Policy
Welcome to the ICANN Policy Information Area
The Policy Department invites you to receive monthly updates on ICANN policy development activities through a free online subscription to the ICANN Policy Update. To subscribe, simply visit the ICANN Subscriptions page, enter your e-mail address, and then click on the ICANN Policy Update. Issues of the Policy Update are also posted here for your information and reference.
Key Activities
Below you will find links to important areas of Internet policy development currently being addressed by the ICANN community’s bottom-up, consensus based, policymaking structure.
Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs):
- IDNs Information Area
- IDN TLDs - GNSO
- Final Report IDNC WG on Fast Track Process for IDN ccTLDs
New gTLDs Policy Information – GNSO
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy – GNSO
Registration Abuse Policies - GNSO
Registrar Agreement Amendments and Registrants Rights – GNSO, ALAC
Global Addressing Policies - ASO
DNSSEC Participation Survey Results - ccNSO
Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery - GNSO
Internationalized Registration Data - SSAC
Geographic Regions - All
Policy Staff
Members of the ICANN Policy Staff are listed below. To reach the ICANN policy staff, please write to policy-staff@icann.org. We welcome your questions and comments.
- Nick Ashton-Hart - Director for At-Large (Switzerland)
- Bart Boswinkel - Senior Policy Advisor, ccNSO (Netherlands)
- Ken Bour, Policy Contractor (USA)
- Glen de Saint Gery - GNSO Secretariat (France)
- Liz Gasster - Senior Policy Counselor (USA)
- Gisella Gruber-White, Administrative Contractor (Scotland)
- Julie Hedlund, Director of SSAC Support (USA)
- Robert Hoggarth - Senior Policy Director (USA)
- Marika Konings - Policy Director (Belgium)
- Matthias Langenegger – At-Large Coordination Officer (Switzerland)
- Denise Michel - Vice President, Policy Development (USA)
- Margie Milam - Senior Policy Counselor (USA)
- Kristina Nordstrom, Administrative Contractor (Poland)
- Scott Pinzon, Director of Policy Communications/Information Services (USA)
- Dave Piscitello – Senior Security Technologist (USA)
- Gabriella Schittek - ccNSO Secretariat (Poland)
- Steve Sheng, Senior Technical Analyst (USA)
- Heidi Ullrich - Regional Affairs Manager At-Large (USA)
- Marilyn Vernon – Executive Assistant (USA)