| "The Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU) hereby agrees to act as the Depository of the gTLD-MoU and
to carry out the roles included therein."
Signed: May 1, 1997 by Dr. Pekka Tarjanne, Secretary-General, International
Telecommunication Union
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| "The Director General of the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) hereby declares that the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation
Center is available for administering procedures for the settlement of
disputes concerning second level domain names in the gTLDs covered by the
gTLD-MoU."
Signed: May 1, 1997 by Dr. Arpad Bogsch, Director General, World Intellectual
Property Organization
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| "The Universal Postal Union (UPU), with its headquarters
in Berne, Switzerland, is the Specialized Agency of the United Nations
that regulates world-wide postal services. The postal services of our 189
member countries and 210 Postal Enterprises form the largest physical distribution
network in the world. Some 6.1 million postal employees working in over
700,000 Post Offices all over the world handle an annual total of 450 billion
correspondences.
On behalf of our member Postal Enterprises, the UPU hereby officially
signs this letter as a "Related Statement" to the gTLD-MoU to support the
attempts to balance the management of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).
On behalf of our member Postal Enterprises, the UPU hereby requests
your acceptance of this letter as an explicit recognition of the need to
formalize the consultative policy framwork for continued evolution of the
Internet DNS, and as an explicit statement of our support .
We are prepared to offer our support to the development of
an international governance framework in which policies for the administration
and enhancement of the Internet's global Domain Name System are developed
and deployed."
Signed: June 6, 1997 by Thomas E. Leavey, Director General, Universal
Postal Union |
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