On 22 Sep 2008, at 20:22, John Levine wrote:
Why would the US dept. of Commerce be involved with the re-delegation of a sovereign state's TLD?
ICANN operates IANA under a contract with the USDOC. I realize that there are people who wish it were otherwise, but that's the structure that exists today, and the USDOC has made it quite clear that it's not going to change any time soon.
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