http://thepublicvoice.org/townhall2011/ Emerging Issues for the Online Community Tuesday, 15 March 2011 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM (Reception); 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (Panel) CBS Interactive Studios 235 2nd Street San Francisco, California (Map) Held in conjunction with the ICANN 40 Silicon Valley Meeting Sponsors ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee Non-Commercial Users Constituency North American Regional At-Large Organization The Public Voice Coalition About the Conference Topics to be Discussed The role of the Internet in Egypt and Elsewhere Secretary of State Clinton's Internet Freedom Agenda Proposals to Expand the Number of Internet Domains The IPv4 to IPv6 Transition ICANN and the Role of Governments Speakers John Markoff, New York Times (Moderator) Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD, ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee Chair Whitfield Diffie*, ICANN Vice President of Information Security & Cryptography Avri Doria, ICANN Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group Chair Robin Gross, ICANN Non-Commercial Users Constituency Former Chair Declan McCullagh, CNET News Chief Political Correspondent Barbara Van Schewick*, Stanford Law School Paul Vixie, Internet Systems Consortium * Waiting Confirmation. Resources Reuters: Egypt, a Timeline AOL: Mubarak Driven From Egyptian Presidency CNN: Internet Access Returns in Egypt The Economist: Reaching for the Kill Switch Facebook Officials Keep Quiet on Its Role in Revolts New York Times: State Department to Announce Internet Freedom Policy ABC News: Clinton to Promote 'Freedom to Connect' to the Internet U.S. Department of State: Internet Rights and Wrongs (Remarks of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 15 February 2011) Business Week: Clinton to Support Facebook Freedom, Fight Censorship Politico: Clinton Backs U.S. 'Right to Connect' Reuters: Tweet Like An Egyptian - Hillary Clinton Tries it Out National Journal: ICANN's Proposal to Add New Domains Comes Under Fire Wall Street Journal: Web Domains Could Expand Broadly Under New Plan Washington Post: Obama Administration Joins Critics of U.S. Nonprofit Group that Oversees Internet CBS News: Handing Control of the Internet to Governments - Bad Idea CNET News: To Avert Internet Crisis, the IPv6 Scramble Begins eWeek: IPv4 Address Depletion Adds Momentum to IPv6 Transition PC Mag: IPv4 to IPv6 IP Address Transition Becoming Critical Yahoo!: Businesses Need to Prepare for the IPv6 Transition CNET News: IPv6 Reality Starts Dawning on ISPs PC World: Government Role in ICANN Increases Yahoo!: U.S. Proposal Raises Questions about Control of Web Addresses CNET News: U.S. Seeks Veto Power Over New Domains CNET News: No Support for U.S. Domain Name Veto The Atlantic: When the Internet Nearly Fractured and How it Could Happen Again Contact Amie Stepanovich Electronic Privacy Information Center +1 202 483 1140 x120 [log in to unmask] Related Events NCUC@ICANN: Internet Governance and the Global Public Interest. 11 March 2011, 8:30 AM. Westin St. Francis Hotel, Union Square, San Francisco, California. For More Information: http://www.amiando.com/ncucaticann.html. Publicity AOL News: Who's Your Stalker: Facebook Scam Makes a New Appearance (Beau Brendler)