International Domain Names Meeting and Press Briefing to be Held in Washington.International Groups Sponsor Open Meeting to Address ICANN's Domain Names Supporting Organization --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 1999-- Friday, January 22, 1999 George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. Press Registration: 8:30am Marvin Center - 800 21st St., NW Open forum meeting: 9am-5:30pm Continental Ballroom, 3rd Fl. Media Briefing: 5:30pm The Domain Names Supporting Organization, created by the by-laws of the newly formed Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers See ICANN. (body, networking) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - (ICANN) The non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system (ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number ), will play a significant role in proposing policies associated with the allocation of domain names. This meeting brings together key international players to discuss the challenging issues surrounding the organization's formation and attempts to forge a consensus on its structure. * Including Address by Esther Dyson, Chair, ICANN Board. Hosting Organizations: Commercial Internet Exchange (networking, body) Commercial Internet eXchange - (CIX) The CIX is a non-profit, 501(c)6, trade association coordinating Internet services. Its member organisations provide TCP/IP or OSI data internetwork services to the general public. (CIX) Council of European National Top level domain Registries The Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR) is an association of Internet country code top-level domain registries. Full CENTR membership is open to organisations, corporate bodies or individuals that operate a country code top level domain registry. (CENTR) European ISP Association (EUROISPA EUROISPA European Internet Service Provider Association ) International Chamber of Commerce (ICC ICC See: International Chamber of Commerce ) International Trademark Association (INTA) Internet Council of Registrars (CORE) Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) Policy Oversight Committee (POC (Proof Of Concept) See PoC exploit. POC - Point Of Contact ) World Information Technology and Services Alliance The World Information Technology and Services Alliance, or WITSA, is a consortium of associations from the information technology (IT) industry around the world. The group claims that it represents over 90% of the world IT market, and has a stated goal of advancing the (WITSA) The event is open to the press. Media can register by calling Tinabeth Burton at 703-284-5305 or e-mail (tburton@itaa.org) or at the door.
Agenda for Domain Names Meeting
Washington DC 1/22/99
Time Topics Speakers/Participants
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome Jon Englund (ITAA & WITSA)
Meeting Process Christiaan van der Valk (ICC)
Agenda Professor Lance Hoffman
(GWU) Mark Chinoy(Facilitator)
9:15 - 9:45 DNSO/ICANN Update Esther Dyson, Chair (ICANN)
9:45 - 11:00 Presenters: DNSO, INTA, Amadeu Abril (DNSO)
ORSC Mike Heltzer (INTA)
Intervenors: ICC, CORE, Representative (ORSC)
CENTR, NSI Christiaan van der Valk (ICC)
Identification of critical Ken Stubbs (CORE)
issues for discussion Fay Howard (CENTR)
Christiaan van der Valk (ICC)
Don Telage (NSI)
11:00 - 11:50 Discussion of Critical All
Issues
11:50 - Noon Organisation of Breakout Moderator
Groups
Noon - 1:00 Lunch, Breakout All
Discussions
1:00 - 1:15 Group Update
1:15 - 3:00 Discussion of Critical All
Issues
3:00- 3:30 Consensus Moderator
Path forward
Future work
3:30 - 5:30 Development of summary All
document & Minutes
Adjourn @ 5:30 PM
5:30 - 6:00 Press Q & A Moderator
Coordinating Organisation
Reps
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