[governance] ICANN cleaning up the home front?

[Veni Markovski]

Needs one point of clarification for a little error:

At 15:12 25-10-05  +0200, Ralf Bendrath wrote:
><http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/technology/25internet.html?ex=1287892800&en=75c03f780c12f73d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
>
>The United States government has recently said that it no longer plans to
>give over control of Icann, which operates under a contract with the
>Commerce Department, to an international organization as was initially
>planned by the Clinton administration.

This was sent to the author of the article by Vint Cerf:

"As far as I am aware, it was not the Clinton Administration's 
purpose to give over control of ICANN to an international 
organization unless by this you might have meant ICANN itself. It was 
the intent expressed both in the original MOU with ICANN and the most 
recent amendment to it executed by the present administration's 
Department of Commerce/NTIA, that the MOU would terminate at the end 
of September, 2006, and that ICANN would operate at that time as an 
independent agent.

If you are able to substantiate this point, what would be a good way 
to clarify for your readers?"

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