Update on ICANN Carthage (5th Annual Meeting) Ching Chiao APTLD Secretariat

Content ccTLD / ccNSO Meeting GNSO / gTLD Meeting Government Advisory Committee (GAC) At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) Major Issues WHOIS Wildcard on DNS Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Outreach Activities Noteworthy

(after Montreal Meeting)

ccTLD / ccNSO Meeting Discussion on ICANN ccNSO Bylaw Info. Sharing on WSIS, IDN, VoIP, ENUM, WHOIS, Wildcard Issues Special Session on IANA / ISO-3166.TN,.KE,.MR,.SN,.ZA presentations First AfTLD GA Possible Formation of Arabic ccTLD Organization First ccNSO Member Meeting Held and Council Election Method Discussed Question on Continuation of Service Provided by the Current ccTLD Secretariat

GNSO / gTLD Meeting com, net, org, biz, info, aero, coop, museum, pro, name 3 reps. per constituency to the Council (2 suppliers and 4 users const.) WHOIS Task Force New TLD Evaluation Criteria gTLD Name Deletion Policy

GAC ccTLD Policies Delegation and re-Delegation ccNSO Formation Agree to Update GAC ccTLD Principle WIPO II Implementation Task Force WHOIS Data IPv6 Workshop Consideration on Updating Structure, Organization and Financing

ALAC Roadmap of 5 Regional At-Large Organizations (RALO) Inviting At-Large Structure (ALS) to join RALO

Major Issue (1) -- WHOIS Discussion (in Montreal) on Priority and Best-Practice GNSO WHOIS Task Force Setup for Data Mining, Privacy, and Bulk Access Issues Workshop for IDN WHOIS Environment, WHOIS Data Element Review, User Classification, etc. More Ongoing Work Next Year

Major Issue (2) -- Wildcard Wildcard: ”*”, “?” Public Discussion on Verisign SiteFinder (launched on mid-Sept., suspended on Oct. 4th) prior to and during the Carthage Meeting Commercial Use of Wildcard on DNS ccTLD Use of Wildcard Issues of Stability and Security

Major Issue (3) -- IDN 4 RFCs Moving Tech. Standard to Desktop App. IDN Registration and Dispute Policy Difference of gTLD vs. ccTLD on IDN MINC’s Role on Arabic Domain Name

Outreach Activities GAC Arab and African Workshop ccTLD Name Server Training ALAC Arab Outreach Activities

Noteworthy ICANN as a pre-event of WSIS 2005 in Tunisia Voice from Internet Users in African / Arabic region Hospitality of Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI) ICANN 2003: Year of Reform

Next Year 2-6 March in Rome, Italy June in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1-5 December in Cape Town, South Africa