3) The launch of over 1,930 applications for new generic top-level domains, with the first being added to the root zone in June 2013.
What's hot at ICANN - Tim Cole, Sr. Director Registrar Relations, ICANN
- 1. Whats Hot at ICANN? A brief backgrounder ResellerClub 2 November 2012 Hosting Summit Mumbai, India
- 2. Topics ≒ ICANNs Role in Domain Name Registra7ons ≒ Registrar Accredita7on Agreement (RAA) Nego7a7ons ≒ Organiza7onal Changes ≒ New gTLDs ≒ MyICANN 2
- 3. ICANNs Role in Domain Name Registrations 3
- 4. gTLD Contractual Rela7onships Registry Agreement Registry Registry-Registrar Agreement (RRA) Registrar Accreditation Registration Registrar Agreement Registrant Agreement (RAA) 4
- 5. ICANNs Rela7onship with Registrars ≒ Manage rela7onships with more than 1,000 ICANN Accredited Registrars ≒ Conduct contract & policy trainings through outreach and regional mee7ngs ≒ Audit and enforce ICANNs contracts & policies ≒ Build and maintain strategic, collabora7ve rela7onships 5
- 6. ICANNs Rela7onship with Registrars ≒ Use communica7on and compliance tools to create value and deliver mutual business objec7ves ≒ Focus on aspects that really maOer trust, approach to dealing with problems, mee7ng stakeholder needs and providing incen7ves to perform ≒ Use compliance to level compe77ve marketplace by elimina7ng bad actors 6
- 7. RAA Negotiations 7
- 8. RAA Nego7a7ons ≒ New Contract for Registrars to Re鍖ect Changing Environment ≒ Greater Law Enforcement Issues ≒ Streamlined Process to Add TLDs ≒ Data Reten7on and Whois specs ≒ Reseller Accountability ≒ Privacy/Proxy Accredita7on ≒ Data Valida7on 8
- 10. Organiza7onal Changes ≒ New CEO Fadi Chehad辿 ≒ Emphasis on Interna7onaliza7on 5 billion new Internet users over the next 20 years, mostly from Asia Expansion of Mul7stakeholder Model ≒ Global/Stakeholder Engagement Two new VPs in Europe ≒ Regional VPs 10
- 11. Organiza7onal Changes ≒ Matrix model designed to bring ICANN services closer to Internet user in all of regions, and to help develop the Internet and the Internet industry in all regions ≒ India is a major ICANN priority 11
- 12. Mul7stakeholder Model ≒ Founda7on upon which ICANN was built ≒ Designed to give ALL users of the Internet a voice in how the Internet operates ≒ Stakeholder and Advisory Groups provide input to policy making that is acted upon by the Board and implemented by Sta鍖 12
- 13. Mul7stakeholder Model Indias Role ≒ India has contributed signi鍖cantly to Board representa7on through Ram Mohan and Ramaraj Rajasekhar, one of the Boards most in鍖uen7al members whos term just expired ≒ Both ICANN and Indias vision of the Internet future evolving 13
- 14. Mul7stakeholder Model Indias Role ≒ The Mul7stakeholder Model was recently endorsed by Indias Minister of State for Telecom Sachin Pilot; spoke against balkaniza7on or inter-足 governmental control of the Internet 14
- 15. Mul7stakeholder Model Indias Role ≒ Indias Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, maintained at two recent mee7ngs on Internet governance in India in September 2012, that India was 鍖rmly against government control of the Internet 15
- 16. New Generic Top Level Domains 16
- 17. New gTLDs ≒ 1,930 Applica7ons 66 Geographic names 116 IDNs ≒ Applica7ons from 60 countries and territories 911 from North America. 675 from Europe. 303 are from Asia-足Paci鍖c. 24 from La7n America and the Caribbean. 17 from Africa 17
- 18. New gTLDs ≒ Priori7za7on Drawing ≒ IDNs top priority ≒ First new TLDs in root by June ≒ Rights Protec7on Mechanisms (TMCH, URS) ≒ Universal Acceptance 18
- 19. MyICANN 19
- 20. Insert Video Demo of MyICANN: https://www.youtube.com/watch? feature=player_embedded&v=dsZj- Eo2kM4#t=283s 20
- 21. Questions 21
- 22. Contact Informa7on Contact/Resource Information Tim Cole Senior Director Registrar Rela7ons +1 310 301 5811 7m.cole@icann.org
- 23. Thank You