The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) met on 11
and 12 November 2001, in Marina del Rey. The attending GAC Members,
which included representatives from national governments, distinct
economies as recognised in international fora and multinational
governmental and treaty organisations had useful discussions relating
to the Internet.
Security and Stability of the Internet
The GAC recognizes that the events of September 11,
were not only a serious attack on the values of democracy, but also
impacted vital international communication infrastructure. The GAC
welcomes ICANN’s initiative of devoting this meeting to Internet
security matters. Accordingly, the GAC spent a considerable portion of
their meeting discussing these issues and will work with ICANN to
develop further strategies to ensure security and stability of the
Internet naming and addressing system.
IPv6
The GAC welcomes the update received from the ICANN
Board of Directors which recognized the importance of the ICANN’s
roles in IPv6 deployment e.g. fair assignment policy of IPv6 address
space, the mapping of names and IPv6 addresses in the DNS zone file
and stable operation of zone file exchange over IPv6-based network.
The GAC strongly encourages ICANN to provide further
updates to GAC and the community on the urgent issues of IPv6
deployment status, including the migration issues from IPv4 to IPv6.
The GAC strongly supports the efforts of ICANN and related groups in
smooth and safe deployment of IPv6.
At Large Membership
The GAC welcomed the presentations it received on
the At Large issue and will consider it further at its next meeting.
The GAC also discussed other issues including the
status of the reservation of country names in .INFO, Final Report of
the Second WIPO Process, Internationalized domain names and the
evaluation of new gTLDs. In addition, open sessions were conducted
with the ICANN CEO/President and Board Members, and the ccTLD
Constituency. The GAC alsoalso gratefully received a presentation from
the US National Academy of Sciences about their study on Internet
searching and DNS technologies.
The GAC notes its thanks to the Government of the
United States of America and the sponsors for hosting this meeting.
The next face-to-face meeting of the GAC will be
held in March 2001 in Accra to coincide with ICANN’s next round of
meetings.
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