We've spoken with people involved with the ICANN and I think that'd be unlikely. In a sense, ICANN is the incumbent that Handshake is trying to unseat, so it's

We've spoken with people involved with the ICANN and I think that'd be unlikely. In a sense, ICANN is the incumbent that Handshake is trying to unseat, so it's not surprising that they don't like it. There have also been numerous alternative root projects in the past that all failed, so when ICANN people see that aspect of Handshake they quickly dismiss it. Interestingly, we've had conversations with Vint Cerf who invented TCP/IP and he actually liked the properties that Handshake provides (wasn't a fan of the blockchain implementation though). Vint proposed a system with similar properties in the past as well: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/12/232883-self-authenticating-identifiers/fulltext https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/12/232883-self-authentic...