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Internet: ICANN Meeting in Luxembourg in July the 2005
Esch-sur-Alzette (Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg), November 3rd, 2004
Next year, the Internet Society Luxembourg (ISOC) will host an ICANN meeting from 11 to July 15, 2005 in Luxembourg-city.
Close to 700 experts of the Internet will meet during one week to examine the future of the Mother of all networks, making Luxembourg the world capital of the information society.
This meeting is scheduled in the framework of the presidency of the European Union, held by the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg during the first semester of 2005.
The project was initiated by ISOC, is financed by the Luxembourg government and has the support of the Restena Foundation.
About ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. These services were originally performed under U.S. Government contract by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and other entities. ICANN now performs the IANA function.
As a private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.
ICANN is currently chaired by Doctor Vinton Cerf, well-known pioneer of the Internet.
Internet sites: http://www.icann.org
event web site: http://iicann2005.isoc.lu
Contact for this press release: Anne Deschuyteneer
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Press accreditations for the ICANN 2005 meeting: Kieran Baker
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