| year |
Nontechnical events |
technical events |
consequential meetings |
key figures |
CEO & Chair of the Board
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| 1999 |
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Shared Registry System goes into effect |
ICANN 1 |
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Michael Roberts & Esther Dyson
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DNSO is created as is the "[Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency," the only non-business interest group in the DNSO |
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ICANN 1 |
DNSO Directors: Amadeu Abril i Abril (Spain), Jonathan Cohen (Canada), Alejandro Pisanty (Mexico), NCDNHC: Milton Mueller, Kathy Kleiman |
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ICANN Bylaws include establishment of ASO, PSO, DNSO |
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ICANN 1 |
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ASO is created, indicating the beginning of global policymaking about IP address delegation |
APNIC, ARIN, and RIPE NCC join ASO, sign MoU |
ICANN 3 |
ASO Directors: Rob Blokzijl (Netherlands), Ken Fockler (Canada), Sang-Hyon Kyong (South Korea) |
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ICANN Board adopts UDRP |
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ICANN 3 |
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RSSAC is created |
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ICANN 1 |
Bill Manning, Paul Vixie, Gerry Sneeringer, James Fielding, Maurizio Binello, Doug Engebretson, Piet Barber, David Conrad, Mark Kosters, Lars-Johan Liman, Ray Plzak, Akira Kato, Daniel Karrenberg |
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GAC is created and meets |
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ICANN 2 |
Paul Twomey |
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the Registrar Accreditation Policy is adopted by the ICANN Board |
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ICANN 1 |
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PSO is created |
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ICANN 2 |
PSO Directors: Helmut Schink (Germany), Vint Cerf (USA), Phil Davidson (U.K.) |
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| 2000 |
IANA function contract signed between NTIA and ICANN |
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Mike Roberts, Louis Touton, Joyce Reynolds, Suzanne Woolf, Teresa Reefe, Karen Rose |
Michael Roberts & Esther Dyson/Vint Cerf
|
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At-Large Membership elects five directors for the ICANN Board of Directors, one for each geographic region |
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ICANN 6 |
At-Large Directors: Karl Auerbach (USA), Ivan Moura Campos (Brazil), Frank Fitzsimmons (USA), Masanobu Katoh (Japan), Hans Kraaijenbrink (Netherlands), Andy Mueller-Maguhn (Germany), Jun Murai (Japan), Nii Quaynor (Ghana), Linda Wilson (USA) |
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First Round of New gTLD Expansion begins |
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ICANN 5 |
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| 2001 |
the birth of the Evolution & Reform Committee |
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ICANN 9 |
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Michael Roberts/Stuart Lynn & Vint Cerf
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