[council] ccTLD Constituency Interim Secretariat

[Kanchana Kanchanasut <kk@cs.ait.ac.th>]

Press Release

Paris, June 30, 2000

One year after the establishment of ccTLD Constituency, the ccTLD joint
Secretariat will begin its functions as of July 3, 2000. In June 2000
the
ccTLD Constituency resolved to establish its Interim Secretariat, and
the
ccTLD Administrative Committee requested Kanchana Kanchanasut from
Thailand,
the new Executive Director, to start the Interim ccTLD Secretariat
activity
immediately. Kanchana Kanchanasut and her team, Abhisak Chulya and Sirin

Palasri, will be operating from their Bangkok-based office. Technical
and
financial operations as well as other secretariat responsibilities will
be
shared by AFNIC, Elisabeth Porteneuve.

The Interim ccTLD Secretariat can now be contacted at
cctld-sec@thnic.net.
Information and anouncements from the ccTLD Secretariat can be accessed
at
either http://cctld.nic.fr or http://cctld.thnic.net (two names for the
same
site).

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About ccTLD Constituency

The ccTLD Constituency of the Domain Name Supporting Organization has
been
established after the ICANN Berlin Meeting in May 1999. Members of the
Constituency are the country code Top Level Domain Registries as
recorded in
ICANN/IANA database. The ccTLD Constituency is managed by an elected and

geographically diverse Administrative Committee.

The ccTLD Secretariat is a contact point of the Constituency and is
operating under the guidance of the Administrative Committee.

ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
IANA, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
DNSO, Domain Names Supporting Organization

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