ICANN 16

Dates:	March 23-27 2003
Location:	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Host:	Brazil
Venue:	Sofitel, Rio de Janeiro
Website:	ICANN 16

ICANN 16 was held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in March 2003. It was the first ICANN meeting to be held in Brazil. All meetings were free to attend for any interested person, land like previous ICANN events, a webcasting and Remote participation service was available for persons, who were unable to make the event.

The Meetings commenced on Sunday 23rd March, with various managerial meetings, and was closed on Thursday 27th March with the ICANN board meeting. Topics that were in the agenda for these meetings had included Internationalized Domain Names, the schedule of meetings for 2004 and the GNSO recommendations on Transfers.

Media

There are many videos which are available to download from this ICANN event. Some of the meetings which there is video footage of are as follows:

• Public Forum
• GNSO Meeting
• ICANN Press Conference
• ICANN Board Meeting

To download any of the Video footage from ICANN 16 please follow the link provided. ICANN 16 Meetings

References

Country-Code Names Supporting Organization

ICANN Preliminary Budget for 2003-2004

Inter-Registrar Transfers of Domain-Name Registrations

Whois Accuracy and Bulk Access

Criteria to Be Used in the Selection of New Sponsored TLDs

Report on Compliance by Sponsored gTLDs with the Registration Requirements of Their Charters

Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).