The United States government is under pressure again, this time from two high-profile insiders, to end its overseeing role on the internet and transistion its role to an international body.
A paper [pdf] co-written by the ex-government lawyer that originally drew up the contract between the US government and internet overseeing organisation ICANN in 1998, J. Beckwith Burr, and ICANN insider and member of the ICANN’s President’s Strategy Committee, Marilyn Cade, will be officially released later today at a public meeting called to discuss the organisation’s future.
Entitled “Steps the US government (USG) can take to promote responsible, global, private sector management of the DNS”, the paper is under no doubt that the USG has to internationalise its role as ultimate authority over the internet’s domain name system and root zone file and explains that it hopes to provide a “concrete pathway” for doing just that.
It outlines four steps that it “urges” the USG to follow in arriving at that end-point.
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