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Subject: [NATIVE-AMERICAN-NEWS] Federally Recognized Indian Tribes Eligible to Get Internet Domain
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 16:16:16 EDT

OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY-INDIAN AFFAIRS
For Immediate Release: April 26, 2002 Contact: Nedra Darling
202-219-4152

Federally Recognized Indian Tribes Eligible to Get Internet
Domain Name Suffix Designating Them as Government Entities
WASHINGTON - A cooperative agreement between the General Services
Administration (GSA) and the Department of the Interior's (DOI) Indian
Affairs eGovernment initiative will allow Federally recognized Indian tribes
to participate in a program that will provide a domain name suffix
identifying the tribe on the World Wide Web as a government entity. "This has
been an idea bantered around for quite some time, for it to happen now
affirms President Bush's policy of treating American Indian tribes as
sovereign governments," Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Neal McCaleb said.
The General Services Administration is the government agency that grants the
.gov domain name suffix to government entities. Suffixes are used to identify
the function of a specific organization such as .com representing a
commercial venture, .org for organization, usually a non-profit, and .gov
meaning a Federal government entity. A tribe's domain name suffix will
include a dash, the letters nsn and the .gov designation. The nsn acronym
stands for native sovereign nation, when combined with www and the tribe's
name it will look like, www.tribesname-nsn.gov.
President Bush's Management and Performance Agenda sets eGovernment as a top
priority. The Office of the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs seeks to
utilize eGovernment technologies to transform its business and enhance its
relationship with tribes and individual Indians. Designating Federally
recognized tribes on the web as government entities is the first step in
implementing eGovernment that will provide pertinent information about Native
American programs and agencies, to be fully capable of business transactions,
and to provide individual services over the Internet on a twenty four hours,
seven days a week basis to Indian Country.
A tribe will need to apply to the Office of Assistant Secretary-Indian
Affairs to receive the domain name suffix. The process includes a letter
application, tribal resolution, or minutes of the meeting giving authority to
the person making the written request. A tribe can also register at <A HREF="http://www.gov-registration.gov/">;
www.gov-registration.gov</A>. For an example of an application and web content
guidelines contact Paul Marsden, e-Government Officer at 703-390-6308.


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