ICANN 04
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| Dates: | 1st - 4th November 1999 |
| Location: | California |
| Venue: | Sheraton Gateway Hotel near the Los Angeles Airport in Los Angeles, California |
| Website: | [1] |
| Historical Significance | |
| ICANN 4 was the first event to be held in Californaia | |
ICANN 4 was held in the Shearton Gateway hotel located in Los Angeles California. There were to be several meetings planned for the event, and all meetings were determined to have been a succsess. Meetings that were held included the egular DNSO meetings, an informal AT-Large membership forum, an ICANN Public forum and a ICANN Board Meeting.
ICANN had also made arrangements with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society to provide the option, of remote participation diring the course of the event. This addition to the event had made it possible for the public to activly comment on the open meetings as they were in progress.
Meeting edit
This ICANN meeting was schedualed to last for four days, and was to consist of several meetings lasting the course of each day. Day one had mainly consisted of Mettings between the DNSO and had consisted of meetings that talked about issues such as the global awareness and outreach. There was also a meeting on this day, between the DNSO registrar constituancy which was to talk aobut the funding issues, ICANN faced at this time.
Day two was to bring an ADHOC open meeting and also a discussion throughout the Govermental advisory committee. The GAC primary role, in its involvement towards ICANN is to provide guidence on Issues of Public Policy. A GAC Public open forum was also arranged for later on in this day. At the end of day two there was a DNSO working group, which was held to talk about Buisness plans and normal working procedures.
Day three of ICANN 4 consisted of an all day public forum, in which members of the public could talk about, and raise awareness to any issues or concerns they have about the use of Top level domains and also ICANN Procedures.On the Final day of the event, there was a continuation of the previous public forum, which was well discussed throughout the closing meeting of the day, the ICANN board Meeting.
Developments edit
During the final board meeting of IICANN 4 there was to be a review of the ADHOC charter design and there current membership. The metting had covered aspects of the ADHOC group and had determined that the ADHOC charter be revised. The Following revisions to the charter had been made.
- The ad hoc group should identify the key technology, commercial and economic drivers that will affect addressing and numbering in the Internet
- The ad hoc group shall focus on the future demands and impacts these new technologies will have on IP address space and its administration
- The ad hoc group shall clearly identify technologies and evolution that can be implemented by layering them on top of IPv4/IPv6 and whether technology, rather than merely policy
In additon to the new charter, there was also a new list of members propesed by ICANN. The new list of members that was to be proposed was as follows:
The following list of participants is proposed.
Representatives chosen by each of the Regional Internet Registries
Representative(s) chosen by the Internet Architecture Board
Representatives chosen by ISP Trade Associations
Representatives chosen by Industry (3GPP, Bluetooth, IMT2000)
Representatives chosen by Telecommunications operators
Representatives chosen by the ICANN Board
Historical Notes edit
During this meeting there were several new board members, that were to become a part of ICANN, New members to the board included:
- Esther Dyson
- Jean-Francois Abramatic
- Amadeu Abril i Abril
- Rob Blokzijl
- Vint Cerf
- Jonathan Cohen
- Philip Davidson
- Ken Fockler
- Alejandro Pisanty
- Pindar Wong