Specifically, ICANN is responsible for coordinating the assignment of protocol parameters, overseeing the domain name system, allocating IP-address space and managing the root-server system.

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The current informal system of allocating air time and scheduling broadcasts seems badly in need of an overhaul.

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One of the sticking points that caused the Senate to deadlock on rewriting America's immigration laws was a proposed point system for allocating visas.

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Differential tuition is a variant of performance-based funding, a system of allocating state higher education resources based on performance metrics such as degree completion.

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He would simply use projected budget surpluses to keep the system going until 2050, by paying down national debt and allocating the equivalent of the interest saved to the Social Security system.

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Liz Nicholl, chief executive of UK Sport, the body responsible for allocating public funding to elite athletes, told the BBC the success of any high performance system "depends on the right level of investment".

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"Because of the room created by unifying categories, the current SEBI auction mechanism allocating debt limits for corporate bonds will be replaced by an "on-tap" system currently in place for infrastructure bonds, " the minister said.

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The costs of providing and managing care, as everyone also knows, can be very difficult to control, and the task of allocating the resources necessary to an effective infrastructure of care is one that the current cartel-like system is not doing very well.

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