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There are several key openings at ICANN this year and we highly encourage you to apply yourself or recommend someone who you feel will serve the Internet community well. Whatever your thoughts on ICANN, they are a very important organization within the Internet ecosystem and proper guidance is crucial. The best way to ensure that they help to maintain the open framework that has served the Internet so well thus far is to participate. Details are below in the press release.

ICANN and DOC help move Internet’s domain name and addressing system towards increased transparency and accountability
Washington, D.C., USA and GENEVA, Switzerland–30 September 2009–The Internet Society today applauds the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) and ICANN’s (the Internet Corporation for …

Contributed by Holly Raiche
Many of us at ISOC Australia Chapter had a very busy June with the ICANN meeting in Sydney, and ISOC events around that meeting. One of the highlights was the reception we held for Lynn St Amour …

Contributed by Joly MacFie
Members of ISOC-NY attended, and webcast, two recent events in New York City.
One was a public hearing by the City Council on Open Government Data Standards. This included some interesting sparring between Council Member Brewer and a …

We noticed an email sent to us from Bill Manning via NANOG today requesting input on DNS scaling and the impact on the root of adding IPv6 records, new TLDs (Top Level Domains) and security records and other impending changes …