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==Historical Notes== | ==Historical Notes== | ||
After a long and drawn out governmental procurement process, the United States Government had entered into an agreement with NeuStar, Inc. which was to provide registry services for the .us country-code top-level domain (ccTLD), which then replacing VeriSign, Inc. Consistent with this change in the contracted operators, on Friday, 16 November 2001, the .us ccTLD was to be redelegated from VeriSign to NeuStar. | |||
This redelegation had occurred before the final completion of the normal IANA requirements. The United States Government had informed ICANN in the November of 2001 that, because of complexities of U.S. procurement laws, it was not able to now extend the existing arrangements with VeriSign nor were they able to complete the necessary three-way set of communications among itself, ICANN, and NeuStar. This then presented a peculiar set of circumstances: ICANN was now faced with the choice of either authorizing a redelegation, or creating a situation where the event could have occurred regardless, but there would be inconsistent data in the IANA database. Given ICANN's primary mission statement which is a focus on stability (and security as part of achieving stability), ICANN had authorized an emergency redelegation prior to an appropriate contract. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||