ITU Resources on IP-Based Networks

• Draft Report: Policy, Business, Technical and Operational Considerations for the Management of a Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) (Draft April 2008)
• Handbook on Internet Protocol (IP)-Based Networks and Related Topics and Issues, ITU, 2005 (عربي, 中文, English, Français, Español, Русский)
• Via Africa: Creating local and regional IXPs to save money and bandwidth, 2004

• The Essential Report on IP-Telephony, 2003 (عربي, English, Français, Español)

• Internet-related Decisions and Resolutions adopted at ITU 2006 Plenipotentiary Conference (Antalya, 2006)
• ITU-T Study Group 13 (Next Generation Networks)
  • OCAF Focus Group
  • IPTV Focus Group
  • IPTV-GSI

Other Resources

• Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), a non-profit organization that has worked since the late 1980s to help develop and deploy networking technology in various projects throughout Asia/Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the New Independent States
• Packet Clearing House, a non-profit research institute that supports operations and analysis in the areas of Internet traffic exchange, routing economics, and global network development
• Inveneo, a non-profit social enterprise whose mission is to get the tools of ICT to those in remote and rural communities in the developing world
• Internet Society resources
• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) resources
• Internet Governance Forum (IGF) resources
• ISP Security Support Service Resources
• NANOG Security Curriculum: ISP Security Tutorials/Presentations
• Number Resource Organization resources
• Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) manage, distribute, and register public Internet Number Resources within their respective regions. There are currently five main RIRs:
  • AfriNIC for Africa
  • APNIC for Asia and the Pacific region
  • ARIN for North America
  • LACNIC for South America and the Caribbean
  • RIPE NCCfor Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East
• HSRC Press: Mapping ICT Access in Africa, 2006
• IPv6 Forum
• IPv6 Group: Deploying IPv6 – Internet Protocol version 6 (Practical guidance)

ITU Internet Related Resolutions

• ITU Plenipotentiary Resolution 101 on Internet Protocol-based networks (Rev. Antalya, 2006)
• ITU Plenipotentiary Resolution 102 on ITU’s role with regard to international public policy issues pertaining to the Internet and the management of Internet resources, including domain names and addresses (Rev. Antalya, 2006)
• Consultation on Resolution 102 (Rev. Antalya, 2006)
• ITU Plenipotentiary Resolution 130 on Strengthening the role of ITU in building confidence and security in the use of information and communication technologies (Rev. Antalya, 2006)
• ITU Plenipotentiary Resolution 133 on the Role of administrations of Member States in the management of internationalized (multilingual) domain names (Rev. Antalya, 2006)
• ITU-T WTSA Resolution 48 on Internationalized (multilingual) domain names (Rev. Johannesburg, 2008)
• ITU-T WTSA Resolution 47 on Country code top-level domain names (Rev. Johannesburg, 2008)
• ITU-T WTSA Resolution 64 on IP address allocation and encouraging the deployment of IPv6 (Johannesburg, 2008)
• ITU-T WTSA Resolution 75 on ITU-T’s contribution in implementing the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, and the establishment of a Dedicated Group on Internet-related Public Policy Issues as an integral part of the Council Working Group on World Summit on the Information Society (Johannesburg, 2008)
• ITU website for the dedicated group on international Internet-related public policy issues established in 2008.

Related Workshops and Conferences

• 3-6 December 2008 (Hyderabad, India): 2008 Internet Governance Forum
• 24-25 November 2008 (Hammamet, Tunisia): Regional Seminar on IP Communications
• 28-30 October 2008 (Moscow, Russia): Workshop on Interactive Digital TV and NGN: Who will be the first?
• 7-9 October 2008 (Sofia, Bulgaria): ITU Regional Cybersecurity Forum for Europe and CIS
• 4-5 September 2008 (Geneva, Switzerland): ITU Workshop on IPv6
• 25-28 August 2008 (Lusaka, Zambia): ITU Regional Cybersecurity Forum for Eastern and Western Africa
• 15-18 July 2008 (Brisbane, Australia): ITU Regional Cybersecurity Forum for Asia Pacific, including a Seminar on the Economics of Cybersecurity
• 18-21 February 2008 (Doha, Qatar): ITU Regional Workshop on Frameworks for Cybersecurity and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) and Cybersecurity Forensics Workshop
• 27-29 November 2007 (Praia, Cape Verde): West Africa Workshop on Strategies for Cybersecurity and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection