Re: [atlarge-discuss] RE: [TechNews.Com] U.S. Will Renew ICANN's Authority 2.0

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

James and all stakeholders or other interested parties and members,

  Yes, I am aware and have the URL's you list here bookmarked and
have reviewed them closely.  However that was not what I was
referring to in Danny's post.  Rather I was asking Danny in the context of
his post (See below) as to perhaps he had a more recent URL
to which he was referring to...

Jkhan wrote:

> Jeff, I added the Washington Post technology news link to my "Favorites"
> a few months ago. It is a good source for keeping up inside the beltway.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/technology/
>
> A.K.A.: http://www.technews.com/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Williams [mailto:jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 8:24 PM
> To: dannyyounger@cs.com
> Cc: atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de; Nancy J. Victory; Don Evans; cathy
> Handley; gen full
> Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] U.S. Will Renew ICANN's Authority
>
> Danny and all stakeholders or other interested parties and members,
>
>   URL please.  It would seem that the DOC/NTIA have not been
> listening very well or have been employing only very selective
> comments and statements as to events regarding ICANN's
> Contract renewal.
>
> DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
>
> > By David McGuire
> > washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
> > Friday, September 13, 2002; 5:41 PM
> >
> > The U.S. government will renew a California nonprofit's authority to
> manage
> > the Internet's global addressing system, a top Commerce Department
> official
> > said today.
> >
> > The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
> manages the
> > Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) under agreements with the U.S.
> government
> > that are up for renewal at the end of this month.
> >
> > "At this point we do anticipate that there will be an extension" of
> ICANN's
> > authority, Commerce Department Undersecretary Nancy Victory told
> reporters in
> > a conference call. Victory is the head of the Commerce Department's
> National
> > Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which
> oversees
> > ICANN.
> >
> > ICANN, based in Marina del Rey, has been criticized for failing to
> involve
> > the online public in its decisions, but Victory said she has been
> encouraged
> > by internal ICANN reforms. She added that new agreements with ICANN
> would
> > include provisions "designed to ensure that we continue progress
> forward with
> > the reform effort."
> >
> > Victory did not say when the renewal of ICANN's authority would be
> completed,
> > nor did she indicate how long it would run.
> >
> > ICANN President Stuart Lynn said the group is "in discussions with the
> > Commerce Department right now about the precise shape" the agreements
> will
> > take.
> >
> > He added that ICANN would continue pushing to enact internal reforms.
> "We've
> > made good progress, but we haven't completed it. There's still work to
> be
> > done," Lynn said.
> >
> > Formed in 1998, ICANN was commissioned by the U.S. government to
> inject
> > competition into the domain name industry, which had been monopolized
> by
> > Internet addressing giant Network Solutions Inc. Networks Solutions
> owned a
> > government contract to operate the technical backbone of the DNS,
> which was
> > originally created by government-funded U.S. scientists.
> >
> > ICANN has accredited more than 100 new address retailers and approved
> seven
> > new globally available Internet domains that compete with dot-com,
> dot-net
> > and dot-org.
> >
> > Earlier this year, ICANN embarked on an internal reform effort, but
> critics
> > still complain that the reform plans don't give a meaningful voice to
> > ordinary Internet users.
> >
> > Victory said that the ICANN "experiment" needs more time to succeed,
> adding
> > that while she is pleased with ICANN's reform efforts thus far, but
> she is
> > not yet fully satisfied.
> >
> > University of Miami Law Professor Michael Froomkin said he is not
> surprised
> > that the Commerce Department opted to renew the contract. "They don't
> want to
> > rebuild ICANN from scratch," he said.
> >
> > Froomkin, editor ICANNWatch.org, a Web site often critical of ICANN,
> said it
> > will be more interesting to see how much pressure the Commerce
> Department
> > exerts on ICANN to reform itself.
> >
> > Center for Democracy and Technology Policy Analyst Robert Courtney
> agreed.
> > "We've always sort of anticipated that the [memorandum of
> understanding]
> > would be renewed. We continue to hope for and continue to push for
> some new
> > provisions to be included in the MOU," Courtney said. The agreement
> should
> > clearly outline steps ICANN must take to improve its openness and
> > transparency, Courtney said.
> >
> > Froomkin said that Victory's resolve will be key to ICANN's future.
> "What
> > matters is the will of the NTIA, what they put in the agreement is
> less
> > important," he said. "What matters more than anything else is when
> NTIA is
> > willing to draw a line in the sand and really mean it."
> >
> > Later this month, Victory will be part of the U.S. delegation at a
> meeting of
> > the International Telecommunications Union in Marrakech, Morocco. The
> United
> > States intends to oppose the ITU's efforts to participate more in
> Internet
> > regulation, Victory said.
> >
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> Regards,
> --
> Jeffrey A. Williams
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