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Ask HN: Do you support the United States' disengagement from ICANN?
On October 1st, certain antitrust exemptions granted to ICANN under the US Department of Commerce will expire. Subsequently, ICANN will no longer be legally able to administer the root zone while under US jurisdiction, and will seek stewardship under a different government entity willing to provide similar exemptions.
Do you support or oppose this change?
The formal proposal: https://www.ianacg.org/icg-files/documents/IANA-transition-proposal-final.pdf
- DKnoll 10y ago<canuck> Definitely, who wouldn't? </canuck>
- auganov 10y agoThe whole rationale behind it is [0] to thwart attempts at creating a U.N.-run IANA or countries creating their own IANAs. Most seem to believe that governments or government-influenced entities won't really gain any significant, disconcerting powers. If so - is it reasonable to believe that in the long term it will have the desired political result? I don't feel like I fully understand what's going to happen. So I'd definitely feel more assured if we went for a probationary period as suggested here https://www.lawfareblog.com/icann-and-iana-transition-proceed-caution https://www.lawfareblog.com/icann-and-iana-transition-procee... [0] is it?
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoDo I trust the US? Sadly, no, I don't, not any more. Do I trust somebody like the UN? Absolutely not. Do I trust a "Global Multistakeholder Community" to not become the UN? No. So the US running ICANN seems to me to be likely to end up less badly than having somebody multinational run it.