ICANN Panel Preps for Lisbon
A group of advisors for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Web's key oversight agency, met by telephone on Monday morning to discuss strategic issues facing the organization in the 21st century. The briefing came a week before the ICANN community convenes in Lisbon, Portugal for one of several annual meetings.
The President's Strategy Committee, which was created after ICANN's December 2005 summit, resulted from calls for a renewed emphasis on a "bottom-up" ICANN process. The group released a series of draft recommendations in November and plans on furthering the discussion in Lisbon.
On the teleconference, ICANN President Paul Twomey said the panel has been focusing on the following topics:
• Issues pertaining to the legal status and identity of ICANN
• ICANN's ability to respond to a global environment and regional concerns
• Management of the "root zone" of the Internet addressing system
• Linkages to the U.S. government
• Capacity development and outreach issues
• Observations about ICANN internal review processes
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