[governance] IANA contract to be opened for competitive bidding on November 4

[John Curran]

On Oct 26, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:

> Secondly, it keeps bothering me how the so-called "technical community"
> (as you know, I use quotes because I find it hard in many fora to
> dissociate it from business interests) keeps parroting the "hands off
> Icann" motto while the same community seems quite comfortable with
> direct control of the USG over the IANA function.

Carlos - 
 
   Can you be clearer regarding which organizations seem "comfortable   
   with direct control of the USG over the IANA function"?  I ask to 
   improve my understanding, since I am not aware any of the existing
   organizations in the Internet technical community with such a view.

Thanks!
/John

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