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  • Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:40:37 -0400
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      <font size="+1"><i>17 September 2003</i></font> </td>
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      <h2 align="center">ICANN and U.S. Department of Commerce Announce New Three-Year 
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      <p align="left">Marina del Rey, California USA (17 September 2003) - The 
        Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the United 
        States Department of Commerce (DoC) today announced that they agreed to 
        extend their joint Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for three additional 
        years until September 30, 2006.</p>
      <p>&quot;This new agreement clearly indicates the DoC's recognition that 
        ICANN is the right organization to manage the Internet's naming and numbering 
        systems,&quot; noted ICANN President and CEO, Dr. Paul Twomey. &quot;We 
        look forward to working with the DoC to complete, within this term, the 
        transition toward privatization that began with the first MoU five years 
        ago. We are pleased that we were able to reach agreement with the DoC 
        on a term giving us three years to get the job done.&quot;</p>
      <p>ICANN Chairman, Vint Cerf, added, &quot;This agreement between ICANN 
        and the Department of Commerce marks a major milestone in ICANN's history 
        and the process of transition from the historical purely governmental 
        oversight of the Internet to a public/private partnership. I am very grateful 
        for the efforts of ICANN's CEO, Paul Twomey and his staff, working with 
        the Department of Commerce, to complete this critical step on behalf of 
        the ICANN and Internet communities.&quot;</p>
      <p>The MoU highlights ICANN's responsibility to ensure the stability of 
        the Internet and foster its globalization. Toward those ends, ICANN will: 
        implement an objective process for selecting new Top Level Domains; implement 
        an effective strategy for multi-lingual communications and international 
        outreach; and develop a contingency plan, consistent with the international 
        nature of the internet, to ensure continuity of operations in the event 
        of a severe disruption of operations.</p>
      <p>In November 1998, the U.S. Department of Commerce entered into the first 
        MoU with ICANN, recognizing it as the private sector, not-for-profit corporation 
        that should assume a set of technical coordination and related policy 
        development responsibilities for the Internet. Subsequently, there have 
        been three additional one-year extensions of the MoU, recognizing ICANN's 
        significant progress towards achieving the tasks necessary to transition 
        oversight of the naming and numbering system to a public/private partnership.</p>
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