[81884] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NTIA will control the root name servers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Jul  1 18:28:52 2005
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:28:23 -0700
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Basically it sounds like the U.S. Gov't (NTIA)/U.S. Dept of Commerce 
> will take back control of the root name servers from ICANN at some 
> point.
no.  they never let go of it.  a change to a nameserver for an
african cctld has to go through the us dept of commerce.  they
are saving us from terrorists such as liman.  don't you feel
safe?
randy