The United States government has been told to end its oversight role of the internet during its own consultation exercise over the future of net governance.
In a stark result, over 87 percent of those that commented on the US’s continued control of the internet’s hierachy said that it was time for it to transition toward a new, more international model. The company that the consultation was designed to review – not-for-profit overseeing organisation ICANN – fared little better, with nearly two-thirds of comments coming down against it.
The results will be a wake-up call to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) – the arm of the US government that carried out the consultation prior to the ending of its contract with ICANN on 30 September. The NTIA had quietly announced a notice of inquiry at the end of May in which it asked the public to respond to a number of questions it had over the future of ICANN’s role as technical overseeing body for the internet.
In the end, the NTIA was swamped with emails and took a week after the deadline had ended to post all the comments received. Just over half of the 632 comments finally received (discounting multiple emails) were not relevant to the inquiry itself, with 153 concerning themselves with the hot political issue of net neutrality in the US at the moment, and a further 174 making broad and often unhelpful comments along the lines of “keep the net free!” and “let the internet the way it is”.
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Some root servers should remain in the US but others should go to countries like the UK Japan Germany Canada etc. etc.
what about china and russia?