ICANN 14


Dates:	28 - 31 October 2002
Location:	Shanghai, China
Host:	China
Website:	[1]
Historical Significance
This was the first ever ICANN Event held in China

ICANN 14

The ICANN 14 Meetings took place in Shanghai, China. The event was to last for the duration of five days, although there were several pre meeting activities available to attend on the day before the event actually commenced. All Public Forum meetings throughout the event were free to attend, by any person that was interested in the Agenda, although pre-registration was recommended due to a high demand in the seats available.

Topics that were to be discussed throughout these meetings had included the Wait – Listing service, International Domain Names and also the final approval of the LACINC, was presented. A meeting was also held to discuss the transfer of TLD Domain Names.

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Developments[edit | edit source]

One of the major talking points of this ICANN event was the ICANN Reform. The discussion was taken to new levels during the public forum, and also the ICANN board meeting, which had taken place during this event. It was also during this event that the new ICANN reform was announced in the form of the Heathrow declaration.

The Heathrow declaration was a report which was put together, which would explain in detail the new proposals for the ICANN reform and also the reasons as to why the reform had been scheduled. Although the ICANN board had mentioned, that ICANN has carried out all tasks to the best of their ability's in recent events, there was always a room for improvement.

The Full Heathrow declaration can be found trough visiting the link below.

The Heathrow Report