On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Brian Kantor <br...@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 ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
