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The Middle East Strategy (MES) December 13, 2013

The Middle East Strategy (MES) December 13, 2013. Fahd A. Batayneh Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator, Middle East ICANN. What is ICANN?. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Headquartered in Los Angeles with hub offices in Istanbul and Singapore

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The Middle East Strategy (MES) December 13, 2013

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  1. The Middle East Strategy (MES)December 13, 2013 Fahd A. Batayneh Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator, Middle East ICANN

  2. What is ICANN? Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Headquartered in Los Angeles with hub offices in Istanbul and Singapore • Engagement centers in Beijing, Brussels, Geneva, Montevideo, and Washington DC Three annual meetings with no restrictions on attendance Online presence at http://www.icann.org/

  3. What Does ICANN Do? Coordinates the names and numbers identifiers of the Internet; i.e. Domain Names and IP addresses Provides Technical Operations via the IANA functions • Administrating some responsibilities of the DNS root servers • Allocation of Internet Numbering Policy development for Internet Names and Numbers in a Bottom-Up, Consensus Driven, Multi-Stakeholder model

  4. Current Projects/Activities at ICANN New Generic Top Level Domains (New gTLDs) • 100s of names to be introduced into the root Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) • Top Level Domains in native languages Capacity Building Initiatives Regional Strategies Promoting DNSSec and IPv6 deployment Deployment of secondary root-server instances

  5. What is ICANN doing for the ME Region? Middle East Strategy Working Group (MESWG) • Formed in late 2012 under ICANN’s Coordination • Covers the 22 Arab states, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan • An ad-hoc working group consisting of 21 experts from 11 countries of the region • A 3-year strategy Arab DNS Forum

  6. Strategic Goals for ICANN’s Engagement Foster two-way engagement between ICANN and the broader Internet community in the region; Build strong and competitive domain name industry in the region; Promote multi-stakeholder Internet governance mechanisms in the region

  7. Strategic Areas of Work Working group has defined three strategic areas to work on: • DNS Security and Stability • Domain Name Industry • Internet Governance Ecosystem More at https://community.icann.org/display/MES/Middle+East+Working+Group

  8. What is the MESWG Up To? Task Force on Arabic Internationalized Domain Names (TF-AIDN) • Formed in October and announced during the AIGF-II • 20 experts varying in their expertise (DNS, Linguistics, Unicode…) • The proceedings of the task force can be followed at https://community.icann.org/display/MES/TF-AIDN+Work+Space • Still open for newcomers to join on-board

  9. … cont. (What is the MESWG Up To?) Task Force on Capacity Building Activities (TF-CBA) • Call open until December 21 • Wiki page at https://community.icann.org/display/MES/TF-CBA+Wiki+Space • The window for joining will always remain open to new experts “Train-the-Trainer” model • Work in progress

  10. ICANN Learn http://learn.icann.org/

  11. Questions? Thank you fahd.batayneh@icann.org http://www.icann.org/

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