US Department of Commerce Extends MoU With ICANN

SAH writes "Earlier today the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the United States Department of Commerce announced that they agreed to extend their joint Memorandum of Understanding for another year until 30 September 2003. Here's a link to ICANN's announcement, and here's a link to a statement from the DOC."

ICANN should be put down.

[ccady]

Does anyone have a good reason why ICANN should be allowed to continue?

One little problem...

[GreyWolf3000]

In addition, the Department is very much aware of the concerns expressed by individual Internet stakeholders that ICANN is not always responsive to inquiries regarding DNS management issues. Although not specifically referenced in the MOU, the Department hopes that ICANN will develop processes and set aside appropriate resources to ensure it promptly responds to constituent inquiries. The Department hopes ICANN will include in its quarterly status reports details on how the organization implements processes and mechanisms to ensure responsiveness to such inquiries.

I for one do not share the DOC's enthusiasm. ICANN has consistently not done the Right Thing (TM) as a business--which is the entire cause of the dilemna. I also don't like how the DOC is shaping it's position based on what it hopes will happen, instead of what has happened. I wish Microsoft wouldn't do a lot of things, and hope they'd start doing others, but that doesn't change my negative opinion of them (sorry for yet another "M$" reference, but it seemed applicable).

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[haplo21112]

I wonder why this one wasn't a front page story?

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[armchairlinguist]

Probably because no one is all that surprised that the Department of Commerce is clueless.

It's only a 1 year extension.

[bill_mcgonigle]

Which looks alot like, "oh, crud, the contract expires next week, but we don't have a replacement in place. Bob, re-up them for a year while we get our shi together."