TNC2002 Monday 3 June 2002 Session 1B - Updates on ISOC, IETF, ICANN and EC
Chair Karel Vietsch, TERENA
The future architecture and governance of the Internet is steered by a number of worldwide organisations. The Internet Society is a professional membership society addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet. It is the organisational home for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which is the principal body engaged in the development of new Internet standard specifications. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the organisation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management and root server management. At the European level, the policies designed and implemented by the European Commission, for example in the eEurope Action Plan and in the Framework Programmes, influence the development and use of the Internet. This session will present an update on the policies and actions of these four important bodies.
1B1 Internet Society Update
Brian Carpenter, IBM Europe, Switzerland and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society
1B2 IETF Standards - what is happening, and what does it mean to me?
Harald Alvestrand, Cisco Systems, Norway
1B3 Update on ICANN
Rob Blokzijl, NIKHEF, Netherlands
1B4 EU Policies: eEurope and the 6th Framework Programme
Roman Tirler, European Commission, DG Information Society
16:00 - 17:30 Room C