ICANN 12

Dates:	10th - 14th March 2002
Location:	Accra, Ghana
Host:	Ghana
Website:	[1]
Historical Significance
This was the first ever ICANN Event held in Ghana

ICANN 12

ICANN 12 took place in Accra, Ghana. The ICANN Board had openly encouraged anybody, who was interested to come and take a seat at the meetings that were to follow over the four days, and the option was available for people who could not make it in person to the meetings, to watch and comment via the webcast and remote participation opportunities.

The event saw the Public Forums run throughout the course of the 13th March 2002 and the ICANN Board meeting on the 14th March. On the 11th March there was also a orientation workshop available for new attendees to the ICANN Meetings to attend. The Meetings that took place throughout the Event had Discussed various new subjects such as new TLD’s for Domains, and also Domain Name Deletion Procedures.

Meetings

• ICANN Board meeting.◦Approval of MinutesAt Large/Public InvolvementICANN ReformApproval of Security Committee Charter.org Reassignment.pro Registry Agreement.info Country NamesEmerging RIRsMessage from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan

◦Status of Independent Review Implementation

• ICANN Public Forum (all day). ◦President's ReportPreliminary Budget/Budget PrioritiesAt Large Study Report/Public InvolvementICANN Reform.org Reassignment.pro Registry AgreementNew TLD Evaluation Progress.info Country Names

◦Domain-Name Deletion Procedures

• General assembly of the DNSO (08:30 to 11:00) ◦Waiting list and Deletes (jointly organized by GA, NC, ICANN)

◦.org separation and ALSC (organized by GA) Special presentation: "Higher-Layer Naming Systems: Keywords and Other Non-DNS Identifiers" (11:00 to 14.00)Names Council (15:00 to 18:00)

• Governmental Advisory Committee (all day)

• Orientation workshop for new attendees (08:00 to 09:30)DNSO Constituency meetings (throughout the day) ◦ccTLD Registries Constituency Business ConstituencygTLD Registries ConstituencyISP ConstituencyNon-Commercial ConstituencyRegistrars Constituency

• Intellectual Property Constituency

• African ccTLD workshop

Refereances

2002 Announcements

Ghana ICANN meetings

Report on the board meeting

The Location of the Event

ICANN Reform

Approval of the Security Committee Charter

Draft Report of the .info Country Names Discussion Group

Reassignment of the .org TLD

Implementation of Independent Review Policy

External Links

ICANN Website