On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Brian Kantor <Brian@ampr.org> wrote:
The US NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) has published an inquiry as to whether its transfer of stewardship of IANA to ICANN in 2016 should be "unwound." They are requesting comments from interested parties to be sent to them by early July.
Quoting _The Register_:
"The US government has formally asked whether it should reassert its control of the internet's administrative functions, effectively reversing a handover to non-profit organization ICANN two years ago."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/05/us_government_icann_iana/
"should Uncle Sam regain ultimate control of IANA – the ICANN department that oversees the planet's domain-name system, IP address allocation, and network protocol number assignments?" IANA is the Internet Assigned NUMBERS Authority. AFAIK, it does not have stewardship over the domain-name system. ICANN also does domains but not the IANA part. NTIA seems confused about this too: the notice describes privatization of the DNS happening in 2016. -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>