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The current Internet Protocol addressing system (IPv4) faces depletion. To make sure the next billion consumers will be able to connect to the Internet, a transition to the next-generation address system (IPv6) is underway. The At-Large community is contributeing to policies that ensure IPv4 and IPv6 can coexist and interoperate.  

 

 

How to Join Us

If you would like to work with ICANN to help shape the Internet, keep it safe, and educate consumers, we invite you and your organization to join the At-Large community. For more information about how to get involved, please contact At-Large staff at staff@atlarge.icann.org.  

Annex 1:  Frequently Asked Questions
 

Why should our consumer group use its limited resources to work with ICANN?

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Intellectual property also forms the core of a number of issues in the consumer interest, from trademark protection and consumer confusion concerns (particularly important in the marketing and purchasing of pharmaceutical and medical products online). Freedom‐of‐expression issues also raise some fascinating questions (should the general public be prohibited from creating and purchasing a .hitler domain? Who should own the rights to .god? Or .allah?)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annex 2:  A Glossary of ICANN Acronyms and Terms

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