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|"U1.| This unanimous joint statement is made by: Internet Multicasting Service, Inc. P.O. Box 217 Stewarts Point, CA 95480 United States Phone: +1.707.847.3720 Facsimile: +1.415.680.1556 URI: http://not.invisible.net/ and Internet Software Consortium, Inc. 950 Charter Street Redwood City, CA 94063 United States Facsimile: +1.650.779.7055 Phone: +1.650.779.7000 URI: http://www.isc.org |"U2.| |"WHEREAS:| The Internet Multicasting Service ("IMS") is a public corporation chartered in 1993 under the laws of Delaware, and certified as a public, tax-exempt foundation under section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code and by the state of California; and |"U3.| |"WHEREAS:| The Internet Software Consortium ("ISC") is a public-benefit, not-for-profit corporation chartered under the laws of California; and |"U4.| |"WHEREAS:| The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") has issued a notice of intent to solicit proposals for an organization to assume operation of the .org registry, effective when the present .org registry operator's contract ends in December, 2002; and |"U5.| |"WHEREAS:| IMS has significant experience and unique expertise in managing large infrastructure projects on the Internet and in running large database services, and |"U6.| |"WHEREAS:| ISC has experience and unique expertise in operating critical services and producing production software for core Internet infrastructure, and |"U7.| |"WHEREAS:| IMS and ISC have jointly and severably conducted a series of large Internet projects, and have a long history of successful cooperation; and |"U8.| |"WHEREAS:| the Boards of Directors of IMS and ISC have caused corporate officers and members of the Boards of both organizations to investigate the feasibility and desirability of IMS and ISC jointly participating in the ICANN solicitation for an organization to operate the .org registry upon the expiration of the present operator's term; and |"U9.| |"WHEREAS:| the corporate officers and members of the Boards of both organizations have determined that it is both feasible and desirable for IMS and ISC to jointly operate the .org registry, and that IMS and ISC have unique experience, expertise, and qualifications making them ideally and uniquely suited to undertake such an operation; and |"U10.| |"WHEREAS:| the corporate officers and members of the board have prepared the Proposal, herein attached and incorporated by reference; |"BE IT THEREFORE:| |"U11.| |"RESOLVED:| that the respective Boards of Directors of IMS and ISC hereby commit and agree to IMS submitting to ICANN a proposal, herein attached and incorporated by reference, which demonstrates the joint expertise and unique suitability to operate the .org registry, and hereby authorize IMS to submit such proposal; and be it further |"U12.| |"RESOLVED:| that should IMS be appointed to operate the .org registry, then ISC commits to work jointly with IMS to operate the .org registry; and be it further |"U13.| |"RESOLVED:| that upon IMS signing the contract to operate the .org registry, ISC shall execute a corresponding contract obligating ISC to work jointly with IMS to most effectively administer and operate the .org registry, which contract period shall coincide with the contractual period during which IMS shall operate the .org registry.

The Joint Statement of Authority and Commitment is hereby adopted by the unanimous consent of the Board of Directors of the Internet Multicasting Service, Inc. this 15th day of June, 2002.

/Rick Adams/ Rick Adams Director, Internet Multicasting Service /Dave Farber/ Dave Farber Director, Internet Multicasting Service /Daniel Karrenberg/ Daniel Karrenberg Director, Internet Multicasting Service /Carl Malamud/ Carl Malamud Director, Internet Multicasting Service /Rebecca Malamud/ Rebecca Malamud Director, Internet Multicasting Service /Marshall T. Rose/ Marshall T. Rose Director, Internet Multicasting Service /Pindar Wong/ Pindar Wong Director, Internet Multicasting Service

The Joint Statement of Authority and Commitment is hereby adopted by the unanimous consent of the Board of Directors of the Internet Software Consortium, Inc. this 15th day of June, 2002.

/Teus Hagen/ Teus Hagen Director, Internet Software Consortium /Evi Nemeth/ Evi Nemeth Director, Internet Software Consortium /Paul Vixie/ Paul Vixie Director, Internet Software Consortium /Stephen Wolff/ Stephen Wolff Director, Internet Software Consortium

We do hereby endorse the Joint Statement of Authority and Commitment and do hereby endorse the principles therein and affirm our commitment to the Proposal on this 15th day of June, 2002.

/Carl Malamud/ Carl Malamud, Program Manager /Rebecca Malamud/ Rebecca Malamud, Program Manager /Paul Vixie/ Paul Vixie, Program Manager /Suzanne Woolf/ Suzanne Woolf, Program Manager /Joe Abley/ Joe Abley, MTS /Luther Brown/ Luther Brown, MTS /Brad Burdick/ Brad Burdick, MTS /Michael Graff/ Michael Graff, MTS /Rick Wesson/ Rick Wesson, MTS

I do hereby commit to provide a US$2.5 million line of credit if the ICANN board awards the .org registry contract to this bid.

/Rick Adams/ Rick Adams

Written signatures to the Joint Statement will be sent upon request.

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