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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.

Issues to Watch:	Meetings to attend Today-Wednesday 21 October 2015
Accountability Compliance Domain Privacy IANA Transition New gTLD Program Search for the Next CEO	GAC Meetings Room: Liffey A Board & GAC Meeting 08:30-10:00 Wednesday Morning Sessions 10:00-12:30 Joint Meetings Room: Liffey H1 ICANN Board & the RSSAC 10:00-11:00 ICANN Board & Non-Commercial Stakeholders 11:15-12:15 ICANN Board & Technical Experts Group 15:30-17:00 Compliance Contractual Compliance Updates and Q&A Session Room: Liffey B 08:30-09:45	ALAC Meetings Room: Wicklow H1 ALAC APRALO Monthly 08:00-09:00 ALAC Capacity Building WG 09:00-10:00 EURALO General Assembly Part 1 10:30-12:30 EURALO General Assembly Part 2 15:45-17:30 Joint AFRALO-AfrICANN Meeting 14:00-15:30 IANA Transition & ICANN Accountability IANA Stewardship Transition Implementation Room: Wicklow H2 15:30-16:30 Domain Privacy GNSO Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues PDP WGM Room: Liffey MR2 8:00-9:00	IDNs IDN Program Update Room: Wicklow MR5 10:30-11:45 IDN Root Zone LGR Workshop Room: Wicklow MR4 13:00-14:15 Cyrillic Generation Panel Meeting Room: Wicklow MR4 14:30-15:45 Human Rights NCSG-CCWP ICANNs Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights Room: Wicklow MR5 9:00-10:15 NCSG-CCWP ICANN's Corporate & Social Responsibility to Respect Human Rights Room: Wicklow H2 17:00-18:00

ICANN Primer

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.

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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Governmental Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN's policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues (ICANN Bylaws).

Root Server System Advisory Committee. Advises the ICANN community and Board on matters relating to the operation, administration, security, and integrity of the Internet's Root Server System (ICANN Bylaws).

At-Large Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group.

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).

Policy Development Process

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Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group. Represents the full range of non-commercial entities of the Internet (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the At-Large Advisory Committee.