The ICANN-U.S. AOC: What It Really Means
The JPA is dead. Long live the AOC. The Joint Project Agreement (JPA)
which has defined the relationship between ICANN and the United States
government for the past three years expired on September 30th, and that
same day an Agreement of Commitments (AOC – see http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-30sep09-en.htm for text) was unveiled by these same parties to govern their relationship for the indefinite future. The AOC essentially transfers a
Original post by Philip Corwin