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NRO at the Internet Governance Forum Paul Rendek Head of External Relations and Communications Internet Governance Forum 2010 • Held in Vilnius, Lithuania, 14-17 September • Roughly 1800 attendees from 107 countries • 98 workshops • Main sessions on – Critical Internet Resources – Development – Access and Diversity – Security, – Cloud Openness and Privacy Computing Paul Rendek, 17 November 2010 2 NRO Workshops: IPv6 Around The World • IPv6 deployment and initiatives from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and South America: – go6.si – NIC.br initiative from Slovenia program in Brazil – German • government IPv6 adoption Main points: – “The business case for IPv6 is business continuity” – “Government a key pusher of technological innovation” Paul Rendek, 17 November 2010 3 NRO Workshops: Enhancing Transparency • Enhancing Transparency in Internet Governance – Speakers from business, government, civil society – Roundtable discussion of benefits of transparency and where each sector can improve • Main points: – “Visibility is just the first step; understanding is just as important” – “We still need to effectively define Internet governance” – “Law enforcement, government and industry need to Paul Rendek, 17 November 2010 4 NRO Workshops: Enhancing Transparency • Plans for further work on this subject – Follow-up events at national/regional IGF events – EuroDIG – Follow-up etc. workshop at IGF 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya Paul Rendek, 17 November 2010 5 Other NRO involvement • RIR representatives took part in workshops on: – RPKI (Internet resource certification) – Council of Europe sessions – Cross-border law enforcement issues – Applying a code of good practice on information, participation and transparency – Internet • issues in the developing world NRO representatives spoke in the main session on Critical Internet Resources about IPv6 adoption Paul Rendek, 17 November 2010 6 Some URLs • Official workshop reports – IPv6 Around The World: Surveying the Current and Future Deployment of IPv6 http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chro noformname=WSProposalsReports2010View&wspid=87 – Enhancing Transparency in Internet Governance http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chro noformname=WSProposalsReports2010View&wspid=88 Paul Rendek, 17 November 2010 7 Questions?