[npoc-voice] ICANN Announcements - 18 June 2012

[Eduardo Monge <eduardo.monge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear NPOC Colleagues:

For your information


Recent ICANN Announcements
Next CEO to be Announced at Prague News 
Conference<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-18jun12-en.htm>

18 June 2012
Board Chairman Dr. Stephen Crocker will introduce the next President and Chief 
Executive Officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers 
(ICANN) at a news conference on Friday, 22 June in Prague, Czech Republic.  The 
live webcast will be accessible from http://icann.org.
ICANN Relocates Offices in Brussels, Los 
Angeles<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-18jun12-en.htm>

18 June 2012
ICANN staff in Brussels, Belgium, and Los Angeles, California, took a break 
from unpacking moving boxes to share a virtual toast with colleagues in Silicon 
Valley, California, and Washington D.C.
Call for Volunteers: Developing the Process for Root IDN Table Creation and 
Maintenance<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-18jun12-en.htm>

18 June 2012

ICANN is seeking volunteers to work on advancing IDN capabilities in the DNS. 
The project 2.1 "Root IDN Table Process" part of the IDN Variant TLD Program, 
is designed to develop, in consultation with the community, the process to 
define:

 *   allowed code points,
 *   corresponding variant code points, and
 *   related allowed states for IDN Variant TLDs.
Regards,

Eduardo Monge
NPOC Communications Committee Chair