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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


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