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17 March 2011

Transcript: ICANN Public Forum, 17 Mar 11

Public forum opens

Peter Dengate Thrush (ICANN chair)

Presentation by hosts of next ICANN meeting in Singapore

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22 September 2011

China and Russia's 'International Code of Conduct for Information Security'

The following document was submitted to the United Nations General Assembly on 12 September 2011, one day before the opening of its official 2011 session opening.

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24 June 2011

Board and Larry Strickling transcript, Cartagena

Background: The ICANN Board had publicly announced that it intended to approve the Applicant Guidebook (the rules for new Internet extensions) at its Cartagena meeting in December 2010.

Shortly before that meeting, it received a blunt letter from United States Assistant Commerce Secretary Larry Strickling warning the Board that in the US government's view it was in no way ready to approve the Guidebook.

Mr Strickling and the Board then had a private meeting in Cartagena to talk through the letter and how to respond to it.

The transcript of that meeting was only made available after the Guidebook had been approved some six months later, and in response to a formal request under ICANN's document disclosure policy (DIDP).

The result of Strickling's letter and the subsequent meeting, transcribed below, was the creation of a 'GAC Scorecard' outlining all of the governments concerns (there were 81 of them), and a series of extraordinary meetings between governments and the ICANN Board in order to reach agreement.