[EURO-Discuss] Review of the Joint Partnership Agreement (JPA) between ICANN and the US Government

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear All:

The Joint Project Agreement between the United States government and  
ICANN will have a mid-term review in March. As part of this review,  
the US government put out a Notice of Inquiry (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/frnotices/2007/ICANN_JPA_110207.html 
)  asking for comments on the continued transition to the private  
sector of the technical coordination and management of the Internet’s  
domain name and addressing system (DNS). ICANN has responded to this  
call with several documents: a section in our Annual Report (http://www.icann.org/annualreport/annual-report-2006-2007.pdf 
); a letter of submission (http://icann.org/correspondence/dengate-thrush-to-sene-09jan08.pdf 
); and a table of achievements (http://icann.org/general/jpa-10-responsibilities-table-09jan08.pdf 
).
You can review the progress ICANN has reported to the USG on each of  
the 10 responsibilities in the JPA individually on pages 12 to 18 of  
the Annual Report. The seven-page submission letter (http://icann.org/correspondence/dengate-thrush-to-sene-09jan08.pdf 
), sent on 9th January 2008, is signed by ICANN's chairman of the  
Board, Peter Dengate Thrush, and outlines the Board's position that it  
has met fully its obligations and responsibilities. The JPA can now be  
completed. And finally, the table of achievements (http://icann.org/general/jpa-10-responsibilities-table-09jan08.pdf 
), whose index runs to 41 pages and when printed out runs to several  
hundred pages of evidential documentation, demonstrates what precisely  
ICANN has done in completion of the Joint Project Agreement.

ICANN would like to encourage all interested parties to review the  
documents and particularly to contact the United States government and  
make their views known. Over the course of the next few months, ICANN  
will add more information about the review and its progress on www.icann.org 
. ICANN welcomes your feedback and assistance either on the ICANN  
blog, at http://blog.icann.org/?p=262, on the public participation  
website, at http://public.icann.org/, or by email to: http://icann.org/general/contact.htm 
.

Regards,

Nick Ashton-Hart
Director, At-Large
ICANN
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