MDNS - ITU Agenda

8:30 – 9:30	Registration
9:30 – 9:45	Welcome and Opening Remarks Mr Roberto Blois, Deputy Secretary-General, ITU
9:45 – 10:30	Presentation: The Internet Domain Name System Mr David Lawrence, Senior Software Engineer, Nominum
10:30 – 11:00	Presentation: Briefing Paper – Overview of the Development of Multilingual Internet Names Mr Hirofumi Hotta, Japan Registry Service Co. Ltd.
11:00 – 11.30	Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00	Presentation: Policy and Co-ordination Issues Raised by Multilingual Internet Names Dr Tan Tin Wee, Vice-Chairman, Multilingual Internet Names Consortium (MINC)
12:00 – 12:30	Questions and discussion
12:30 – 14:30	Lunch break
14:30 – 15:45	Presentations and Panel Discussion: National and Regional Approaches to Multilingual Internet Names Mr Nasser Alshawaf, Policy Committee Chair, Arabic Internet Names Consortium Ms Young-Eum Lee, Committee Member, Korea Network Information Center (KRNIC), Number and Name Committee Mr Hirofumi Hotta, Japan Registry Service Co. Ltd. Mr Richard Delmas, European Commission Dr Tan Tin Wee, Advisor, Asia Pacific Network Group
15:45 – 16:15	Coffee break
16:15 – 17:30	Presentations and Panel Discussion: The Future of Multilingual Internet Names Mr Michael Aisenberg, Director of Public Policy, VeriSign, Inc. Mr Andy Duff, Director Marketing and Policy, New.net Mr James Seng, Co-Chair, IETF Internationalized Domain Names Working Group Mr Masanobu Katoh, Chair, ICANN Internationalized Domain Names Working Group Ms Lauren Gelman, Corporate Counsel, Internet Policy, RealNames Corp.
17:30	Summary of First Day and Close
17:45	Reception at the WIPO headquarters