Janis Karklins and Rod Beckstrom at UNESCO Paris (10 Dec 09)
Jānis Kārkliņš, Ambassador of Latvia to France and Permanent Representative to UNESCO, talks to Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO of ICANN. The video was made at the reception of the UNESCO in Paris on 10 December 2009, when ICANN signed a cooperation agreement with UNESCO to assist with the process of expanding the adoption of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). IDNs are non-Latin based characters that can now be used on a limited initial basis in the top-level domain portion of an Internet address name, which is that portion of the name that is to the right of the dot, such as .com. More info: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-11dec09-en.htm