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ccTLD ICANN Meetings in Carthage

ccTLD ICANN Meetings in Carthage, Tunisia, 26-30 October 2003

• Venue: http://www.icanncarthage.tn/

  Carthage Palace Hotel in Gammarth

  Gammarth Heights
  Gammarth, TUNIS
  TUNISIA
  tel. +216 71 910-111
  fax. +216 71 775-140
  E-Mail: carthagepalace@gnet.tn
  Web: http://www.carthagepalace.com.tn/

• ICANN Schedule: http://www.icann.org/carthage/

• ICANN Meetings General Program: http://www.icanncarthage.tn/en/general_program.htm

• ICANN Carthage Welcome Ceremony, Thursday 30 October, 09:00 - 10:45: http://www.icanncarthage.tn/en/welcome_ceremony.htm

• Sponsors of Carthage ccTLD Meetings and Name Server training:
  New net
  Afilias
  VeriSign

  For sponsorship opportunities please contact the ccTLD Secretariat cctld-sec@wwtld.org

ccTLD Schedule version 5, final, 22 Oct

ccTLD Meetings' documents: 20031026.Carthage-documents.html

ccTLD Meeting

Dates: 26, 27 and 28 October, 2003 (Sunday - Monday - Tuesday)
Location: Carthage Palace Hotel
Room: Carthage 3

Detailed Schedule:

Day 1: 26 October 2003

Chairs: Yann Kwok and Pierre Ouedraogo

• 09:00 - 12:30 Plenary 1

  • Opening and welcome from the Hosts

    A formal invitation to the ICANN meeting, from Prof Faryel Mouria-Beji, President and CEO of Tunisian Internet Agency Carthage-invitation-ICANN.pdf.

  • Volunteers for Carthage Communique

    Session Leader: Paul Kane

  • ccTLDs and Governments
    • - WSIS, a view from APTLD, Peter Dengate Thrush
    • - WSIS, a view from CENTR, Tim Mertens

    Session Leader: Peter Dengate Thrush

  • Article IX ICANN Bylaws Revisited, Stephan Welzel

• 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch [Sponsorship Sought]

• 14:00 - 18:00 Plenary 2

  Session Leader: Elisabeth Porteneuve

  • IDN Update
    • Presentations by Dr Young Eum Lee and AINC Member
    • Presentation from IDNConnect 20031026.IDNConnect-PaulHoffman.pdf

    Session Leader: Willie Black

  • Data Privacy
    • gNSO Whois Steering Group Workshop 29 October, Bruce Tonkin and SG Members

    Important: The ccTLD meeting on Sunday adjourns until Monday afternoon. The ccTLDs present in Carthage are invited to observe AFTLD's first GA on Monday morning.

  • Sunday Evening

    October musical evenings at the Acropolium in Carthage,
    Stefan ARNOLD, piano (Austrian)

Day 2: 27 October 2003

Chair: Pierre Ouedraogo

• 14:00 - 18:00 Plenary 3

  Session Leader: Yann Kwok

  • Report on AFTLD GA decisions
  • Presentations from African registries: .TN, .KE, .MR (Sid Ahmed Ould Fadel), .SN (Alex Corentin), .ZA
  • Presentation on Afnic's College International, by Sid Ahmed Ould Fadel (representing Ahmedou Ould Haouba, University of Nouakchott)

• Monday Evening

  Social Event: ccTLD dinner
  A sign-up sheet, providing the name of the restaurant and the time will be available and circulated during the meeting.

  October musical evenings at the Acropolium in Carthage
  Two pianists: Jean - Noël REMICHE and Pascal THIBAUX (Belgian)

Day 3: 28 October 2003

Chair: Pierre Ouedraogo

• 09:00 - 12:30 Plenary 4

  Session Leader: Elisabeth Porteneuve

  • IANA 2.0, invited speaker Paul Twomey
  • IANA: Recent ISO decisions by Willie Black
    • ISO reaffirms free-of-charge use of its country, currency and language codes http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/pressreleases/2003/Ref871.html
    • Re-use of ISO3166-1 elements, "CS" case: re-assigning former Czechoslovakia's code to Serbia and Montenegro. IAB comment on stability of ISO 3166 and other infrastructure standards:
      http://www.iab.org/documents/correspondance/2003-09-25-iso-cs-code.html
      http://www.iab.org/documents/correspondance/2003-09-25-icann-cs-code.html
    • ISO 3166/MA website and background:
      http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/
      http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/04background-on-iso-3166/

    Session Leader: Hilde Thunem

  • Presentation on Wildcards, Geoff Sisson, Nominet UK and John Klensin, IETF Liaison to ICANN

    Session Leader: Paul Kane

  • VoIP and ENUM, presentations by Hiro Hotta (JPRS) and Paul Kane (ICB plc)

• 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch sponsored by New Net

• 14:00 - 18:00 Plenary 5
  • ccNSO Open meeting
    Hosted by the ccNSO Launching Group

  Session Leader: Peter Dengate Thrush

  • Report on ccTLD Secretariat after ICANN Rio, by Elisabeth Porteneuve
  • ccTLD Secretariat strategy, by Peter Dengate Thrush

  Session Leader: Sabine Dolderer

  • ASO/RIR Update, by Axel Pawlik from RIPE

  Session Leader: Pierre Ouedraogo

  • Approving the ccTLD Communique

• Tuesday Evening

  Social Event: ICANN Carthage reception
  "Cocktail dînatoire" at the Hotel Renaissance with a local folklore group

ccTLD Name Server Training Workshop


Dates: 29 - 30 October, 2003 (Wednesday - Thursday)
Location: Carthage Palace Hotel
Room: Carthage 10
Details: see: http://www.aftld.org/carthage_nst.html
Trainers: Bill Manning (USA), Adiel Akplogan (Togo and RIPE NCC), Geoff Sisson (Nominet, UK)

• Wednesday Evening

  Social Event: ICANN Carthage reception
  Evening after dinner at the Phénix in Carthage in the « caïdale tent" with an oriental flavour.

• Thursday Evening

  Social Event: ICANN Carthage reception
  Dinner at the Acropolium in Carthage with women playing traditional music, followed by a traditional costume fashion show.

AFTLD GA


Date: 27 October, 2003, Monday, Morning Only
Location: Carthage Palace Hotel
Room: Carthage 5
Details: see: http://www.aftld.org/ga1.html