ICANN through the Decades

ICANN in the 1990s

year	Nontechnical events	technical events	consequential meetings	key figures	CEO & Chair of the Board	Key Moments	Sources
1997	The International Ad Hoc Committee dissolves, producing a gTLD MoU as its final report, with 226 signatories						IAHC History, ISOC
	Framework for Global Electronic Commerce directs the Secretary of Commerce to privatize the management of the DNS to increase competition and facilitate international participation in its management.			Ira Magaziner
		original DNSSEC released
	GoDaddy is founded			Bob Parsons
1998		the DOC publishes the White Paper, aka 63 Fed. Reg. 31741 aka the Statement of Policy, on the privatization of the technical management of the DNS	-		Michael Roberts & Esther Dyson		ICANN Transition Agreements
		The Green Paper, formally titled "A Proposal to Improve the Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses," was released by the NTIA in the Federal Register
	MoU between US DoC and ICANN, completing the transition to Private (non-government sector)		Joe Sims, J. Beckwith Burr
	NSF ends direct role in Internet
	ICANN is incorporated			George Conrades, Gregory Crew, Frank Fitzsimmons, Hans Kraaijenbrink, Eugenio Triana, Linda S. Wilson, Geraldine Capdeboscq, Jun Murai, Joe Sims, Michael Weinberg, Zita Wenzel, Michael Roberts			Board Minutes, 10/25/1998
	first ICANN Board Meeting
1999		Shared Registry System goes into effect			Michael Roberts & Esther Dyson	ICANN testbed window
	DNSO is created as is the "[Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency," the only non-business interest group in the DNSO			DNSO Directors: Amadeu Abril i Abril (Spain), Jonathan Cohen (Canada), Alejandro Pisanty (Mexico), NCDNHC: Milton Mueller, Kathy Kleiman
	ICANN Bylaws include establishment of ASO, PSO, DNSO					Beginning of Ad Hoc Era
	ASO is created, indicating the beginning of global policymaking about IP address delegation	APNIC, ARIN, and RIPE NCC join ASO, sign MoU		ASO Directors: Rob Blokzijl (Netherlands), Ken Fockler (Canada), Sang-Hyon Kyong (South Korea)
	UDRP is approved
	RSSAC is created			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			RSSAC Minneapolis meeting
	GAC is created
	the Statement of Registrar Accreditation Policy is adopted					Vertical Separation Era
	PSO is created			PSO Directors: Helmut Schink (Germany), Vint Cerf (USA), Phil Davidson (U.K.)