ICRIER hosted a webinar on the upcoming ICANN71, the annual meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which helps co-ordinate the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions that are key technical services critical to the continued operations of the Internet’s underlying address book, the Domain Name System (DNS). The discussion agenda included the pre-meeting brie
ngs and expectations from the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), updates from the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), updates from the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO), updates from the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), which constitutes the voice of governments and intergovernmental organisations in ICANN’s multi-stakeholder structure and updates from the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC). The lead speakers were Samiran Gupta, India Head, ICANN, Anil Kumar Jain, CEO, National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), representative from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY), Satish Babu, Chair, Asia-Paci
c Regional At-Large Organisation (APRALO), Amrita Choudhury, Director, CCAOI & Member of Multistakeholder, Advisory Group (MAG), Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Gangesh Varma, Consultant, ICRIER, and Isha Suri, Research Associate, ICRIER.

10th June 2021, 4PM onwards

Place : Online Event