The 49th meeting of ICANN will be held in Singapore starting tomorrow March 23rd -Thursday the 27th.

http://singapore49.icann.org/en

In addition to the business at hand of new registries launching, there will be much discussion around the NTIA’s announcement to privatize the DNS.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions