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NTIA will control the root name servers?

  • From: Deepak Jain
  • Date: Fri Jul 01 18:24:20 2005


http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/01/HNinternetdirectories_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/01/HNinternetdirectories_1.html

Is this operational or dross?

Basically it sounds like the U.S. Gov't (NTIA)/U.S. Dept of Commerce will take back control of the root name servers from ICANN at some point. I suppose they might just contract operation of them to ICANN, but its unclear to me.

I'm hesitant to post because if this were a huge deal I would have expected someone to beat me to the punch. But then again, its a holiday weekend in the U.S.

Deepak