news Senate and House Chairs Call for Administration to Reconsider ICANN Internet Transition

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“The transition of the IANA functions to the global multi-stakeholder community is a serious, groundbreaking, and potentially unalterable action.”

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.), Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today, in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, raised numerous concerns about plans for the Obama Administration to cede authority over the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions managed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and called for reconsideration of the transition, currently set to occur on October 1, 2016.



https://energycommerce.house.gov/ne...call-administration-reconsider-icann-internet

 

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3034

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5418/related-bills