[ga-icann] Re: [icann-announce] ICANN Concludes Quarterly Stockholm Meetings

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Subject: [icann-announce] ICANN Concludes Quarterly Stockholm Meetings


ICANN Concludes Quarterly Stockholm Meetings
(Some 600 participants from more than 100 countries discuss 
Internet domain names and numbers)

Stockholm, Sweden (4 June 2001) -- The Internet Corporation for 
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) concluded its quarterly meeting 
in Stockholm, receiving input from Internet users, engineers 
and professionals, and repreentatives of businesses, registries, 
and registrars from around the world.

"The meeting was a great success," stated ICANN President/CEO 
M. Stuart Lynn. "There was substantive discussion on some key 
issues. It was my first meeting as President, and it was good to 
meet so many involved participants." Lynn became President/CEO of 
ICANN following its previous meeting last March in Melbourne.

Participants attended the four-day meeting to enhance their 
understanding of various topics and voice their opinions, concerns 
and suggestions. Topics of discussion included additional top-level 
domains (TLDs), status of ccTLDs (TLDs associated with individual 
countries), status on the at-large study on ICANN, using non-
English characters used for Internet domain names, and the complex 
issue of alternate roots.

The Meeting Agenda Included:

* Orientation session for new participants; Advisory Committees; 
  DNSO Constituencies and Working Groups; Governmental Advisory 
  Committee
* DNSO Names Council and General Assembly
* ICANN Public Forum (where delegates had the opportunity to ask 
  questions, make comments, raise issues of concern)
* ICANN Board of Directors meeting (open to public observation)

Board Action Taken At This Meeting:

* Passed the budget for the next financial year starting 1 July 
  2001
* Adopted a new fee structure for Registrars
* Launched a process to evaluate the new TLDs
* The Board also informally encouraged the President to complete 
  and post his ICANN policy paper on a single authoritative root

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Archives of the ICANN meetings have been posted in the online 
meeting archive at 
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/stockholm/archive>. The 
archives include agendas, RealVideo recordings, scribe's notes, 
documents and presentations discussed, real-time questions received, 
and online discussion logs. If you're not already subscribed to 
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ICANN is a technical coordination body for the Internet. Created 
in October 1998 by a broad coalition of the Internet's business, 
technical, academic, and user communities, ICANN is assuming 
responsibility for a set of technical functions previously 
performed under U.S. government contract by IANA and other groups.

Specifically, ICANN coordinates the assignment of the following 
identifiers that must be globally unique for the Internet to 
function:

* Internet domain names
* IP address numbers
* Protocol parameter and port numbers

In addition, ICANN coordinates the stable operation of the 
Internet's root server system.

As a non-profit, private-sector corporation, ICANN is dedicated to 
preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting 
competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet 
communities; and to developing policy through private-sector, 
bottom-up, consensus-based means. ICANN welcomes the participation 
of any interested Internet user, business, or organization.

For further information contact Mary Hewitt, Director of 
Communications, at (310) 823-9358 or <press@icann.org>.


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