Re: [ga] Advisory Regarding the .us TLD
Danny Younger wrote: The Department of Commerce/ National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued a "sources sought" notice of an intention to procure centralized management and coordination of registry, registrar (where specified), database, and information services for the usTLD. From the "synopsis" I do not see that NTIA has indicated that is has a statutory basis upon which it can base any authority to run .us, much less to contract-out for its management. I did not see any reference to the full non-synopsis as perhaps it answers that question. However, given that the Congress' GAO has *twice* failed to find any source of authority for NTIA in these matters, the absence of an answer would not be surprising. A lack of authority would potentially render null and void all of NTIA's agreements including those it has with ICANN, Verisign, and others. --karl--
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