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<h3 style="margin: 7.5pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN Weekly Newsletter</span></h3>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">News from the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/"><span style="float: left;">http://www.icann.org</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
<strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="float: right;">Week
ending 11 December 2009 </span></span></strong></span></p>
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<h4><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Announcements
This Week</span></h4>
<p style="margin: 7.5pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-11dec09-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN Signs Two Historic Agreements
with UN Agencies</span></strong></a><br>
ICANN and the Swiss-based Universal Postal Union (UPU) have signed a historic
agreement giving the UPU managing authority over .post as a top-level domain.
In addition to the UPU-ICANN contract, ICANN also entered into another
important agreement the day before in Paris with another U.N. entity, the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).<br>
11 December 2009 </span></p>
<p style="margin: 7.5pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="style11"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-11dec09-en.htm">ICANN
Continues Reporting on the Selection Process of Independent Evaluators for the
New gTLD Program</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br>
Phase one of the selection process (e.g., general criteria scoring grid) has
been completed and each candidate is being notified of their status and next
steps.<br>
11 December 2009 </span></p>
<p style="margin: 7.5pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-08dec09-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN Welcomes 100th Member to the
Country Code Names Supporting Organization</span></strong></a><br>
On 3 December, ICANN’s Country Code Name Supporting Organization (ccNSO)
welcomed the Centro de Informatica da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, operator
of the country code .MZ (Mozambique), as its 100th member.<br>
8 December 2009 </span></p>
<p style="margin: 7.5pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-07dec09-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Announcement Regarding Implementation
of Modification to Implementation Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Policy</span></strong></a><br>
On 30 October 2009, the ICANN Board approved a modification to the
Implementation Rules for the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy
(“Rules”). The modified Rules now require UDRP claimants and respondents to
provide documents to UDRP Providers in electronic form. The modified Rules also
change UDRP Provider obligations in forwarding hard copy notice to respondents
in UDRP proceedings.<br>
7 December 2009</span></p>
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<h4><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Upcoming
Events</span></h4>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://nbo.icann.org/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><img id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://www.icann.org/images/nairobi-logo-155x82.png" style="border: 0px solid rgb(48, 110, 255); margin-right: 10px; vertical-align: middle;" alt="7 - 12 March 2010: 37th International Public ICANN Meeting - Nairobi, Kenya" border="0"></span></a><a href="http://nbo.icann.org/">7 - 12 March 2010: 37th International Public ICANN
Meeting - Nairobi, Kenya</a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">20 - 25 June 2010:
38th International Public ICANN Meeting - Brussels, Belgium</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<h4><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">About
ICANN</span></h4>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/general/bylaws.htm">ICANN Bylaws</a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Our
bylaws are very important to us. They capture our mission of security,
stability and accessibility, and compel the organization to be open and
transparent. Learn more at <a href="http://www.icann.org/"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">www.ICANN.org</span></strong></a>.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/planning/">Strategic Plan, July 2007 - June 2010</a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/financials/budget-opplan.htm">Adopted FY10
Operating Plan and Budget</a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
[PDF, 1,470K]</span></p>
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