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ICANN Moves Toward Self-Rule
July 2004
Executives from the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) are inching
closer to a new era of self-government apart from
the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Speaking from the Shangri-La Hotel in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, during ICANN's tri-annual
meeting Monday, Vint Cerf, ICANN chairman, said
seven of the 24 tasks needed to move ICANN's
operations out of the hands of the U.S. government
are complete.
"We've made significant progress in the time since
the most recent amendment between the DoC and
ICANN, but plainly we still have a lot of work to
do," he said.
Paul Twomey, ICANN's CEO, said the list of tasks
involved in the governance shift would be posted
within the next 24 hours.
ICANN, a private company established in October
1998 to shepherd the technical aspects of the U.S.
root server, which includes the globally-popular
.com, .net and .org domain names, and ensure its
safety and stability, is set to take the reins of
control in September 2006.
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