Event Announcement - June 15 - ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee Workshop

[Robert Guerra]

I'm one of the co-organizers of this event. If you are interested,
please do get in touch !

In the meantime, I'll see if I can get those participating to come to
the evening session on the 14th as well

regards

Robert

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TITLE
The How and Why of Global Internet Operations and Policy: Options for
Canadian Participation

DATE
Thursday, June 15, 2006

VENUE
Room 728, Claude T. Bissell Building, University of Toronto Faculty of
Information Sciences, 140 St George St, Toronto, ON, Canada

CONTACT
Jacob.M...@icann.org

LINKS
http://icannalac.org/
http://www.icann.org/new.html

CONTEXT
The global Internet now has more than one billion users worldwide. More
than
21 million Canadians, 67.9% of the population, regularly connect to
this
network of networks.

As the number of users increases, civil society, consumer associations,
businesses, and academics are all becoming more aware of the critical
infrastructure and processes that keep the Internet running smoothly.

The Internet is unique in that the policies that govern its core
structures
are still decided in an open fashion, in keeping with the spirit with
which
the network was originally built. Groups and individuals from all walks
of
life are encouraged to participate in the construction of global
internet
policy.

This means that there is an important opportunity for Canadian
participation.

Hosted by the Internet Corporation for assigned Names and Numbers
At-Large
Advisory Committee, this one day workshop will provide a user friendly
briefing on the what, why and how of Internet policy making.

AGENDA

0830 : Coffee and Registration

0900: Welcoming Remarks - Andrew Clement, Professor of Information
Studies,
University of Toronto

0915: Introduction to Domain Names and Internet Addressing - John
Levine,
Author, Internet for Dummies

0945: Introduction to ICANN and Current Issues - Jacob Malthouse,
Liaison,
Global Partnerships, ICANN

Question and Answer

1030: Coffee

1100 : The ICANN Experience

Luc Faubert, President, Quebec Internet Society
Robert Guerra, Board Member, Privaterra
John Levine, Author, Internet for Dummies
Neil Schwartzmann, Chair, Board of Directors, CAUCE Canada

Question and Answer

1230 : Lunch

1400 : Open Discussion

1600 : Recapitulation

1615 : End

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this is very short open notice for TorCommunity. If I can't make it
Could someone table the question on the issue between ICANN and CIRA ??

http://www.cira.ca/news-releases/171.html

[Robert Guerra]

it goes without saying that the open letter CIRA issued to ICANN will
be discussed at the meeting. In fact, staff from CIRA will be there
too.

Hope you and/or others can make the event.

regards

Robert

[Robert Guerra]

REMINDER

The How and Why of Global Internet Operations and Policy: Options for
Canadian Participation

Hosted by the Internet Corporation for assigned Names and Numbers

At-Large
Advisory Committee, this one day workshop will provide a user friendly

forum
on the what, why and hows of Internet policy making.

DATE - Thursday, June 15, 2006