US Government Withdraws IANA Contract From ICANN 140
mbone writes "The 'no cost' contract between the U.S. Department of Commerce and ICANN over hosting the Internet Assigned Names and Number Authority (IANA) was supposed to be re-let this March. Now, it has been withdrawn, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) says that 'we are cancelling this RFP because we received no proposals that met the requirements requested by the global community.' This is a pretty stunning vote of no confidence in ICANN by the U.S. government, on the eve of the 43rd ICANN meeting in Costa Rica. Speculation is that this is related to the attempts of the ITU-T to take over Internet governance, but it also could be over the new global top level domains. I am sure we will be hearing a lot more about this in the weeks to come."
IANA Contract (Score:4, Funny)
I Am Not A contract?
Re:Misleading Headline (Score:1, Funny)
The changes requested related to allowing countries to have a higher degree of latitude within their borders:
Unless they have oil.
Re:The U.S. of A. invented the Internet (Score:5, Funny)
A Brit invented HTTP. I wish you'd stop stealing it.
(by which I mean I wish you would stop posting.)