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...accepted by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the proposal would give the board power over assigning Internet domain names, such as www.harvard.edu, to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), of which Wilson would be a member...
...proposal is accepted by the department, ICANN would control these businesses, recognizing official domain name providers as well as creating new endings for domain names, such as .biz or .store, to allow for more competition in Internet registration services...
...ICANN would then make sure that these for-profit corporations maintained compatible systems while keeping the system competitive; In this way, NSI's control would end without compromising the system's stability...
...ICANN proposal named nine interim board members of the corporation who will be responsible for its operation until a permanent board of 19 members is elected. Wilson is one of four Americans named to the board; the others are Esther Dyson '72, author and chair of EDventure Holdings, George H. Conrades, president of GTE Internetworking and Frank Fitzsimmons, senior vice president for global marketing at Dun & Bradstreet Corp...
Wilson, whom ICANN sought out for the board, had served as vice president for research at the University of Michigan during the Internet's initial development. A former member of the National Commission on Research, Wilson also served as a charter member of the National Academy of Sciences' Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable...