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<h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN
Weekly Newsletter</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>News from the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/">http://www.icann.org</a></span></strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <strong><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Week ending 11 December 2009 </span></strong></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Announcements This Week</span><o:p></o:p></h4>
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margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-11dec09-en.htm"><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN Signs Two Historic Agreements
with UN Agencies</span></strong></a><br>
ICANN and the Swiss-based Universal Postal Union (UPU) have signed a historic
agreement giving the UPU managing authority over .post as a top-level domain.
In addition to the UPU-ICANN contract, ICANN also entered into another
important agreement the day before in Paris with another U.N. entity, the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).<br>
11 December 2009 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=style11><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-11dec09-en.htm">ICANN
Continues Reporting on the Selection Process of Independent Evaluators for the
New gTLD Program</a></span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>
Phase one of the selection process (e.g., general criteria scoring grid) has
been completed and each candidate is being notified of their status and next
steps.<br>
11 December 2009 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-08dec09-en.htm"><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN Welcomes 100th Member to the
Country Code Names Supporting Organization</span></strong></a><br>
On 3 December, ICANN’s Country Code Name Supporting Organization (ccNSO)
welcomed the Centro de Informatica da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, operator
of the country code .MZ (Mozambique), as its 100th member.<br>
8 December 2009 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-07dec09-en.htm"><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Announcement Regarding Implementation
of Modification to Implementation Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Policy</span></strong></a><br>
On 30 October 2009, the ICANN Board approved a modification to the
Implementation Rules for the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy
(“Rules”). The modified Rules now require UDRP claimants and
respondents to provide documents to UDRP Providers in electronic form. The
modified Rules also change UDRP Provider obligations in forwarding hard copy
notice to respondents in UDRP proceedings.<br>
7 December 2009</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Upcoming Events</span><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://nbo.icann.org/"><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
padding:0cm;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=100 height=100
id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:~WRD001.jpg"
alt="Image removed by sender. 7 - 12 March 2010: 37th International Public ICANN Meeting - Nairobi, Kenya"></span></a><a
href="http://nbo.icann.org/">7 - 12 March 2010: 37th International Public ICANN
Meeting - Nairobi, Kenya</a></span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>20 - 25 June 2010:
38th International Public ICANN Meeting - Brussels, Belgium</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About ICANN</span><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/general/bylaws.htm">ICANN Bylaws</a></span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-top:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Our
bylaws are very important to us. They capture our mission of security,
stability and accessibility, and compel the organization to be open and
transparent. Learn more at <a href="http://www.icann.org/"><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.ICANN.org</span></strong></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/planning/">Strategic Plan, July 2007 - June 2010</a></span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/financials/budget-opplan.htm">Adopted FY10
Operating Plan and Budget</a></span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
[PDF, 1,470K]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/magazine/">Sign up for
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