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• Date: October 18 & 19, 2015,
• Reception: October 20, 2015 @ 5:30pm
• Time: 11:30-13:00
• Location: The Convention Centre, Dublin, Ireland, ICANNWiki Booth
• Hosts: Jackie, Dustin Phillips
• Twitter Hashtag: #ICWEditathon
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• ICANN Fellows and newcomers are strongly encouraged to attend.

Related: ICANN 54 - ICANNWiki - ICANN Fellow

ICANN 54 Primer: Welcome to Dublin

Newcomers:
Room: Auditorium
Newcomer Sunday

• 9:00-16:15

How it Works Series:
Room: Liffey H2
Internet Standards Setting

• 9:30-11:00

Internet Networking

• 11:15-12:45

Domain Name Registry Protocols

• 14:00-15:30

Root Server Operations

• 15:45-17:15

ALAC Meetings
Room: Wicklow H1
At-Large Review Working Party

• 8:00-9:00

At-Large Regional Leadership Meeting

• Part 1-9:00-12:30
• Part 2-13:30-17:30

At-Large ALS Criteria and Expectations
Taskforce

• 12:30-13:30

New gTLD Program
Universal Acceptance Group Steering
Committee Workshop
Room: Liffey MR2

• 8:00-17:00

RySG Geo-TLDs
Room: Liffey B

• 12:15-16:15

IANA Transition and Accountability
ICG Face-to-Face
Room: Liffey B

• 9:00-12:00

Transition Perspectives:From an Internet
Pioneer and the US Congress
Room: Auditorium

• 16:30-18:00

GAC Meetings
Room: Liffey A
Morning Session

• 9:00-12:30

Afternoon Sessions

• 14:00-18:00

WHOIS
Whois Review Team Int'l Registration Data
Expert WG
Room: Wicklow MR3

• 14:00-15:30

ICANN 54 is shaping up to be an important meeting, with a lot of critical issues on the agenda. The ICANN Primer is a resource providing the background information needed to begin understanding the issues and participating in the future of the internet. We provide summaries of important issues with links for additional reading, information on the board and a list of acronyms with definitions.

ICANN Board

Fadi Chehadé

Steve Crocker

Bruce Tonkin

Rinalia Abdul Rahim

Cherine Chalaby

Chris Disspain

Asha Hemrajani

Wolfgang Kleinwächter

Markus Kummer

Bruno Lanvin

Erika Mann

Gonzalo Navarro

Raymond A. Plzak

George Sadowsky

|Michael Silber

Kuo-Wei Wu

Acronyms

• ICANN-Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers
• AfriNIC-The African Network Information Center
• ALAC-At-Large Advisory Committee
• APNIC-The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
• ARIN-American Registry for Internet Numbers
• ASO-Address Supporting Organization
• ccNSO-Country-Code Names Supporting Organization
• ccTLD-Country-Code Top Level Domain
• CCWG or CWG-Cross Community Working Group
• DNS-Domain Name System
• GAC-Governmental Advisory Committee
• GNSO-Generic Names Supporting Organization
• gTLD-Generic Top-Level Domain
• IANA-Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
• IDN-Internationalized Domain Names
• IETF-Internet Engineering Task Force
• IP-Internet Protocol
• IPv4-Internet Protocol version 4
• IPv6-Internet Protocol Version 6
• ISOC-Internet Society
• ISP-Internet Service Provider
• LACNIC-Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry
• NTIA-US Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration
• OSC-Operations Steering Committee
• PDP-Policy Development Process
• RIR-Regional Internet Registry
• RSEP-Registry Services Evaluation Proccess
• RSSAC-Root Server System Advisory Committee
• SSR-Security, Stability, and Resiliency
• SSAC-Security and Stability Advisory Committee
• TLD-Top Level Domain
• TLG-Technical Liaison Group
• UDRP-Uniform Dispute Resolution Process
• URS-Uniform Rapid Suspension System
• W3C-World Wide Web Consortium
• WIPO-World Intellectual Property Organization

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