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| <TITLE>ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee - Communique - 2 March, 1999</TITLE> | |
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| <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#0000E1" VLINK="#006600" ALINK="#CC33CC"> | |
| <CENTER><B><FONT SIZE=+2>ICANN</FONT></B></CENTER> | |
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| <CENTER><B><FONT SIZE=+1>Governmental Advisory Committee</FONT></B></CENTER> | |
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| <B><P ALIGN="CENTER">Communique</P> | |
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| <P ALIGN="CENTER">2 March, 1999</P> | |
| <P>	The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation | |
| for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) held its inaugural meeting today. | |
| The attending Committee members, representing over 25 national governments, | |
| multinational governmental organisations and treaty organisations, issued the | |
| following statement:</P> | |
| <P>(1)	The national governments endorse the principles behind the creation of ICANN.</P> | |
| <P>(2)	The Committee commits itself to implement efficient procedures in support | |
| of ICANN. The Committee welcomes the opportunity to play a constructive role in the | |
| ICANN process by providing thorough and timely advice and analysis on relevant matters | |
| of concern to governments.</P> | |
| <P>(3)	The Committee has had fruitful discussions around substantive issues | |
| relating to the usage of the Internet across the worldwide community, the administration | |
| of the country code top level domains (ccTLDs), and the WIPO Internet domain name process. | |
| The Committee initiated a positive and constructive process for addressing these and other | |
| significant Internet policy issues.</P> | |
| <P>(4)	The next face-to-face meeting of the Committee will be held in Berlin in May, | |
| in connection with the meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors.</P> | |
| <P> </P> | |
| <P>	The governments, multilateral governmental organisations and treaty organizations | |
| sending representatives to today's inaugural Committee meeting included the following:</P> | |
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| <LI>Argentina</LI> | |
| <LI>Australia</LI> | |
| <LI>Bhutan</LI> | |
| <LI>Brazil</LI> | |
| <LI>Canada</LI> | |
| <LI>China</LI> | |
| <LI>France</LI> | |
| <LI>Germany</LI> | |
| <LI>Japan</LI> | |
| <LI>Korea</LI> | |
| <LI>Mexico</LI> | |
| <LI>Peru</LI> | |
| <LI>Singapore</LI> | |
| <LI>Spain</LI> | |
| <LI>Sri Lanka</LI> | |
| <LI>Tuvalu</LI> | |
| <LI>United States</LI> | |
| <LI>Asia Pacific Telecommunications</LI> | |
| <LI>European Commission</LI> | |
| <LI>Presidency of the European Union</LI> | |
| <LI>International Telecommunications Union</LI> | |
| <LI>OECD</LI> | |
| <LI>World Intellectual Property Organization</LI></UL> | |
| </DIR> | |
| </DIR> | |
| </UL> | |
| <CENTER> </CENTER> | |
| <CENTER><FONT SIZE=-1>Please send comments on this web site to: </FONT><A HREF="mailto:webmaster@iana.org">webmaster@icann.org</A></CENTER> | |
| <CENTER><FONT SIZE=-1>Page Updated 05-March-99.</FONT></CENTER> | |
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| <HR WIDTH="100%"><FONT SIZE=-2>(c) 1999 The Internet Corporation for Assigned | |
| Names and Numbers</FONT></CENTER> | |
| <CENTER><FONT SIZE=-2>All rights reserved.</FONT></CENTER> | |
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