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The ICANN conference begins in Wellington today.
What is ICANN? ICANN is an internationally organised, public benefit non-profit responsible for coordinating Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. For more information please visit: www.icann.org.
It’s great for Wellington that the conference is here. Due to the interest in Internet Domain Management there is a lot of influential people from all around the world here.
I caught up with Jonathan Zuck for dinner last night. I met Jonathan 9 years when I was on the Microsoft Regional Director program. He is one of the well known characters in the industry. Jonathan really impressed me when I first started travelling for business. I was completely green and he was so polished and seemed to know everyone. It’s exciting to have him and his team all the way here and have actually developed over those years into a peer. The IT world really can be quite small.
Vint Cerf, now at Google, is also here. Vint was in Wellington for the launch of CafeNet a few years ago. We’re a long way from the rest of the world but there is no doubt that Wellington has profile on the global internet radar.
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