This past meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), ICANN67, was intended to be held in person in Cancun, Mexico, but was actually the first meeting to be held entirely online and virtually. It was a well-managed affair with fewer sessions than the in-person meetings and less opportunity for the community to convene and meet as individuals.  The last-minute change from an in-person to a virtual meeting impacted ICANN’s ability to provide translation services for the full set of UN-supported languages, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

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