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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."

3 of 535 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No Moderation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Try reading at -1 and you'll get the answer. *doh*

  2. Earth to DoC by SubtleNuance · · Score: 5, Informative

    That is very interesting news considering This article at The Register . The article talks about how Eurpoean top-level registries take over the technical task of running the Internet if ICANN cannot be relied upon to do a proper job -- because ICANN cannot seperate their Political machinations from the technical aspects of the DNS.

    A good example would be ICANN's desire to create a artifical scarcity of TLDs to maintain 'value in the namespace'...

  3. Re:The DNS system is already being abused. by nathanm · · Score: 2, Informative
    Take .GOV and .MIL domains for example, why should the usa keep these for themselves?
    Because the .mil TLD is the reason the Internet exists in the first place. ARPANET was a project under the DOD, a US government department (hence the .gov TLD).

    if they want domains for exclusive use by their own government, they should use gov.us and mil.us, just like every other country is.
    They should just be thankful they're allowed their own namespace.

    The .gov and .mil domains should be either available to legitimate governmental bodies in any country, or split into subdomains according to country (eg .us.gov .de.gov etc)
    Why change now? The present system is working fine.

    Why should the usa get 3 top level domains for it`s exclusive use? dont other countries deserve identical treatment?
    No. If they expend the resources to invent a separate global computer network, then they can administer the domains any way they please.