[LINK] ICANN and those new TLDs

[Scott Howard]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:

> ICANN Web Address Controversy Deepens After U.S. Warning
>
> By Georgina Prodhan
>
> LONDON (Reuters) - A controversial attempt to expand Internet
> addresses far beyond the likes of .com, .org or .net has provoked a
> rare threat from the U.S. government to withdraw a key licence from
> the body that runs the Internet's core functions.
>

As far as I can see, the "US government" has done no such thing.

2 weeks ago the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
(NTIA) withdrew their RFP to provide "IANA functions" "because [they]
received no proposals that met the requirements requested by the global
community". (Full release at
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/other-publication/2012/notice-internet-assigned-numbers-authority-iana-functions-request-proposal-rf
)


>From multiple accounts, NTIA was simply not happy with the level of detail
that ICANN provided in response to the RFP.  The RFP will be re-issues in
the near future, and the expectation is that ICANN will spend a little more
time crossign the t's and dotting the i's this time...

  Scott.