Nabil Benamar

Person
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Community	ICANN Community
ICANN group	SSAC
Organization	UMI
Region	AF
Country	Morocco
Languages	Arabic *العربية English French *Français
Achievements

Nabil Benamar is a Professor of Computer Sciences. His main research topics are Future Generation Networks, Autonomous Driving, IoT, and TinyML. He is the author of several journal papers and IETF Standard documents. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the "IEEE Access" journal (IF 3.9) . He is a TPC member of highly ranked IEEE Flagship conferences (Globecom, ICC, PIMRC, WCNC, etc..) Nabil served as the chair of IEEE MenaComm'20 conference and as a member of the Organizing Committee of IEEE WCNC'2019 and IWCMC’23.

Nabil is an expert in Internet Governance and he was an ISOC Ambassador to IGF(2012 and 2013), Google panelist in the first Arab-IGF, ISOC fellow to IETF'89&92&95&99&103 and ICANN'50&54 fellow.

Among his international commitments, he is currently serving as the chair of the Task Force for Arabic Script IDNs, a team of people working on the implementation of the Arabic script in the DNS Root Zone. He is also chairing the UASG measurement WG promoting the Universal Acceptance of all valid domain names and email addresses. He was recently been elected as the vice chair of the UASG.tech.

Awards

During ICANN 55, Benamar was awarded a 'Certificate of Achievement' for his work toward improving the Internet. Mr. Benamar is a member of the Arabic Script Generation Panel, a group dedicated to making the Internet multilingual.

IETF works & participations

Co-author of two RFCs

• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8691.html

• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9365

References

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=CcSGch0AAAAJ&sortby=pubdate

Africa, according to the ICANN Geographic Regions (ICANN Geographic Regions).

Internet Engineering Task Force

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Internet Society

Internet Governance Forum

Internationalized Domain Name

Universal Acceptance Steering Group

Request For Comments. Archival series dedicated to documenting Internet technical specifications, including general contributions from the Internet research and engineering community as well as standards documents (RFC Editor Model, Version 3).