[bylaws-coord] New IANA Transition Bill

[Rinalia Abdul Rahim]

>From Politico:

*— NTIA, ICANN REAFFIRM U.S. CONTROL OVER .MIL, .GOV *— NTIA and ICANN are
taking steps to ease lawmakers’ concerns that the planned IANA oversight
transition could compromise U.S. control over the .gov and .mil generic Top
Level Domains. Several lawmakers, including Sens. Kelly Ayotte and Deb
Fischer, raised concerns at Tuesday’s Senate Commerce hearing that the
transition could risk U.S. authority over the government domains. “The
operation of and responsibility for .mil and .gov are not impacted by this
transition” and “cannot be sold or transferred without explicit agreement
first from the current administrators of those domains — namely, the U.S.
government,” an NTIA spokeswoman said in a statement. In light of
congressional concerns, NTIA said it’s asked ICANN to reaffirm the U.S.
government controls .mil and .gov. ICANN would require “express approval
from the U.S. government before any changes associated with the
administration of .mil and .gov can be made,” the spokeswoman said.

Rinalia

On Saturday, 28 May 2016, Greg Shatan <gregshatanipc at gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gregshatanipc at gmail.com');>> wrote:

> This just in:
>
> The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority transition got a new legislative
> challenge in the House
>
> Wednesday via the Securing America’s Internet Domains Act (HR-5329). Rep.
> Mike Kelly, R-Pa., bowed the bill, which would require NTIA to extend its
> existing contract with ICANN to administer the IANA functions through Sept.
> 30, 2019, unless the agency can certify it secured the U.S. government’s
> “sole ownership” of the .gov and .mil top-level domains.
>
>
> Greg
>
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