ICANN Concludes Successful 32nd Meeting in Paris

Gaetan EGLOFF — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:06:00 GMT

Board gives go-ahead for expansion of the domain name system.

PARIS, FRANCE: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) concluded its 32nd International Public Meeting in Paris today after four days of discussions that will shape the future of the Internet. The conclusion of the meeting saw the approval of a proposal to expand the world’s Domain Name System and to work on adapting it to accommodate top level domain names in scripts such as Arabic, Cyrillic or other non-Latin scripts.

Over 1670 participants from 150 countries, including 250 participants from the host country France, took part in the meeting, and helped ICANN make great progress in several key areas. At the closing session, the ICANN Board and community thanked the meeting’s sponsors and gave particular thanks to French Minister of State Eric Besson who opened ICANN's meeting at the beginning of the week. (The Minister of State is responsible for Forward Planning, Assessment of Public Policies and Development of the Digital Economy.)

26 June 2008http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-26jun08-en.htm La création de nouvelles extensions votée par le gestionnaire de l'internet (ICANN)PARIS (AFP) — Le conseil d'administration de l'Icann, instance chargée de gérer au niveau mondial les adresses internet, a adopté jeudi à l'unanimité le principe de la création de nouvelles extensions, a annoncé un responsable de l'Afnic, association s'occupant des noms de domaine français.http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iCiklC2yKg2DDUsMimQRQqlkIGSw

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ICANN Concludes Successful 32nd Meeting in Paris