Re: U.S. Homeland Security dept, ICANN, and the root servers

[Sally Floyd <floyd@icir.org>]

>I have a problem in principle with all root-zone changes needing to be
>approved by the US Department of Commerce.  

Yep, me too.  

(Does the U.S. government really plan to try to take back parts of
a role that it has long given up, of responsibility for the global
Internet infrastructure?  It would be distressing if the IAB ended
up with no choice but to wade more deeply into the non-IETF-IANA
portion of the ICANN morass...)

- Sally