Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Name Association: Difference between revisions
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Though APTLD is not a part of the ICANN structure, many of the members of APTLD are members of ICANN’s supporting organizations. One supporting organization of ICANN that the APTLD is involved with is the Country Code Names Supporting Organizations ([[ccNSO]]). | Though APTLD is not a part of the ICANN structure, many of the members of APTLD are members of ICANN’s supporting organizations. One supporting organization of ICANN that the APTLD is involved with is the Country Code Names Supporting Organizations ([[ccNSO]]). | ||
The APTLD | The APTLD pledged its full support of the Joint Process Agreement (JPA), which transitioned the handling of DNS responsibilities, earlier handled by the U.S Department of Commerce ([[DOC]]) on behalf of the U.S government, to a private organization such as Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It also acknowledged the progress of ICANN in reaching the objective of fulfilling its limited mandate of technical coordination of the Internet’s naming and numbering resources. | ||
It had also supported the independent functioning of ICANN without the direct oversight of the U.S government after the expiry of the JPA on 30th September 2009.<ref name="link2">[http://www.aptld.org/pdf/APTLD%20submission%20to%20NTIA%20on%20JPA%20090608.pdf\ aptld.org]</ref> | It had also supported the independent functioning of ICANN without the direct oversight of the U.S government after the expiry of the JPA on 30th September 2009.<ref name="link2">[http://www.aptld.org/pdf/APTLD%20submission%20to%20NTIA%20on%20JPA%20090608.pdf\ aptld.org]</ref> | ||