ICANN Resolutions

The Board adopts the “ICANN Delegation of Authority Guidelines” to provide clear guidance and clarification of roles between the ICANN Board and the ICANN CEO/Management (“Guidelines”).

The Board expresses its deep appreciation for the tireless efforts of the global multistakeholder community; and its deep appreciation to the US Department of Commerce, for standing by the long-standing commitment to end the IANA Functions contract, and for its dedication, and tireless efforts as a partner with ICANN and the community to achieving this historic goal.

The Board elects Elise Gerich as the President of PTI.

The Board approved of the .TEL Registry Agreement after finding that ICANN conducted a review of Telnic’s recent performance under the current agreement and found that Telnic substantially met its contractual requirements.

The Board recognizes Bruno Lanvin for his term of service, and the Board wishes him well in his future endeavors within the ICANN community and beyond.

The Board elects Steve Crocker as Chairman of the Board.

The Board appoints Chris Disspain (Chair), Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Cherine Chalaby, Steve Crocker, Markus Kummer, Akinori Maemura, and Kaveh Ranjbar (Liaison) to the Board Working Group on Registration Directory Services

The Board appoints to the RSSAC the following representatives from the D-, E-, G-, and H-root server operators: Tripti Sinha, Kevin Jones, Kevin Wright, and Howard Kash, respectively, through 31 December 2019.

The Board approves the Measures for Letter/Letter Two-Character ASCII Labels to Avoid Confusion with Corresponding Country Codes, authorizing ICANN to issue a blanket authorization that allows new gTLD registry operators who implement the required measures to release all reserved letter/letter two-character ASCII labels not otherwise reserved pursuant to Specification 5, Section 6 of the New gTLD Registry Agreement.

The Board recognizes Kuo-Wei Wu for his term of service, and the Board wishes him well in his future endeavors within the ICANN community and beyond.

The Board approves ICANN entering into the Assignment Agreement between ICANN and the IETF Trust to assign the IANA IPR, and into the requisite License Agreements for the purpose of using the IANA IPR in the performance of each of the IANA functions.

The Board approves the Bylaws as the initial Bylaws for PTI, appoints Akram Atallah, David Conrad, Lise Fuhr, and Jonathan Robinson as Initial Directors of PTI, and appoints Elise Gerich as the President of PTI.

The Board directs the Board Governance Committee to re-evaluate Dot Registry's Reconsideration Requests 14-30, 14-32 and 14-33 in light of the Panel majority's Final Declaration in the Dot Registry IRP and the issues it identified with respect to the BGC's actions in evaluating these Reconsideration Requests.

The Board approves the Services Agreement and commits ICANN to providing the necessary services and resources to PTI in order for it to perform the IANA functions.

The Board approves the proposed Amendment to extend the term of the .COM Registry Agreement to 30 November 2024 to coincide with the term of the Root Zone Maintainer Services Agreement (RZMA) between ICANN and Verisign.

The Board authorizes the President and CEO, or his designee(s), to engage in and facilitate all necessary contracting and disbursements for the host Convention Centre for the October 2018 ICANN Public Meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

ICANN Board approves the proposed amendments to ICANN's Articles of Incorporation, which shall be deemed effective upon the expiration the IANA Functions Contract between ICANN and NTIA.

The Board Approves the minutes of 25 & 27 June 2016

In order to attract and retain high caliber staff the ICANN Board granted the President and CEO the discretion to increase the FY17 base salary and provide a competitive compensation package for ICANN staff.