ICANN 40 San Francisco Meeting - Wednesday 16 March

The focus of the day was to attend all the relevant workshops and discussion on IDNs and then branch out to have a feel of the other tracks which were being discussed.

In the IDN session, the issue of variant was discussed in detail. The challenges of the Arabic Script were shown , the Indian position on the issue was also discussed and the issues which were primarily identified are as follows

• Perso Arabic and Brahmi are being followed in India and with 450+ living languages and 22 constitution languages, India deployment of IDN will make a perfect case.
• The policy to consider homograph variants and not homophone variants has resulted in reduction of the complexity of the problem.
• There are issues of rendering the unicde in different browsers.
• The width or the space of address bar in the browser needs to be broadened to accomodate the various words which have commas and fullstops or matras on the top.

Also attended the Registrars Training Program wherein Training Program on Uniform Dispute Resolution mandatory for all registrars was announced. ICC is coordinating on this issue so that the process can be uniformly applied across countries.

The session on WHO IS primarily discussed the trust in accessing the who is data base. The question wherein there can be misuse of the WHOIS database and it has to be designed in the context of the privacy laws of the land in the overall framework of international policies and ICANN guidelines is really a job which needs more work on it.

The final session of the day which was attended was the on Number Resource Policy Development Activities whrein the key takeaways are :

• focus on resource certification implementaiton coordination (RPKI) - single RPKI trust anchor which ensures the routing tables are correct.
• RIR have ipv6 allocation policies
• Support both versions of protocol and when duone thru a single device it is called dual stack approach
• Tunnel services for customers will see an increase.
• There are lot of Ipv6 content on NRO website
• There needs to be a global policy of IPv4 allocation post exhaustion and int he context of IPv4 lready gone from IANA, an important task in hand needs to be addressed at the earliest.

The highlight of the day was the address of former President of USA, Mr. Bill Clinton addressing the gathering. He spoke primarily about how INternet is important in the context of human development and stressed that Multistakeholder approach of Internet development and consensus based policy development process needs to be maintained. Inspite of the fact that we are stumbling in it, he assured that the group is stumbling in the right direction.