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

["NameCritic" <watch-dog@inreach.com>]

What a spin. Complete his draft? LOL. By himself? Doubtful. He thought it
was complete methinks.

Lose 1.4 million and consider the meeting a success?

Great footwork.

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic

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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
>
>                             * * *
>
> Archives of the ICANN meetings have been posted in the online
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> 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
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