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Issues

•	Complaints

•	Funding

•	Governance

•	MOU

•	Responsiveness

•	Transparency

CRE Interventions


	•	Agency Administrative Actions

	•	Rulemaking

	•	Litigation

Government


	•	Federal Computer Incident Response Center

	•	National Infrastructure Protection Center

	•	National Telecommunications and Information Administration

	•	US Department of Commerce

	•	US Office of Management and Budget

NGO's


	•	Domain Name Rights Coalition

	•	Electronics Frontiers Foundation

	•	gTLD-MoU

	•	ICANN at Large

	•	Internet Society

	•	The Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency

Technical Orgs


	•	CERT Coordination Center

	•	Internet Architecture Board

	•	Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

	•	Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers


	•	Internet Engineering Task Force


	•	Internet Mail Consortium


	•	Internet Research Task Center

	•	Requests for Comments Editor

Why Does A Technical Manager Function As A Regulator?
Unlike ICANN, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) responded graciously, promptly and substantively to inquiries from the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE) regarding governance of the internet.

CRE sent a letter to NTIA in mid-March asking about public access to documents prepared by ICANN under Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NTIA. NTIA provided a quick and clear response to CRE's questions. NTIA also reiterated its commitment to achieving transparency and accountability in ICANN's processes.

NTIA's response to CRE, although clear and comprehensive, raised a number of important questions about ICANN and their governance of the internet.

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