[ispcp] From the gNSO Secretariat: ICANN's Response to the NOI on Midterm Review

["Mark McFadden - ISPCP Secretariat" <mcfadden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-09jan08.htm

ICANN Releases Its Submission to the Midterm Review of the Joint Project
Agreement

 

ICANN Board believes that JPA Responsibilities are being met

9 January 2008

 

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: 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.

 

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.

 

"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."

 

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.

 

The submission also states that the completion of the JPA will clearly
signal that JPA and the MOUs before it have been successful.

 

"This success should be commemorated," Dengate Thrush stated in the Board?s
submission.

 

ICANN?s Board is encouraging the Internet Community to take part in the
Midterm Review before the 15 February 2008 deadline for submissions.

 

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.

 

ICANN?s entire submission to the Midterm Review [PDF,101K] including a table
outlining the organization?s achievements on the 10 responsibilities of the
JPA [PDF, 469K], is publicly available at http://icann.org.

 

A link to the Department of Commerce?s Midterm Review is available online at
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/frnotices/2007/ICANN_JPA_110207.html.

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Glen de Saint Géry

GNSO Secretariat - ICANN

gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org

http://gnso.icann.org

 

 

Mark McFadden

Secretariat, ISPCP Constituency

mcfadden@xxxxxxxxxx