Executive Summaries of Formative Documents. Published in briefing book for Press Roundtable on ICANN Issues. (July 1999)
Summaries of key documents in ICANN’s formation and early operation.
Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS Client
I briefly offered a cross-registrar WHOIS client, capable of consolidating results from multiple domain registrars — a service which I believe was the first of its kind, at the very dawn of competitive .com registrars. Service no longer available.
ICANN Public Meeting Notes and Webcast – Berlin, Germany – May 25-26, 1999
I have completed the webcast and scribe’s notes of the ICANN public meeting held in Berlin, Germany on May 25-26, 1999. Archives.
ICANN Public Meeting Notes and Webcast – Singapore – March 2-3, 1999
I have completed the webcast and scribe’s notes of the ICANN public meeting held in Singapore on March 2-3, 1999. Archives.
Webcast and Remote Comment Submission System
My Webcast and Remote Comment Submission System allowed participants in a webcast to ask questions of the group that assembled in person. This system was used in a variety of contexts in the first twelve quarterly public meetings of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). This method proved especially useful to some non-native English speakers, who reported finding written remarks more natural and less intimidating. It also allowed synchronous discussion to address more questions in less time, and it facilitated screening questions for relevance to the topic at hand.
Details in Berkman Center Meeting Tools.
ICANN Public Meeting Notes and Webcast – Cambridge, Massachusetts – November 14, 1998
I have completed the webcast and scribe’s notes of the first ICANN public meeting, held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 14, 1998. Archives.
IFWP/DNS Work-in-Progress with Larry Lessig, Andrew McLaughlin, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Jonathan Zittrain
The Berkman Center offers this site to facilitate debate around issues of consensus and dis-sensus, concerning the ongoing process of establishing a new domain name authority.
IFWP-Geneva Meeting Notes
Discussions at the International Forum on the Whitepaper in Geneva, Switzerland on July 25, 1998 led to meeting notes and minutes:
I served as scribe for Sessions A and F chronicled there, and I organized and preserved others’ notes from the discussion.
IFWP Consensus Summary and Working Drafts Comparison
IFWP Consensus Summary and Working Drafts Comparison (July – November 1998)
Analysis of community discussions in the International Forum on the Whitepaper, the process that led to the creation of ICANN.
Using Trumpet On Netcruiser Accounts
I devised a way to use Trumpet Winsock (then the best-established and most flexible way of connecting Windows computers to the Internet ) with Netcom Netcruiser (then the cheapest nationwide unlimited ISP). Method and instructions (obsolete).