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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) executed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on spectrum coordination. The MOU, signed by FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell and Assistant Secretary of Commerce Nancy J. Victory, will apply to coordination of spectrum issues involving both federal and non-federal users.

NTIA  pledged active U.S. government participation in the global effort, known as "ENUM" and now under way, to match phone numbers with Internet addresses. ENUM would enable U.S. citizens to communicate both voice and text messages through one single identifier, either a telephone number or an e-mail address.

NTIA, the State Department and the Federal Communications Commission sent a joint letter to the ENUM Forum (.pdf file) supporting an industry-based mechanism for implementing ENUM in the U.S.

License Agreement

Whereas on November 25, 1998, the U.S. Department of Commerce ("DoC" or "Licensor") and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN" or the "Licensee") entered into a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a joint project under which ICANN is assuming the responsibilities of overseeing the technical management of the Internet, including the Domain Name System (DNS); and,

SUMMARY OF COMMENTS

Registration and Administration of Internet Domain Names

[Docket No. 97061337-7137-01]

 

The reports developed by the U.S.

This document describes the types and depth of testing that NTIA is conducting in Phase I of the Spectrum Sharing Innovation Test-Bed Pilot Program to assess whether Dynamic Spectrum Access devices employing spectrum sensing and geo-location techniques can share the frequency spectrum with land mobile radio systems in the specified frequency bands.

This document describes the types of testing that NTIA proposes to conduct in Phase I of the Spectrum Sharing Innovation Test-Bed Pilot Program to assess whether Dynamic Spectrum Access devices employing spectrum sensing and geo-location techniques can share the frequency spectrum with land mobile radio systems in the specified frequency bands.

NTIA letter to ICANN transmitting the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's advice on cross-ownership issues for registries and registrars for existing and new gTLDs.