>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:47:17 -0400
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>From: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: The final official press release on new ICANN/NSI/DOC deal
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>ICANN, U.S. Department of Commerce, and Network Solutions, Inc., Announce
>Tentative Agreements
>on Future of Domain Name System
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>(Marina del Rey, CA) -- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
>Numbers (ICANN) announced today that it had tentatively reached a set of
>agreements with the U.S. Department of Commerce and Network Solutions, Inc.
>(NSI), to resolve outstanding differences among the three parties.
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>The agreements have been posted for a thirty-day public comment period on
>the ICANN website at http://www.icann.org/agreements.htm and will come
>before the Board for final consideration at its November meeting.
>
>"The ICANN Board is pleased that the lengthy negotiations over these issues
>have produced a workable structure based on compromises by all sides," said
>Esther Dyson, Interim Chairman of the ICANN Initial Board. "Our next step is
>to consider the input of the engineers, businesses, academics, individual
>users and other interested parties that make up the worldwide Internet. We
>look forward to welcoming Network Solutions as an ICANN accredited registrar
>and to working with them and the community to develop consensus policies
>regarding the management of the Domain Name System."
>
>The agreements consist of: (1) a Registry Agreement between ICANN and NSI;
>(2) a revised Registrar Accreditation Agreement between ICANN and all
>registrars in .com, .net, and .org; (3) a revised post-testbed
>Registrar-License and Agreement between NSI as registry and registrars; (4)
>an amendment to the Cooperative Agreement between the Department of Commerce
>and NSI; and (5) an amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding between the
>Department of Commerce and NSI.
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>Among the key provisions set forth in the agreements:
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>--NSI will recognize ICANN and agree to operate the .com, .org and .net
>registries in accordance with the Registry Agreement between ICANN and NSI
>and future consensus policies adopted by ICANN.
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>--NSI agrees to become an ICANN accredited registrar for the .com, .org, and
>.net domains. The ICANN accreditation agreement has been revised to include
>improvements suggested by registrars during the testbed phase.
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>--NSI has agreed to participate in the funding of ICANN through registry and
>registrar fees, provided that they are equitably apportioned.
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>--All accredited registrars (including NSI) will be required to provide
>continued public access to "WHOIS" data.
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>--The InterNIC website will be maintained as a public information site with
>a directory of links to accredited registrars.
>
>"Today's agreements signal the end of the months of uncertainty which have
>limited ICANN's ability to address its responsibilities," said Mike Roberts,
>ICANN's Interim President & CEO. "Subject to the comments of the global
>Internet community, the staff and I look forward to working with the Board
>and the community to implement these agreements."
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>About ICANN:
>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the
>non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for the IP
>address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, and domain name
>system management functions now performed under U.S. Government contract by
>IANA and other entities.
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