Global Oversight For Internet; US Role In Core Infrastructure Unchanged 01/10/2009 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments A mere “affirmation of commitments” (AoC) between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the United States Department of Commerce has replaced the decade-old joint project agreement in place in different forms since ICANN started technical coordination of names and numbers on the net in 1998.