According to a report in Moroccoworldnews.com, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decided to postpone its 52nd meeting scheduled to take place in Marrakech from February 8-12.
“ICANN is an international entity that coordinates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions, which are key technical services critical to the continued operations of the Internet’s underlying address book, the Domain Name System (DNS).”
The article is citing another publication, Le360, that ICANN made the decision to postpone the meeting because of “the spread of the Ebola virus and after the Moroccan government stressed the need to avoid organizing major gatherings of people coming from different countries.”
“The decision to postpone the event by the ICANN staff was needed after the Moroccan government has itself stressed the risk of major global gatherings because of the epidemic,” a source from ICANN was quoted by Le360 as saying.
I do not see any announcement on ICANN’s site or in its news feed.
ICANN has moved meetings in the past, the last being one scheduled for Egypt which was switched to Singapore due to conflict in the middle east.
It would seem very usual for ICANN to postpone the meeting to other dates.
We will keep on eye on ICANN for an official announcement.