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<CENTER><B><FONT SIZE=+2>ICANN</FONT></B></CENTER>
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<CENTER><B><I>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers</I></B></CENTER>
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<CENTER><B><FONT SIZE=+1>DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee</FONT></B></CENTER>
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The ICANN Bylaws describe the DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee
as follows:</LI>
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<P>There shall be a DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee. The initial
chairman of the DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee shall be appointed
by the Board; subsequent chairs shall be elected by the members of the
DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee pursuant to procedures adopted
by the members. The responsibility of the Root Server System Advisory Committee
shall be to advise the Board about the operation of the root name servers
of the domain name system. The Root Server System Advisory Committee should
consider and provide advice on the operational requirements of root name
servers, including host hardware capacities, operating systems and name
server software versions, network connectivity and physical environment.
The Root Server System Advisory Committee should examine and advise on
the security aspects of the root name server system. Further, the Root
Server System Advisory Committee should review the number, location, and
distribution of root name servers considering the total system performance,
robustness, and reliability.
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ICANN Director <A HREF="http://www.icann.org/board.html#murai">Jun Murai
</A>has been appointed Chair of this committee.</LI>
<BR>&nbsp;
<LI><A HREF="committees/dns-root/crada.htm">Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
(CRADA) with U.S. Government</a></LI>
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<LI><A HREF="committees/dns-root/y2k-statement.htm">Root Nameserver
Year 2000 Status</a></LI>
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Organizational meeting for the Committee occurred in Singapore on
March 2. Additional meetings have occurred in Minneapolis, MN, USA on
March 16; San Jose, CA, USA on June 21; and Oslo, Norway, on July
12. </LI>
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<LI>Public notes for each RSSAC meeting will be posted as they become
available.
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<a href="committees/dns-root/sing-pub.html">Singapore meeting notes</a></LI>
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Minneapolis meeting notes</LI>
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San Jose meeting notes</LI>
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Oslo meeting notes</LI>
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Excerpts from the ICANN bylaws and the Memorandum of Understanding
between ICANN and the US Department of Commerce regarding the areas of
responsibility for which RSSAC advises ICANN can be found <a
href="committees/dns-root/rssac-bylaws.txt">here</a>. Please send mail to Suzanne Woolf <A
HREF="mailto:woolf@icann.org">woolf@icann.org</A> with any
questions.&nbsp; </LI>
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