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US Government Withdraws IANA Contract From ICANN
mbone writes "The 'no cost' contract between the U.S. Department of Commerce and ICANN over hosting the Internet Assigned Names and Number Authority (IANA) was supposed to be re-let this March. Now, it has been withdrawn, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) says that 'we are cancelling this RFP because we received no proposals that met the requirements requested by the global community.' This is a pretty stunning vote of no confidence in ICANN by the U.S. government, on the eve of the 43rd ICANN meeting in Costa Rica. Speculation is that this is related to the attempts of the ITU-T to take over Internet governance, but it also could be over the new global top level domains. I am sure we will be hearing a lot more about this in the weeks to come."
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The ICANN has been collaborating with the Amerian government for a while now, this move just makes it official that the government assumes total control.
1. Requests for global removal of the records of sites responsible for the slander (as defined by the United Nations) of the most excellent leadership or governance of its member states must be honored within 90 minutes.
2. All requests for resolution of .com domains must initially resolve to a United Nations maintained address that will host a site warning of the inherent dangers of private corporate entities.
3. The cost of traditionally US TLD assignments (.com .org .us .mil .gov) must average between 1500% and 2000% more than all other assignments, with the accumulated difference forwarded to the United Nations for fair and equitable distribution.
So why should we just go ahead and capitulate ownership? I mean, seriously? I'm all for helping out the world and all that, but I'm getting just a little sick and tired of everybody else trying to steal all our stuff.
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