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The Méridien Montparnasse towers will host ICANN's 32nd international meeting in Paris, for a shortened week, from Monday June 23 to Thursday June 26, 2008. Photo SVG.

ICANN has just put up the agenda for the Paris meeting. An agenda with several changes to the standard ICANN meeting format.

The first is a shortened meeting week. As I'd written on this blog a few days ago, Paris will end with a Board meeting on the Thursday instead of the traditional Friday morning. Cost issues are being put forward as an explanation for the change.

The Paris week will start on Sunday June 22 with a small number of closed meetings. For most participants therefore, main proceedings kick off on Monday with the early morning Welcome Ceremony.

Regular ICANN followers will be pleased to see all the current hot topics on the agenda, including new gTLDs, IDNs, WHOIS and IPV6. In an effort to increase the business community's involvement, a new "class" of work sessions dubbed "Business Access Agenda" is also being introduced for Paris.