The chances of this bill becoming law are close to zero, unless it is attached to a larger "must pass" bill or added as a rider to an appropriations measure. I'm not sure that the concept of "ownership" is a good fit for a TLD, but that language could always be modified to something along the lines of "permanent control". Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal Virtualaw LLC 1155 F Street, NW Suite 1050 Washington, DC 20004 202-559-8597/Direct 202-559-8750/Fax 202-255-6172/Cell Twitter: @VlawDC "Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey -----Original Message----- From: accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of avri doria Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 12:28 PM To: accountability-cross-community@icann.org Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] New Bill on IANA Transition Hi, Two questions: - what are the chances that this becomes law - doesn't RFC1591 already take care of this? avri On 27-May-16 12:06, Greg Shatan wrote:
This has just been reported to me (hat-tip to Steve Metalitz):
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority transition got a new legislative challenge in the House Wednesday via the Securing America's Internet Domains Act (HR-5329). Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., bowed the bill, which would require NTIA to extend its existing contract with ICANN to administer the IANA functions through Sept. 30, 2019, unless the agency can certify it secured the U.S. government's "sole ownership" of the .gov and .mil top-level domains.
Greg
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