[ga] Re: [Ecommerce] US Drops ICANN/DNS Bombshell (on WSIS?)

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Manon and all,

  Is anyone familier really supposed to be suprised?  I am not.

Manon Ress wrote:

> From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law"
> <froomkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: US Drops ICANN/DNS Bombshell (on WSIS?)
> Reply-To: froomkin@xxxxxx
>
> The US Department of Commerce has announced an unexpected new policy
> regarding the Domain Name System (DNS) and the Internet Corporation
> for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
>
> In previous pronouncements, the US had indicated that the US would
> someday release its ultimate control over the 'root' - the file that
> contains the master list of authorized registries and thus determines
> which TLDs show up on the consensus Internet and who shall have the
> valuable right to sell names in them. That day would come if and when
> ICANN fulfilled a number of conditions spelled out in a Memorandum of
> Understanding (MOU).
>
> Today's announcement says the opposite: the US plans to keep control
> of the root indefinitely, thus freezing the status quo. Nothing will
> change immediately as a result. But the timing is weird, coming as it
> does only a short time before the forthcoming meeting of the UN-
> sponsored World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
>
>   More at http://www.discourse.net/archives/2005/06/
> us_drops_icanndns_bombshell_on_wsis.html
>
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