Venue
Agenda
ARRIVAL DAY: September 9, Tuesday
Transfer from airport, check-in 19.00-23.00 Welcome reception (OroNero restaurant)
DAY 1: September 10, Wednesday
08:00-09:00 Registration of participants, welcome coffee 09:00-10:30 Session 1. Opening session
- Faig Farmanov, .AZ
- Andrey Kolesnikov, ccTLD .RU/.РФ
- Marina Nikerova, TCI
- Axel Pawlik, RIPE NCC
- Elena Voronina, MSK-IX
- Michael Yakushev, ICANN
10:30-12:30 Session 2. New gTLD: first results
Several hundred new gTLDs are already operational, and their domain names are available to users around the world. Representatives of registries and the world’s leading registrars will speak on the New gTLD Program’s first results.
Moderator: Andrey Vorobyev, RU-CENTER
12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-16:00 Session 3. Cooperation of registries and registrars
Support and promotion of top-level domains require coordinated efforts on the part of registries and registrars. Representatives of registries will speak on the most successful cases and forms of cooperation.
Moderator: Olga Alexandrova-Myasina, ccTLD .RU/.РФ (download .PDF, 0.4 Mb)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break 16:30-18:30 Session 4. Registrar business and new models of interaction with users
As new top-level domains emerge, registrars are forced to reconsider their marketing strategies. Registrars’ representatives will talk about promoting new domains, measures to maintain demand for traditional zones, and finding the right balance in the new market conditions.
Moderator: Mikhail Anisimov, ccTLD .RU/.РФ
20:30-23:00 Gala-Dinner. ART Garden restaurant
DAY 2: September 11, Thursday
10:00-10:30 Welcome coffee 10:30-12:30 Session 5. Legal aspects of global Internet development Legal regulation of the Internet depends on many factors including national laws, international legal practice, and established procedures of court and out-of-court settlements. The section will discuss issues of regulating various aspects of the global network.
Moderator: Katrina Sataki , .LV
- Joke Braeken, EURid (download .PDF, 0.5 Mb)
- Sergey Kopylov, ccTLD .RU/.РФ (download .PDF, 0.5 Mb)
- Maria Malysheva, TCI (download .PDF, 0.3 Mb)
- Daiva Tamulioniene, .LT (download .PDF, 2.4 Mb)
- Michael Yakushev, ccTLD .RU/.РФ (download .PDF, 0.5 Mb)
- Zaur Zeinalov, Independent IT-expert (download .PDF, 2.0 Mb)
12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-16:00 Session 6. Security and DNS
More and more incidents threatening Internet security happen every year. Network security experts will give a talk on the kinds of attacks the Domain Name System has to face and on the measures that are taken to prevent them.
Moderator: Mikhail Anisimov, ccTLD .RU/.РФ
16:00-16:30 Coffee break 16:30-17:30 Session 7. IDN variants
Moderator: Michael Yakushev, ICANNHuge success of the IDN domain names unveiled a new problem – IDN variants. Non-latin alphabets that domain names are written on contains similar symbols which may lead to addressing failure. Internet community representatives will discuss the problem and try to find the way to solve them.
- Sarmad Hussain, ICANN (download .PDF, 0.9 Mb)
- Yuriy Kargapolov, UANIC