ICANN CEO Wants To Make Progress On Leaving US Control 73
itwbennett writes: ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé hopes to make progress on preparations to take over running the world's central DNS servers from the U.S. government's National Telecommunications and Information Agency when the organization meets in London next week. 'I think this is a meeting where the ICANN community has to deal with the fact, the good fact, that its relationship with the U.S. government, which characterized its birth, its existence and growth, has now run its course,' Chehadé said.
The submitter is on crack. RTFA. (Score:5, Informative)
The article is NOT about the DNS, although it is certainly about something extremely important: IANA.
NTIA (US gov agency) *asked* ICANN to provide a plan for the *stewardship* of IANA to move to ICANN.
ICANN is already the IANA *functions* contractor (i.e. it takes care of the operational arm of IANA), _and_ the global DNS coordinator.
That's it.
Re:NSA tapped all cables (Score:4, Informative)
The US economy is doing a damn sight better than the EU's, and most job growth is in sectors like hospitality, mining, retail, business services, etc. I don't know where you got your facts but they aren't. Aren't facts that is.
Re:The submitter is on crack. RTFA. (Score:5, Informative)
Please mod parent up.. From TFA:
those who want to replace the U.S. government with new oversight structure, an idea that [ICANN CEO] vehemently opposes