June 24, 2014

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)'s 50th meeting is currently taking place in London from 22 to 26 June 2014 and is gathering high-level government officials from more than 70 countries, as well as representatives from more than 150 ICANN At-Large Structures from around the world.

Participants will take part in regular ICANN sessions and special meetings with nearly 250 sessions on topics as varied as the universal acceptance of top-level domains, IPv6 address deployment and outreach into underserved regions.

Dr. Imad Hoballah, TRA acting chairman and CEO and a member of the LINC Board - the newly formed Lebanon Internet Center- is actively participating and speaking in this event. Dr. Imad shared the TRA vision and said, "The multi-stakeholder approach draws its strength from the ability to bring together diverse views, and align them to a common goal of a global, interoperable Internet."

ICANN’s president Fadi Chehadé acknowledged this announcement by saying that it is, "(…) a testament to the world's growing commitment to an inclusive multi-stakeholder Internet governance model, as is the remarkably high participation from so many people from every region of the world."

ICANN's 50th meeting will continue through the week with sessions on ICANN's global accountability and consideration of the U.S. government's proposal to transition of the stewardship of the Internet's technical functions to global multi-stakeholder model.