Name: How It Works: Identifiers at ICANN
Start: 2026-06-08T14:45:00+0200
End: 2026-06-08T16:00:00+0200

ICANN86 has concluded, thank you for joining us!

Archived Session Materials:
Session recordings and audio archives are posted under each session. Transcripts are posted as available per session.

As a reminder, participation in ICANN, including this meeting, is governed by ICANN’s ethics policy. This policy includes the ICANN Community Participant Code of Conduct, ICANN Expected Standards of Behavior, and the ICANN Community Anti-Harassment Policy.

How It Works: Identifiers at ICANN

Monday June 8, 2026 2:45pm - 4:00pm CEST

FIBES 1 - Pabellon 3A (Community Meeting Room)

14:45 CEST (UTC+2), 8 June 2026
12:45 UTC, 8 June 2026
FIBES 1 - Pabellon 3A (Community Meeting Room)
ID# 18120

Session Details
This learning session will introduce attendees to the unique identifier ecosystem and the Domain Name System (DNS). Attendees will learn about domain names, IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses, autonomous system numbers, port numbers, and other identifier systems that ICANN helps coordinate. The session will also cover the fundamentals of why the DNS was invented, how naming works, how names resolve, and some of the new work being done on the protocol. This session will help prepare ICANN86 attendees for the policy discussions being conducted at the conference.

Session Leader: Ulrich Wisser

Session Recordings
Zoom Archive
English audio archive
Archivo de audio en español
Archive audio en français

Facilitators