The CZ.NIC Association to Organize an Internet and Internet Technology Conference

On Tuesday 20 May there is a conference scheduled to take place in Meet Factory in Prague Smíchov titled Internet a technologie 08 (Internet and Technology 08)

Prague, 28 April 2008 – On Tuesday 20 May there is a conference scheduled to take place in Meet Factory in Prague Smíchov titled Internet a technologie 08 (Internet and Technology 08). This meeting of Czech and foreign experts is organized by CZ.NIC, the administrator of the .CZ domain registry. Speeches and discussions will focus on current topics from the world of the Internet, such as diacritics in domain names (IDN), the IPv6 protocol, or a new system for securing domain registries (DNSSEC). Presentations in the conclusion of the conference will include a speech of Jiří Peterka, independent consultant and publicist, Irena Wintrová from the Mediaresearch agency, or Ondřej Filip, managing director of CZ.NIC.

“I am personally looking forward to the speech of one of the top Czech Internet experts, Jiří Peterka. I believe that his assessment of the Czech Internet history and estimate of the future development of the Czech Internet will bring many inspiring ideas. I will also make sure not to miss the presentation of my Polish colleague Krzysztof Olesik as he will introduce results of the IDN implementation in the Polish domains. Diacritics in domain names represent a topic I consider very current in relation to the Czech Internet.” informed Ondřej Filip, Managing Director of the CZ.NIC association.

The conference will be divided into three separate blocks: Domains, Internet Resources, and Zeitgeist. The objective of the first block is to provide explain issues of IDN and DNSSEC, which will be taken care of by Martin Peterka and Ondřej Surý from CZ.NIC as well as Krzysztof Olesik, representative of the administrator of the PL national domain.

The Internet Resources block will focus primarily on IPv6. Presentations have been prepared for this topics by experts such as Pavel Satrapa, head of the Department of Information Technologies at the Technical University in Liberec, or Lubomír Pinkava, technical director of Casablanca INT.

The last block, Zeitgeist will map the existing status and latest trends in the Internet, both on the Czech and global level. This block will be started with the aforementioned speech of Jiří Peterka. There will be space for less technology-related topics as well. The social and demographic segmentation of the Czech Internet population will be presented by Irena Wintrová while Pavel Lupač from the Centre of Global Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University will provide visitors with information on the digital divide in the Czech Republic.

Those who are interested in the Internet a technologie 08 conference can register on the website at www.nic.cz/it08/. This is where information on all presentations and speakers is published and where a registration form can be found. The maximum number of conference participants is 150. The admission is 200 CZK.