ICANN’s 20th Anniversary Blog Collection

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ICANN’s 20th Anniversary Blog Collection

	By Ali Farshchian Founder & Editor
	October 21, 2018 Views: 5,921 Add Comment

ICANN63 in Barcelona is now underway and this year, in addition to numerous sessions during the five-day long Annual General Meeting, ICANN will also be hosting a special session to celebrate the organizations 20th anniversary. The event will be held on Thursday, October 25th, from 17:00 to 18:00 (ICANN@20 Years) commemorating some of the key moments in ICANN’s history.

In the weeks leading up to ICANN63, CircleID in collaboration with ICANN invited community members to send their thoughts reflecting on the early days of ICANN and some of the points over the last 20 years that stand out in their memory. And the response was tremendous! Thank you, everyone, for your responses and thoughtful contributions. Below you will find the collection of blogs that we have featured in past weeks. Enjoy!

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	Cheers to ICANN! by Afifa Abbas – Bangladesh Information Security and Governance Lead Engineer
	ICANN at 20: Looking Back Forward by Bonface Witaba – Kenya Trainer, Researcher, Consultant in Internet Governance and Policy
	ICANN - A Catalyst for Development by Nii Quaynor – Ghana Convener of African Network Operators Group (AfNOG)
	ICANN’s Two Decades of Evolution by Vint Cerf – United States Widely known as a “Father of the Internet,” Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet.
	ICANN’s Rocky Beginning - When Friends Were Scarce by Michael Roberts – United States ICANN’s first CEO & President
	Oral History of the Early Days of ICANN: A Perspective From Europe by Oscar M Bonastre – Spain Professor of Advanced Distributed Systems and Chair of Standards, Technical and Professional Activities, IEEE Spain Section
	A 1998 IANA Technical Seminar I Will Never Forget by Louis Touton – United States Louis Touton was ICANN’s first employee. He served as ICANN’s Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary.
	Looking Back at 20 Years of ICANN by Patrik Fältström – Sweden Fältström has been an active participant in Internet governance issues at the global level. In the late 1990’s he was a member of the gTLD Policy Oversight Committee, a process that helped form the foundation for the ICANN.
	A Look at ICANN’s Creation by Ira Magaziner – United States Magaziner’s framework paved the way to the creation of the Green Paper, which was followed by the White Paper, which called for the establishment of ICANN.

By Ali Farshchian, Founder & Editor

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