(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 20, 2011 ) Dakar, Senegal -- Rod Beckstrom, ICANNs President and Chief Executive Officer will join Board Chair Dr. Stephen Crocker at a news conference following the opening ceremony of ICANNs 42nd public meeting in Dakar, Senegal.
Among other issues, the ICANN leaders will discuss the implementation the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) program. Under that program applications will be accepted for new gTLDs beginning on January 12, 2012. The application window will remain open until April 12.
It will mark one of the biggest changes ever to the Internets Domain Name System.
In addition to taking journalists questions on gTLDs at the Monday news conference, the two ICANN leaders will also answer questions on other subjects, ranging from IPv6 implementation to DNSSEC adoption.
Journalists who will not be present at the Dakar meeting are invited to participate in the news conference via a live video web stream or via telephone conferencing.
A recording of the news conference will be posted to the press page of the ICANN web site (http://www.icann.org/en/press/) as soon after the event as possible.
Here are the details:
WHAT: News Conference
WHO: Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO and Dr. Stephen Crocker, Chair of Board of Directors.
WHEN: Monday, 24 October 2011, 1430-1530 Dakar (14300-1530 UTC).
WHERE: Room - BC 12, Le Meridien Hotel, Pointe des Almadies BP 8181, Dakar, Sngal.
OFF-SITE ACCESS: Journalists from around the world can participate in the news conference via remote access.
A live video webcast may be accessed at http://icann.adobeconnect.com/dkr40-press.
Telephone access will be available by dialing an international access number that can be obtained from this list http://www.adigo.com/icann. The toll free access number in the U.S. is +1.800.550.6865. Once you have reached the conferencing center, dial 25594.
LANGUAGE: The news conference will be in English, but there will be simultaneous French translation available in the room.
INFORMATION ON gTLD PROGRAM: http://newgtlds.icann.org/announcements-and-media/video
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Brad White
ICANN Director of Global Media Affairs
Washington, D.C
Tel. +1 (202) 570 7118
brad.white@icann.org
Andrew Robertson
Edelman Public Relations
London, U.K.
Tel. + 44 (7811) 341 945
andrew.Robertson@edelman.com
About ICANN: ICANNs mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internets unique identifiers. ICANN doesnt control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesnt deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internets naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more information please visit: http://www.icann.org.
Brad White
+1 (202) 570 7118
brad.white@icann.org
Source: EmailWire.Com
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