Conducted workshops on Internationalised Domain Name implementation, the World Summit on Information Society and New TLDs.

ICANN, recently announced that over 900 delegates from 55 countries gathered in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, to participate in ICANN's 23rd International Public Meeting which was held from 11-15th July.

ICANN conducted a series of workshops on Internationalised Domain Name (IDN) implementation, the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), and New TLDs. The meeting also saw the completion of a contract between mTLD Top Level Domain, Ltd., and ICANN, formalizing the creation of the .Mobi domain for the mobile community. mTLD Top Level Domain, Ltd. was formed by member companies including Hutchison 3, Nokia, Ericsson, Microsoft, Vodafone and few others with the aim of creating a registry service to the .mobi domain.

The week's meeting culminated in the ICANN's Board of Directors public voting and approval of a resolution to accept the recommendations of the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) report on domain name hijacking and encouragement of interested parties, to consider developing a set of Best Common Practices for Domain Name Protection, adoption of the Board Procedure of Review of Global Addressing Policies. A board direction to the General Counsel for complete revisions of the Conflicts of Interests Policy by August 2005 and adoption of the ICANN Budget for the Fiscal Year 2005-2006 were some of the other issues covered. 

The Board also resolved to designate the December 2005 meeting in Vancouver, Canada, as the Annual Meeting for ICANN.