"townhall meeting" on Tuesday 15 March in SF

[Robin Gross]

http://thepublicvoice.org/townhall2011/



Emerging Issues for the Online Community
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM (Reception); 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (Panel)
CBS Interactive Studios
235 2nd Street
San Francisco, California (Map)

Held in conjunction with the
ICANN 40 Silicon Valley Meeting

Sponsors
ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee


Non-Commercial Users Constituency


North American Regional At-Large Organization


The Public Voice Coalition

About the Conference

Topics to be Discussed
The role of the Internet in Egypt and Elsewhere
Secretary of State Clinton's Internet Freedom Agenda
Proposals to Expand the Number of Internet Domains
The IPv4 to IPv6 Transition
ICANN and the Role of Governments
Speakers

John Markoff, New York Times (Moderator)
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD, ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee Chair
Whitfield Diffie*, ICANN Vice President of Information Security & Cryptography
Avri Doria, ICANN Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group Chair
Robin Gross, ICANN Non-Commercial Users Constituency Former Chair
Declan McCullagh, CNET News Chief Political Correspondent
Barbara Van Schewick*, Stanford Law School
Paul Vixie, Internet Systems Consortium

* Waiting Confirmation.
Resources

Reuters: Egypt, a Timeline
AOL: Mubarak Driven From Egyptian Presidency
CNN: Internet Access Returns in Egypt
The Economist: Reaching for the Kill Switch
Facebook Officials Keep Quiet on Its Role in Revolts
New York Times: State Department to Announce Internet Freedom Policy
ABC News: Clinton to Promote 'Freedom to Connect' to the Internet
U.S. Department of State: Internet Rights and Wrongs (Remarks of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 15 February 2011)
Business Week: Clinton to Support Facebook Freedom, Fight Censorship
Politico: Clinton Backs U.S. 'Right to Connect'
Reuters: Tweet Like An Egyptian - Hillary Clinton Tries it Out
National Journal: ICANN's Proposal to Add New Domains Comes Under Fire
Wall Street Journal: Web Domains Could Expand Broadly Under New Plan
Washington Post: Obama Administration Joins Critics of U.S. Nonprofit Group that Oversees Internet
CBS News: Handing Control of the Internet to Governments - Bad Idea
CNET News: To Avert Internet Crisis, the IPv6 Scramble Begins
eWeek: IPv4 Address Depletion Adds Momentum to IPv6 Transition
PC Mag: IPv4 to IPv6 IP Address Transition Becoming Critical
Yahoo!: Businesses Need to Prepare for the IPv6 Transition
CNET News: IPv6 Reality Starts Dawning on ISPs
PC World: Government Role in ICANN Increases
Yahoo!: U.S. Proposal Raises Questions about Control of Web Addresses
CNET News: U.S. Seeks Veto Power Over New Domains
CNET News: No Support for U.S. Domain Name Veto
The Atlantic: When the Internet Nearly Fractured and How it Could Happen Again
Contact
Amie Stepanovich
Electronic Privacy Information Center
+1 202 483 1140 x120
stepanovich at epic.org

Related Events

NCUC at ICANN: Internet Governance and the Global Public Interest. 11 March 2011, 8:30 AM. Westin St. Francis Hotel, Union Square, San Francisco, California. For More Information: http://www.amiando.com/ncucaticann.html.
Publicity

AOL News: Who's Your Stalker: Facebook Scam Makes a New Appearance (Beau Brendler)



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