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Tentative Agreements
among ICANN, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and Network Solutions,
Inc.
(Posted September 28, 1999)
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On September 28, 1999, the Department of
Commerce (DoC), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN), and Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) announced
that they had tentatively reached a series of agreements to resolve
outstanding differences among the three parties.
The ICANN Board actively encourages the
global Internet community to review the proposed agreements and
to submit comments via the ICANN Public Comment Forum. The public
comment period will be thirty days; comments should be submitted
by October 29, 1999. The agreements will go before the ICANN
Board for final consideration at its Los Angeles meeting on November
4, 1999.
The proposed agreements have been posted
on the ICANN web site as follows:
- The NSI/ICANN Registry
Agreement
- The Registrar Accreditation
Agreement (between ICANN and registrars)
- The Registrar License
and Agreement (between NSI and
registrars)
- Amendment 19 to the
DoC/NSI Cooperative Agreement
- Amendments to the DoC/ICANN
Memorandum of Understanding
ICANN has posted a fact sheet on the proposed
agreements:
- Fact sheet on DoC/ICANN/NSI
Agreements (posted September 28,
1999)
ICANN issued a press release on the tentative
agreements as well:
- Press release (September 28, 1999)
ICANN PUBLIC COMMENT FORUM
[ICANN's new web-based, threaded
Public Comment Forum interface will appear in this space later
today.]
Page updated 28-September-1999
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