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The Joint Project Agreement (JPA), the agreement under which ICANN has operated under since its inception expires today with the United States. ICANN released the”Affirmation of Commitments” which replaces the JPA starting tomorrow. Basically the US is giving up sole and full control over ICANN and sharing it with “the world” We predicted this would happen late last year in our predictions for 2009 . What does this mean for the domainer community? For one it give a huge boost to the .

CADNA Calls for Full-Scale Audit of ICANN WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — With just over a week left before the expiration of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Department of Commerce, the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) urges the US government to closely re-examine ICANN’s structure, governance, and oversight mechanisms before committing to any further long-term cooperation. Significant a

By Michael Palage & Berin Szoka Over the next month, the ICANN Board will consider its options for ensuring that some framework is in place to ensure ICANN's accountability to the global Internet community after the approaching expiration of its Memorandum of Understanding and Joint Project Agreement (MOU/JPA) with the U.S. Department of Commerce. We analyze these options in our new paper, " Choosing the Right Path to a Permanent Accountability Framework for ICANN ." We urge the ICA

By Michael Palage & Berin Szoka , The Progress & Freedom Foundation Over the next month, the ICANN Board will consider its options for ensuring that some framework is in place to ensure ICANN’s accountability to the global Internet community after the approaching expiration of its Memorandum of Understanding and Joint Project Agreement (MOU/JPA) with the U.S. Department of Commerce. We analyze these options in our new paper, “ Choosing the Right Path to a Permanent Accountability Fra