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Last year, many countries were up in arms over the fact that the US, via an agency of the Department of Commerce that maintains a contract with ICANN, controls the root directories of the Internet. Now they have an opportunity to make their objections known again.
These countries resented the current administration's "go it alone" policies over the war in Iraq, and this resentment exploded into anger when the administration announced last summer that the root directories were "too important to let out of American control," and reneged on its promise to release them. Now the current multi-year contract between the DoC and ICANN is about to expire - on September 30, and things are heating up again, since ICANN itself has many critics. A request for comments and the date of a public meeting have now been announced, and the comments submitted from at home and abroad should be interesting - as will be the decision whether or not to renew ICANN's current role, or award custody of these vital directories to another bidder.
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