ICANN 49
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| Dates: | 23-27 March 2014 |
| Location: | Singapore, Singapore |
| Venue: | Raffles City Convention Centre |
| Website: | ICANN 49 Website |
| Registration: | Public List - ccNSO List |
ICANN 49 was held from March 23 to March 27, 2014 in Singapore, Singapore.[1]
ICANN 49 was the third ICANN Meeting in the organization's history to be held in Singapore. Previous meetings held in Singapore were ICANN 1 and ICANN 41.
Major Events & Topics[edit | edit source]
NTIA Announcement[edit | edit source]
In the weeks leading up to ICANN 49, NTIA released an announcement on March 14, 2014 that stated it would begin transition of key DNS functions to the global Internet stakeholder community. The announcement created a wealth of discussion within the ICANN community and the global media, and became a major topic and talking-point during ICANN 49.[2][3]
President's Opening Speech[edit | edit source]
Fade Chehade gave a speech during the Opening Ceremony of ICANN 49, as is customary. He touched on a number of subjects including ICANN globalization, ICANN activities, the NTIA announcement, Internet Governance and NETmundial, and the globalization of the IANA.
Chehade began by apologizing to stakeholders in the Asian region, as he found that ICANN did not have a presence there when he visited 1 year ago. He noted that now ICANN has an Asian hub office with 14 staff members and thus ICANN is fulfilling its commitment to globalize the organization. After discussing various ICANN activities, he spoke about the recent NTIA announcement and -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsDQo6rP8cY -- an important time to step back and take stock. What do we need to do in the phase ahead? -- take a community view as to everything that is going on at icann. create a community activities map. -- new icann website -- Because of NTIA announcement, the Board is discussing dissolving advisory groups on ICANN/IANA globalization and instead focusing attention on the IANA transition. -- NTIA announcement - launch global process of transitioning IANA to global community. Also discuss how we are going to evolve ICANN's own accountability as an organization. He applauded NTIA and US government's stewardship of IANA so far. -- Internet Governance - why is ICANN stpendng so much time on global internet government? ICANN is member of netgov ecosystem...continue on mission, but we have responsibility in the ecosystem...it should be prioritized never ahead of the core work of the mission. -- NETmundial - one of the premier forums on netgov that will appear this year. Received thousands of interested participant applicants. Received 189 submissions on proposals to improve internet gov. Netm is where we will start sharting a multistakeholder model of internet governance. It is not the time to spend too much time to discuss on icann or IANA. Look at broader net gov issues - icann and iana are but a small piece of a fast ecosystem of issues. -- ends with some history. Jon Postel - people who used to manage entire DNS on an index card. And it started with ICANN 1 in Singapore. Reminds that it has been a long road - when US decides to trust us, it is because of all the work that has happened up to this point. Starting with Jon and with everyone. Let's not miss this opportunity. He goes over the principles that the US Government set in order for the IANA transition to work.
Session Highlights[edit | edit source]
Sunday, 23 March 2014:
Monday, 24 March 2014:
- Welcome Ceremony and President's Opening
- IANA Accountability Transition
- Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance at NETmundial
- New gTLD Program Update
- Name Collision Mitigation
- ICANN 49 Gala Night
Tuesday, 25 March 2014:
- RrSG Session
- ICANN Board sessions with different stakeholder groups
- NCSG Session
- NCUC Session
- RySG Session
Wednesday, 26 March 2014:
- GAC Communiqué overview and drafting
- NomCom Public and Closed meetings
- ccNSO Members meeting
- NTAG Session
Thursday, 27 March 2014:
Sponsors[edit | edit source]
Gold: Verisign
Silver: Iron Mountain, NCC Group, PIR, Afilias, Radix, LogicBoxes, .asia, NeuStar, CentralNic, Trademark Clearinghouse, .Club Domains, Freenom, CNNIC, ARI Registry Services.
Bronze: Uniregistry, Registry.Africa[1]
Links[edit | edit source]
- ICANN 49 Official Page
- Meeting Guide (PDF, EN)
- GAC Communiqué Singapore (PDF, EN)
- ICANN 49 - Singapore Playing Card Deck
Video Interviews[edit | edit source]
ICANNWiki partnered with Dyn and CircleID to produce a video blog during ICANN 49. Ray King spoke with Simon Cousins of TLD Registry, Thomas Barrett of EnCirca, Stephanie Duchesneau of FairWinds Partners, Chris Sheridan of eNom, Monte Cahn of Right of the Dot, Daniel Greenberg of Lexsynergy, and Norbert Grey of Architelos.[4]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 ICANN Singapore, ICANN.org Retrieved 11 March 2014 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "icannsingapore" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ NTIA Announces Intent to Transition Key Internet Domain Name Functions, NTIA.doc.gov Retrieved 21 May 2014
- ↑ Wrap-Up: ICANN 49 Singapore, CircleID Retrieved 21 May 2014
- ↑ Special Updates from ICANN Meeting in Singapore, CircleID Retrieved 06 May 2014