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ICANN Board of Directors Workshop, 9 - 11 August, 2007
(Not designated as an Official Board Meeting)
4 October 2007
Summary
The ICANN Board of Directors met in Marina del Rey, Los Angeles from 9-11 August, and worked on the following topics:
- Review of the terms of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) between ICANN and the US Department of Commerce, and review of progress on ICANN’s responsibilities under the JPA (http://www.icann.org/general/agreements.htm):
- Security and stability of the system of unique identifiers
- Transparency
- Accountability
- TLD management
- Multi-stakeholder model
- Role of governments (GAC)
- IP addressing
- Corporate responsibility
- Corporate administrative structure and practices
- Review of objectives for 2008 on the major topics facing ICANN;
- New gTLDs process,
- Internationalized Domain Names,
- Security issues,
- DNSSEC,
- IPv4 and IPv6,
- Outreach and the Internet Governance Forum.
- Board governance issues;
- Discussion of the terms of reference for review of the Board,
- Succession and leadership planning,
- Global outreach