ICC i.e. International Cricket Council was known as some ICC since founded but what the meaning of "I" at that time?

Question

The Council currently known as the International Cricket Council, or ICC, has been known as the ICC since it was founded in 1909 at Lord's in the UK but the "I" stood for something else: what was that?

Answer 1

Imperial
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.