I think something like this should have remained within government. Deregulation here wasn’t necessary.
It’s small but has outsized impact on how the internet works.
That said maybe devolution was eventually inevitable.
It’s small but has outsized impact on how the internet works.
That said maybe devolution was eventually inevitable.
The Obama admin's intent was to increase faith in ICANN by pulling it away from strictly American interests.
That does not appeared to have worked out.
I agree, but even that is far from ideal because which government should control it?
I feel like that's the way ICANN should have gone, and it is probably worth it to just buy out the organization and put it under the UN. Either that or some version of decentralized DNS is going to start looking really attractive and ICANN will become the equivalent of a failed state.
The legal doctrine that established a nexus in the US simply because ICANN was controlled by the US government had long-term geopolitical repercussions. In the lead up, the FBI seized the domains belonging to sites that otherwise had no ties to the US under this doctrine. I suspect the long-term fear was that other countries would deploy their own root name server, which would not in the American national interest.