April 10, 2005 - (HOSTSEARCH.COM) - ICANN announced the results of their 22nd International Public Meeting today. ICANN conducted a series of important workshops on DNS Security, Domain Name Hijacking, the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), and coordinated further discussions on Whois Policy development and Internationalised Domain Name (IDN) implementation.
The week's meeting culminated in the ICANN's Board of Directors public voting and approval of AfriNIC as the fifth Regional Internet Registry, dedicated to the allocation of numbering resources for Africa and the formal adoption of a global policy on IANA Allocation of IPv4 Blocks to Regional Internet Registries developed by the Address Supporting Organisation (ASO) and the Number Resource Organisation (NRO).
The group also agreed to the designation of two new sponsored Top-Level Domains (sTLDs) .JOBS and .TRAVEL as well as changes to ICANN's bylaws in support of the new Address Supporting Organisation (ASO) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and the number of GNSO council representatives.
