DoC to Extend ICANN's Control of IANA

Posted by michael on Tuesday February 11, 2003 @08:19AM 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."

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Earth to DoC by SubtleNuance · 2003-02-11 09:18 · 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'...