The Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Awareness Matters...
The Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Awareness Matters (DOTCOM) amendment would “hamstring NTIA as it attempts to do exactly what Congress has twice voted for unanimously -- namely, transferring responsibility for Internet governance to the multi-stakeholder community,” said House Commerce…
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Committee member Mike Doyle, D-Pa., by email Thursday. DOTCOM, which seeks to delay NTIA’s transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) until a GAO study is completed, was approved as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (HR-4435) Thursday (CD May 23 p6). The amendment was approved by 245-177 with full Republican support (http://1.usa.gov/1jYFPsz). Only 17 Democrats supported the amendment. “Delaying this transition allows anti-democratic nations to continue to use the IANA contract as a red herring to falsely claim that ’the U.S. government controls the Internet’ and argue for a greater role for governmental entities,” such as the ITU, said Doyle. “The amendment sends the wrong message to the multi-stakeholder community.”