siveness to the user community, or other commit-
ments undertaken by ICANN in the Affirmation of 
Commitments in effect between the NTIA and 
ICANN on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
Any such veto will be final and will not be subject 
to override by any director or officer of ICANN. 
(9) The entity selected by the IANA Consor-
tium to carry out the editing of the root zone files 
in accordance with paragraph (6)(B) will implement 
a policy decision adopted by ICANN unless the 
Internet Freedom Panel vetoes such decision. 
(10) ICANN will remain subject to United 
States law (including State law) and to the jurisdic-
tion of United States courts (including State courts). 
(11) The United States Government will be 
granted ownership of the .gov and .mil top-level do-
mains, and the A and B root servers that manage 
such top-level domains will be maintained in the 
United States. 
(12) ICANN will conduct and publicly release 
the results of an audit of its operations during its 
5 fiscal years preceding the fiscal year in which the 
proposal is submitted to the Assistant Secretary and 
demonstrate that its financial and management deci-
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sions during such 5 fiscal years have been sound and 
comport with accepted business practices. 
(13) An annual audit of ICANN and the IANA 
Consortium will be performed by an internationally 
recognized auditing firm that will not have had a 
contract with ICANN during the 2-year period pre-
ceding the audit. The costs of the audit will be paid 
by ICANN and the IANA Consortium. 
(14) Neither ICANN nor the IANA Consortium 
will enter into an agreement or modify an existing 
agreement to impose on a registrar or registry with 
which ICANN or the IANA Consortium, as the case 
may be, conducts business any condition (such as a 
condition relating to the regulation of content) that 
is unrelated to ICANN’s core mission of coordi-
nating the global interoperability and uniqueness of 
domain names. 
(15) There will be established a joint office of 
inspector general for ICANN and the IANA Consor-
tium that will be jointly funded by ICANN and the 
IANA Consortium. Such office shall be headed by an 
Inspector General that is appointed by the board of 
directors of ICANN for a non-renewable, fixed term. 
The Inspector General will be granted full access to 
ICANN and the IANA Consortium, which will in-
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clude access to such matters as the finances, docu-
ments, and activities of ICANN and the IANA Con-
sortium. 
(16) The reports of the Inspector General will 
be made publicly available and will not be subject to 
approval or editing by ICANN, the IANA Consor-
tium, or the officers or directors of ICANN or the 
IANA Consortium. 
(c) DATE DESCRIBED.—The date described in this 
subsection is the following: 
(1) During the base period of performance of 
the IANA functions contract, the date on which the 
Assistant Secretary must give ICANN preliminary 
written notice of the intent to exercise the option to 
extend the contract through the first option period. 
(2) During the first option period of the IANA 
functions contract (if the contract is extended 
through such period), the date on which the Assist-
ant Secretary must give ICANN preliminary written 
notice of the intent to exercise the option to extend 
the contract through the second option period. 
(3) During the second option period of the 
IANA functions contract (if the contract is extended 
through such period), the date on which such period 
expires. 
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(d) REQUIREMENTS FOR NEW CONTRACT FOR PER-
FORMANCE OF IANA FUNCTIONS.—A contract for the 
performance of the IANA functions meets the require-
ments of this subsection if such contract— 
(1) is between the NTIA and ICANN or an-
other private, nonprofit entity; and 
(2) provides for each assurance listed in para-
graphs (1) through (16) of subsection (b), except 
that, in the case of a contract with an entity other 
than ICANN— 
(A) each assurance listed in such para-
graphs with respect to ICANN shall be consid-
ered to be an assurance with respect to such 
entity; and 
(B) such contract is required to provide for 
the assurance listed in paragraph (12) of such 
subsection only with respect to years during 
which such entity is in existence. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 
the Senate. 
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(2) ASSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Assist-
ant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Communications and Information. 
(3) BASE
PERIOD
OF
PERFORMANCE.—The 
term ‘‘base period of performance’’ means, with re-
spect to the IANA functions contract, the period be-
ginning on October 1, 2012, and ending on Sep-
tember 30, 2015. 
(4) FIRST OPTION PERIOD.—The term ‘‘first 
option period’’ means, with respect to the IANA 
functions contract, the period beginning on October 
1, 2015, and ending on September 30, 2017. 
(5) IANA CONSORTIUM.—The term ‘‘IANA 
Consortium’’ means the private, nonprofit corpora-
tion established pursuant to subsection (b)(5). 
(6) IANA FUNCTIONS.—The term ‘‘IANA func-
tions’’ means the Internet Assigned Numbers Au-
thority functions. 
(7) IANA FUNCTIONS
CONTRACT.—The term 
‘‘IANA functions contract’’ means the contract that 
is in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act 
between the NTIA and ICANN under which ICANN 
is required to perform the IANA functions. 
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(8) ICANN.—The term ‘‘ICANN’’ means the 
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Num-
bers. 
(9) INTERNET
FREEDOM
PANEL.—The term 
‘‘Internet Freedom Panel’’ means the body estab-
lished pursuant to subsection (b)(7). 
(10) NTIA.—The term ‘‘NTIA’’ means the Na-
tional Telecommunications and Information Admin-
istration. 
(11) SECOND OPTION PERIOD.—The term ‘‘sec-
ond option period’’ means, with respect to the IANA 
functions contract, the period beginning on October 
1, 2017, and ending on September 30, 2019. 
(12) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 
the several States, the District of Columbia, each 
commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United 
States, and each federally recognized Indian tribe. 
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