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GAC MEETINGS
Meeting 3: Santiago - 26 August 1999
Communique of the Government
Advisory Committee
August 24, 1999
Santiago, Chile
TUESDAY, 24 AUGUST 1999 - The Governmental Advisory Committee of
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers held its third
meeting today. The attending Committee members, representing 28
national governments, distinct economies as recognised in
international fora, and multinational governmental and treaty
organisations, issued the following statement:
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has had fruitful
discussions around substantive issues relating to the usage of the
Internet across the worldwide community and the administration of the
country code top level domains. The GAC initiated a positive and
constructive process for addressing these and other significant
Internet policy issues, and as a consequence makes the following
recommendations to the ICANN Board:
- With regard to ICANN's Proposed Interim Policy for Geographic
Diversity on the ICANN Board of Directors:
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The GAC supports the underlying principles of geographic
diversity and international representation in the context of ICANN.
The GAC believes that these principles are best implemented using
the criterion of citizenship, as specified in the By-laws of ICANN,
to determine the eligibility of directors of the board of ICANN
and of participants in the Councils of the Supporting
Organizations. In addition, taking into consideration the
practicality of determining the electorate, the GAC supports the
use of residency as the criterion for determining the eligibility
of the electorate.
- With regard to principles for the delegation of management for
country code top level domains:
- 1. The GAC reaffirmed its May resolution that the Internet
naming system is a public resource and that the management of a
TLD Registry must be in the public interest.
- 2. Accordingly, the GAC considers that no private intellectual
or other property rights inhere to the TLD itself nor accrue to
the delegated manager of the TLD as the result of such delegation.
- 3. The GAC also reaffirmed that the delegation of a ccTLD
Registry is subject to the ultimate authority of the relevant
public authority or government. The GAC discussed the development
of best practices for the administration of ccTLDs and agreed to
continue this discussion.
The next face-to-face meeting of the GAC will be held on 2
November 1999 in Los Angeles, to coincide with ICANN's next round of
meetings.
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