ICANN 18

Dates:	27-31 October, 2003
Location:	Carthage
Host:	Tunisia
Venue:	Carthage Palace Hotel
Website:	ICANN 18
Historical Significance
ICANN 18 was the first event to be held in Tunisia

ICANN 18 took place in Carthage, Tunisia, and was to be the first ICANN event held in this part of the world. The event lasted for five days and was seen as a very successful event to the organizers.

Key developments

Several Topics were discussed throughout the Event, which had taken the form of many different meetings. Some of the meetings that took place included information on the ICANN website redesign, a governmental advisory committee meeting and also a meeting on all Top level Domains, to discuss any problems in any of these areas.

All people interested, were invited to attend the meetings, although pre-registration was advised to ensure the space was available to attend. A new election of ICANN officers was also scheduled to take place in this event, and did so in the final board meeting of ICANN 18.

ICANN Board

• Paul Twomey: President/CEO
• Vint Cerf: Chair
• Alejandro Pisanty: Vice-chair
• Richard Thwaites
• Robert Blokzijl
• Ivan Moura Campos
• Lyman Chapin
• Mouhamet Diop
• Francisco A. Jesus Silva
• Hagen Hultzsch
• Michael D. Palage
• Tricia Drakes
• Thomas Niles
• Veni Markovski
• Hualin Qian
• Njeri Rionge

Term ending

• Masanobu Katoh

Videos

There are several videos that were recorded from this event, some of the sessions which were recorded are as follows:

• ICANN Public Forum
• ICANN Board Meeting
• Whois Forum
• GNSO Meeting
• ICANN Press Conference

To watch or download any of the above files please follow the link provided - ICANN 18 Video Footage

References

The ICANN Board Meeting Minutes

ICANN Board Organizational Meeting Captioning

Public Forum Captioning

Whois Workshop Captioning

GNSO Council Meeting

Press Conference

Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers Constituency

RegistryPro Request to Offer Second Level Registrations

gTLD Registrar Domain-Name Deletion Policy

Proposed Revisions to .info Registry Agreement to Implement Redemption Grace Period

Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).