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<p class=MsoPlainText><a
href="http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-09jan08.htm">http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-09jan08.htm</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>ICANN Releases Its Submission to the Midterm Review of
the Joint Project Agreement<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>ICANN Board believes that JPA Responsibilities are being
met<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>9 January 2008<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>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></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>"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></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>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></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>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></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>"This success should be commemorated," Dengate
Thrush stated in the Board’s submission.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>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></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>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></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>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 <a
href="http://icann.org">http://icann.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>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></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Glen de Saint Géry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>GNSO Secretariat - ICANN<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://gnso.icann.org">http://gnso.icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Mark McFadden<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Secretariat, ISPCP Constituency<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>mcfadden@ispcp.info<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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