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ICANN’s Game of Chicken with the USG & The Need for Adult (GAO) Supervision

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
ICANN recently proclaimed that the "Joint Project Agreement" (one of two contractual arrangements that ICANN has with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) governing ICANN's operations) will come to an end in September 2009. ICANN's insistence on this point first became clear back in October 2008 at ICANN's Washington, D.C. public forum on Improving Institutional Confidence when Peter Dengate Thrush, Chair of ICANN's Board declared: the Joint Project Agreement will conclude in September 2009. T

ICANN: Public Comment: CRAI Report on gTLD Registries and Registrars

Saturday, October 25th, 2008
ICANN has received a report today, issued by CRA International, titled “Revisiting Vertical Separation of Registries and Registrars” [PDF, 493K]. ICANN requested CRAI to perform economic research pursuant to two resolutions of the ICANN Board of Directors: 1) the 18 October 2006 resolution of ICANN’s Board of Directors seeking more information relating to the registry and registrar marketplace; and, 2) the 26 June 2008 resolution of ICANN’s Board, directing the development and completion of a