ICANN 02
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| Dates: | 25-27 May, 1999 |
| Location: | Berlin, Germany |
| Venue: | Hotel Adlon |
| Website: | ICANN 2 SITE |
ICANN 2 was held in Berlin, Germany from between 25-27 May, 1999.
ICANN 2 was held in Berlin, between 25-27 May 1999. All meetings were stationed in the Hotel Aldon. This was only the second ICANN meeting to take place, and due to the succsess of the first one, this was due to prove even better, with yet more important topics on the agenda. The Advisory commitees for the ICANN 2 meetings were as follows.
- Governmental Advisory Commitee
- Statement of IANA TLD Delegation Practices
- Membership Advisory Committee
The Meeting (Day 1 May 25th 1999) edit
The actual meeting took place over four days, each day was subject to differnt terms and agendas. One the first day (May 25th 1999), the initail meet was restricted to just the advisory committees that were to be taking part. These committees were the Governmental advisory committee and the Membership Advisory Committee. There was also a statement from IANA TLD which talked about the delegation practises.
Throughout the morning ICANN had reserved a metting room for each of the seven self-organizing constituencies of the Domain Name Supporting Organization. All information that was talked about during these meetings cannot be found at the current time, hoeever it is hopeful that all agendas and topics, talked about will be availble to comment on through following the link.
In addition to this, the DNSO initial assembly was to be held on this day, during the afternoon. the meeting commneced at around 1:30 pm and had seen the introduction of webcasting services, to ensure that people not being able to attend the meetings in person, were still able to take part in the discussion. The meeting gave participants in the various DNSO constiuency group meetings, the opportunity to report on their respective morning meetings, and also gave all DNSO General Assembly participants the opportunity to discuss the DNSO structure, aswell as possible next steps in the DNSO process.
The DNSO general assembly meeting was webcast, which included the use of realtime Audio and Video feeds. This allowed for realtime feedback and participation for persons not able to attend.
Day 2 (May 26th 1999) ICANN Open Meeting edit
The ICANN Board of Directors held a day-long public meeting in Berlin at the Hotel Adlon. The meeting required no preregistration for the participants, and was open to all persons interested in attending the meeting. For those people that were unable to attend in person,a remote participation service was set up for the meeting, this was made possible via the Internet. The meetings agenda included a discussion of the following topics.
Proposals for ICANN Supporting Organizations:
• Preliminary recommendations of the ICANN Membership Advisory Committee
• Proposals for Domain Name Supporting Organization Constituency Groups
• The World Intellectual Property Organization's "Final Report of the WIPO Internet Domain Name Process"
• Preliminary recommendations of the ICANN Advisory Committee on Independent Review
• Preliminary 1999-2000 ICANN budget
All of these topics have been posted online and are availble to view and comment on through following the link [1].
The tentative agenda for the meeting was as follows: edit
• Reports from the Chair and President
• Governmental Advisory Committee report
• Root Server System Advisory Committee report
• 1999-2000 ICANN budget report
• Report on status of registrar accreditation process
• Discussion of supporting organization status
◦ Reports from DNSO constituency organizers
◦ Report from DNSO general assembly organizational meeting
◦ Discussion of any other pending SO applications
• Discussion of WIPO report items
• Discussion of ICANN Membership Structure
• Discussion of ICANN independent review policy
• Discussion of geographic diversity provisions of the ICANN bylaws
All of the Meeting was Webcast ad further information including minutes from the meeting can be found thorugh following the Link provided here.[2]