Hey All, Has anyone else seen the NTIA playing chicken with ICANN over the IANA? NTIA came out about 12 hours ago saying that it had not received a proposal that it deemed to fit it's criteria for the IANA RFP, It sounds like they are still annoyed at the new gTLD policies and the .xxx gTLD saga. Does anyone here believe that the IANA contract might move to someone else or is just posturing while waiting for a new CEO at ICANN who might work with NTIA better? From what I can understand the heart of the issue is NTIA want ICANN to prove that any new gTLD is in the best public interest but also be "approved" by the GAC I have to wonder how much longer the rest of the world will tolerate US interference in the DNS system such as the many recent examples of domain takedowns before action is taken, As messy as a "fork" would be of DNS the US government seems to be hell bent on putting any domain anywhere in the world under US law, Which I'm sure most can agree is bad thing. -- Tristram Cheer Network Architect - Most problems are the result of previous solutions... Tel. 09 438 5472 Ext 803 | Mobile. 022 412 1985 | 53 Port Road, Whangarei tristram.cheer(a)ubergroup.co.nz mailto:tristram.cheer(a)ubergroup.co.nz |www.ubergroup.co.nz http://www.ubergroup.co.nz http://ubergroup.co.nz/fb https://twitter.com/#!/ubergroupltd
