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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Courier New"><span
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:navy'>The announcement below is regarding the agreement that ICANN has
with the US DoC. This agreement was signed in September 2006 for a 3-year term.
The mid-term review of the agreement will take place next March. NTIA has
initiated a process of public comments on what responsibilities ICANN has
achieved over the past 18 months and as identified in the agreement: </span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/frnotices/2007/ICANN_JPA_110207.html">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/frnotices/2007/ICANN_JPA_110207.html</a><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>. Comments are due on or before 15 Feb
2008. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:navy'>If you are interested in the topic and/or intended to provide input
to the process, please read below and let me know if you have any questions. </span></font><font
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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>Regards,<br>
-Baher</span></font><font color=navy face="Courier New"><span style='font-family:
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owner-alerts@icann.org [mailto:owner-alerts@icann.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>ICANN News Alerts<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 10, 2008
3:23 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> alerts@greenriver.icann.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [alerts] ICANN News Alert
-- ICANN Releases Its Submission to the Midterm Review of the Joint Project
Agreement</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h2 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=5 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ICANN Releases Its Submission to the
Midterm Review of the Joint Project Agreement<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ICANN Board believes that JPA
Responsibilities are being met<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>9 January 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>MARINA DEL REY, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Calif.</st1:place></st1:State></span></font></b></strong><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>: The Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers today made its formal submission to the Midterm
Review of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) between ICANN and the United States
Department of Commerce. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
submission's main point is that the conclusion of the JPA would be a further
step in the transition envisioned since ICANN was established - one of moving
the Domain Name System to private-sector co-ordination. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"Ending
the JPA will provide long-term stability and security for a model that works,"
stated Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush in the ICANN Board submission. "It
will provide confidence to all participants that the investment of time,
thought and energy for over nine years has secured an Internet coordination
body that will always be owned by all stakeholders, not managed or overseen by
any one entity." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
U.S. Government has been committed to the transition of the DNS to the private
sector since 1998. Over this time there have been seven Memorandums of
Understanding between ICANN and the USG, and 13 status reports measuring
ICANN's progress. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
submission also states that the completion of the JPA will clearly signal that
JPA and the MOUs before it have been successful. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"This
success should be commemorated," Dengate Thrush stated in the Board's
submission. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ICANN's
Board is encouraging the Internet Community to take part in the Midterm Review
before the 15 February 2008 deadline for submissions. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If
you continue to believe, in full transition of the domain name system to the
private sector, and in an Internet that is co-ordinated not controlled, now is
the time to say so and be a part of the next step in that transition. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ICANN's
entire <a
href="http://www.icann.org/correspondence/dengate-thrush-to-sene-09jan08.pdf">submission
to the Midterm Review</a> [PDF,101K] including a table outlining the
organization's achievements on the <a
href="http://www.icann.org/general/jpa-10-responsibilities-table-09jan08.pdf">10
responsibilities of the JPA</a> [PDF, 469K], is publicly available at <a
href="http://www.icann.org/">http://icann.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A
link to the Department of Commerce's Midterm Review is available online at <a
href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/frnotices/2007/ICANN_JPA_110207.html">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/frnotices/2007/ICANN_JPA_110207.html</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>About ICANN: </span></font></b></strong><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ICANN
is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique
identifiers like domain names (like .org, .museum and country codes like .uk)
and the addresses used in a variety of Internet protocols that help computers
reach each other over the Internet. Careful management of these resources is
vital to the Internet's operation, so ICANN's global stakeholders meet
regularly to develop policies that ensure the Internet's ongoing security and stability.
ICANN is an internationally organized, public benefit non-profit company. For
more information please visit: <a href="http://www.icann.org/">www.icann.org</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Jason
Keenan <br>
Media Adviser, ICANN <br>
Ph: +1 310 382 4004 <br>
E: <a href="mailto:jason.keenan@icann.org">jason.keenan@icann.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>International:
Andrew Robertson <br>
Edelman (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City>)
<br>
Ph: +44 7921 588 770 <br>
E: <a href="mailto:andrew.robertson@edelman.com">andrew.robertson@edelman.com</a>
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