ITRealms Exclusive!
What
has been described as digital portal being built by the Non-Commercial Users
Constituency (NCUC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) in collaboration with the Florida-based
St. Thomas University Law Library.
Confirming
this to ITRealms, Director, Law Library, St.
Thomas University, Prof. Roy Balleste
said the NCUC digital portal is a partnership between St. Thomas University Law
Library and the NCUC.
This,
he said, was created to position NCUC as a globally accessible, unique,
research web portal for a wide array of documents.
“To
our knowledge, no other database exists of this kind within ICANN,” he
asserted.
Balleste
also revealed that at the moment, individual documents are accessible only by
visiting individual locations and some of the items are not publicly cataloged
for online accessibility.
But
this portal, he said, has been designed for the benefit of the individual
members.
“I
encourage you to explore the portal once it is launched, immediately after the
ICANN Buenos Aires meeting,” Roy urged, stressing that he would soon be sending
out a call for the collection of documents of any historical value to the
constituency.
Even
as policy documents will be collected directly from website, which will be in a
‘beta’ mode until the meeting in London in June 2014.
Remmy Nweke
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