[governance] Re: NTIA says ICANN “does not meet the requirements” for IANA renewal

[Karl Auerbach]

On 03/10/2012 09:47 AM, Robert Guerra wrote:
> As the story is - breaking - well, multiple sources are posting further comments and/or analysis of the news.

Don't forget that NTIA has good reason to delay everything until after
the US elections that will occur in early November of this year.

None of the new TLD's will be implemented before that election and NTIA,
being an agency subject to political winds (and funded by Congress) will
naturally want to want to wait to for the election results so they can
turn their decisions to the results of that election.

(We forget that it is ICANN's decisions about TLDs are not the final
decision - NTIA is the next step and it must make a yes/no choice before
it issues the order to Verisign to update the root zone file.  NTIA can
come under a great deal of bright light, and pressure, at that stage in
the process.)

	--karl--

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