[nycbug-talk] U.S surrenders ICANN control

[Dan Langille]

On 27 Jul 2006 at 18:26, Marc Spitzer wrote:

> On 7/27/06, Isaac Levy <ike at lesmuug.org> wrote:
> > Hey All,
> >
> > There's reports in the news that the U.S. Govt. is surrendering ICANN
> > to a 'non-profit' international body.
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/27/ntia_icann_meeting/
> >
> > That article got slashdotted too.
> >
> > --
> > Does anyone have any opinions/thoughts on the ramifications of this
> > action?  My brain is churning on it from a lot of angles...
> 
> I think it is an action that will result in bad things happening, at
> least we still have the root DNS servers and that should definitly be
> a from my cold dead hand issue.

Not all root servers are in USA.

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