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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."

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  1. Re:Maybe the best solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Perhaps the running of the internet should
    > become a United Nations function?

    That's a negative, 18-Wheeler...

    Before we did that I would rather see the United
    States cut it's Internet links to the rest of the
    world and go it alone. Really, we don't need the
    rest of the world. In fact, we'd probably be a
    lot better off as our networks and computers
    would be a lot less congested.

  2. Re:Maybe the best solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The UN: The organization whose "Human Rights" committee is chaired by a nation involved in slave trading.