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DoC to Extend ICANN's Control of IANA

Posted by michael on from the acronym-heaven dept.

Luminous Coward writes "I first saw this on The Register. Kevin Murphy of Computerwire reports: The US Department of Commerce last week quietly published a document detailing its decision to "sole-source" the contract for the so-called IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) function to ICANN, as opposed to opening the contract for competitive bidding. ICANNWatch explains why this is a bad idea. They also report that the ccTLDs and the Internet Multicasting Service have expressed interest in running IANA."

2 of 535 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Maybe the best solution by stickman19 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well if the UN took over the internet the French would want to run it and if security of the DNS servers and other Net backbones was anything like the French army would the sys admins just surrender all the servers to hackers/crackers?

  2. who gets control? by Blue+Bat+Poo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    would you rather verisign gets control of everything, and sell your name and contact information, and charge you extortionate amounts of money, or have an independent government sponsored organization run it?

    all you pale skinned paranoia freaks would choose the first option, because government running things is EVIL.

    i will take option number two, and go outside and live a life.