[alac] US DOC on Internet governance

["John R Levine" <johnl@xxxxxxxx>]

The Dep't of Commerce released an interesting note yesterday about DNS
management.  The most interesting part says:

 ICANN is the appropriate technical manager of the Internet DNS.  The
 United States continues to support the ongoing work of ICANN as the
 technical manager of the DNS and related technical operations and
 recognizes the progress it has made to date.  The United States will
 continue to provide oversight so that ICANN maintains its focus and meets
 its core technical mission.

Plain language translation: ICANN is not in charge of domains, DOC is.

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/US+Policy+Shift+On+DNS+Management+In+Runup+To+WSIS.aspx

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor
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