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GOVERNMENT TO UNVEIL PLAN TO OVERHAUL INTERNET DOMAIN NAMES

graphic January 29, 1998 Web posted at: 6:53 p.m. EDT (1853 GMT)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Clinton administration's eagerly awaited proposal for overhauling the Internet's naming system and phasing out U.S. government involvement will be released Friday, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

The department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration unit said it will post the plan on the World Wide Web at http://www.ntia.doc.gov.

The plan, originally expected in November, seeks to resolve the controversy over management of some of the Internet's most basic functions, including the assignment and registration of names for Web sites.

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