ICANN Newsletter | Week ending 17 April 2015
News from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Announcements This Week
Update to BCG Study - Country Clusters Analysis Now Available
16 April 2015 | Which Wheels to Grease? Reducing Friction in the Internet Economy is an update to the 2014 report Greasing the Wheels of the Internet Economy by the Boston Consulting Group commissioned by ICANN.
WEBINAR: Cross Community Working Group (CWG) On IANA Naming Related Functions: Briefing on 2nd Draft Proposal for Public Comment
16 April 2015 | Following the request of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the U.S Department of Commerce, for ICANN to "convene a multistakeholder process to develop a plan to transition the U.S. government stewardship role" with regard to the IANA Functions and related root zone management, a Cross Community Working Group (CWG-Stewardship) was formed with the purpose of developing a consolidated transition proposal for the elements of the IANA Functions relating to domain names.
ICG Publishes Update to Process Timeline
13 April 2015 | The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) today announced that it has published an update to the group's Process Timeline.
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21-25 June 2015: 53rd International Public ICANN Meeting – Buenos Aires
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