As the Department of Commerce and NSI are announcing today, the
testbed (which was scheduled to conclude today) is being extended through
Thursday, September 30, 1999. As the result of significant recent
discussions
concerning outstanding issues, NSI, ICANN, and the Department of Commerce
have made great progress towards resolving those issues. Among the issues
that have been discussed are improvements to the terms of the NSI-registrar
agreement that will apply after the testbed. This extension should allow
NSI,
ICANN, and the Department of Commerce to bring the discussions to
conclusion.