[atlarge-discuss] ICANN GIVEN ONE YEAR TO PROVE ITSELF

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>ICANN GIVEN ONE YEAR TO PROVE ITSELF
>Amid widespread complaints about the way that the Internet Corporation
>for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has performed, the U.S.
>Department of Commerce announced it would give the organization one
>more year to prove itself. Assistant secretary of commerce Nancy
>Victory noted in the announcement that the Commerce Department is not
>satisfied with the transparency of ICANN's decision-making process nor
>with the group's inclusion of national governments in that process.
>The extension, she said, is nonetheless justified given ICANN's
>progress recently. Under the terms of the extension, ICANN will be
>required to complete specified tasks to satisfy the Commerce Department
>and to make quarterly reports about their progress on those tasks. The
>announcement from Commerce, however, concedes that currently "no
>obvious alternative exists" to extending ICANN's contract.
>New York Times, 21 September 2002 (registration req'd)
>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/technology/21DOMA.html

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