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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">”The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced
today that the proposal developed by the global Internet multistakeholder community meets the criteria NTIA outlined in March 2014 when it stated its intent to transition the U.S. Government’s stewardship role for the Internet domain name system (DNS) technical
functions, known as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions.</span></font></span><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">”</span></font>
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<div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><</span><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2016/iana-stewardship-transition-proposal-meets-criteria-complete-privatization" class="">https://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2016/iana-stewardship-transition-proposal-meets-criteria-complete-privatization</a>></span></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">FYI,</span></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">/John</span></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">John Curran</span></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">President and CEO</span></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">American Registry for Internet Numbers </span></font></div>
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