U.S. Government Retains ICANN Oversight

narramissic writes "ITworld reports that the U.S. Commerce Department will retain ICANN oversight for three more years, although there will be a review in 18 months of ICANN's progress toward becoming a more stable, transparent and accountable organization. The decision comes despite international pressure advocating for the U.S. government to bow out and make ICANN a totally autonomous entity."

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Re:does not compute

[morgan_greywolf]

The U.S. Postal Service does a pretty darn competitive job despite congressional oversight.

Of course, the USPS became an independent entity that receives 0 taxpayer dollars, too...

You want an ICANN Nation?

[stefanlasiewski]

The decision comes despite international pressure advocating for the U.S. government to bow out and make ICANN a totally autonomous entity.

A totally autonomous entity? You want to make ICANN it's own individual nation? The Internet should be run by a stateless corporation who is completely outside the authority of any government at all? That's straight out of a cyberpunk novel ;) Welcome to the Treehouse.

I thought the argument was to place ICANN under the authority of the UN, which is a completely different idea then making "ICANN a totally autonomous entity".

This is the meat of the argument, right? Should ICANN be under US authority or should it be under UN authority?