Current Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN)
Documents and Responses

Interim ICANN Board Members

ICANN's list of interim board members, with brief biographies and links compiled by BCIS.

ICANN Elects Board and Appoints Interim President,ICANN Press Release, October 26, 1998

ICANN Articles of Incorporation, September 30, 1998

Letter to the Internet Community, ICANN Chairman Esther Dyson, November 6, 1998

ICANN Submission to NTIA, Version 6

• Transmittal Letter to NTIA, November 6, 1998
• ICANN Bylaws, November 6, 1998

Boston Working Group Letter to NTIA, November 9, 1998

Ellen Rony, Comparison of Bylaws Proposals for a New Internet Corporation, revised Nov. 11, 1998

Notes From Conference Call Between ICANN Board Members, BWG, and Open-RSC, October 31, 1998

Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Berkman Center Fellow and now Senior Assistant to the President and CEO of ICANN, took these notes on a conference call with participants from ICANN, BWG and Open-RSC.

Department of Commerce Agreement with Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), October 7, 1998

Provides for transition of operation of root server and NSI recognition of NewCo.

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Draft on Procedures for IETF Appointments to the Protocol Supporting Organization

Prior Proposals to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and Responses

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Proposal to NTIA

Also known as Version 5, these are the documents upon which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN) Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws are based.

• Transmittal Letter, October 2, 1998
• Articles of Incorporation, October 2, 1998
• Bylaws, October 2, 1998

NTIA Letter to Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at The University of Southern California (USC), October 20, 1998

The NTIA response to the IANA proposal of October 2.

Boston Working Group (BWG) Proposal to NTIA

BWG is a ten person group which met in Boston on September 19, 1998, to critique and review the IANA proposal. BWG claims to build upon the IFWP consensus points and to represent "a real consensus of the Internet Community as arrived at through a broad and open process."

• Summary, September 28, 1998
• Articles of Incorporation, September 28, 1998
• Bylaws, September 28, 1998

Open Root Server Confederation (Open-RSC), Inc. Proposal to NTIA

Open-RSC is a Delaware non-profit. Open-RSC also claims to build upon the IFWP consensus points and to represent "a broad consensus of Internet stakeholders, private and public."

• Summary, October 8, 1998
• Articles of Incorporation, October 8, 1998
• Bylaws, October 8, 1998

Ronda Hauben Proposal to NTIA, October 2, 1998

Ronda Hauben, an attendee of the IFWP meetings, proposes an international public research project or institute.

Information Network Engineering Group (INEG), Inc. Proposal to NTIA, October 5, 1998

The White Paper

Management of Internet Names and Addresses, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), June 5, 1998

The White Paper outlining the United States Department of Commerce policy.

International Forum on the White Paper

BCIS summary of the consensus reached over the four IFWP meetings.

Comments Submitted in Advance of November 14, 1998, Meeting

Prepared by BCIS.

Compiled by BCIS.

The list of registered participants for the November 14, 1998, meeting as of 6:00 PM, November 11.

For additional information, please contact:  

Ben Edelman, Alexander Macgillivray, and Wendy Seltzer 
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School