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

NTIA Announcement edit

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

-- apologizes for ICANN precense in Asia a year ago. now a year later have a local hub and 14 employees based in Asia. ICANN committment is going to the world. -- 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

Sunday, 23 March 2014:

  • GAC Plenary
  • Newcomer Welcome Session
  • GNSO Working Session

Monday, 24 March 2014:

Tuesday, 25 March 2014:

Wednesday, 26 March 2014:

  • GAC Communiqué overview and drafting
  • NomCom Public and Closed meetings
  • ccNSO Members meeting
  • NTAG Session

Thursday, 27 March 2014:

  • SSAC Public meeting
  • ICANN Public Forum
  • ICANN Board Public meeting
  • Wrap-up Cocktail Reception[1]

Sponsors edit

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

Video Interviews edit

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

  1. 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
  2. NTIA Announces Intent to Transition Key Internet Domain Name Functions, NTIA.doc.gov Retrieved 21 May 2014
  3. Wrap-Up: ICANN 49 Singapore, CircleID Retrieved 21 May 2014
  4. Special Updates from ICANN Meeting in Singapore, CircleID Retrieved 06 May 2014