[governance] ICANN cleaning up the home front?

[Patrick Vande Walle]

Veni Markovski wrote:

> This was sent to the author of the article by Vint Cerf:
>
> /"As far as I am aware, it was not the Clinton Administration's
> purpose to give over control of ICANN to an international organization
> unless by this you might have meant ICANN itself. It was the intent
> expressed both in the original MOU with ICANN and the most recent
> amendment to it executed by the present administration's Department of
> Commerce///NTIA, that the MOU would terminate at the end of September,
> 2006, and that ICANN would operate at that time as an independent agent.
> / 
> /If you are able to substantiate this point, what would be a good way
> to clarify for your readers?"
> /

Veni,

I would very much like to see this go ahead as expressed by Vint.
However, the statements by M. Gallagher on July 1st and Congress/Senate
resolutions more recently seem to go in the opposite direction.

Patrick




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