AFP News – Tue, Aug 4, 2015
The overseers of the Internet on Monday published a keenly anticipated proposal to step out from under US oversight.
Under the plan, nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) would create a separate legal entity that would be contracted to handle key technical functions of the online address system.
A "Customer Standing Committee" would monitor performance of what would essentially be an ICANN subsidiary, and a review process involving...
ICANN posts proposal to end US oversight of Internet
The overseers of the Internet on Monday published a keenly anticipated proposal to step out from under US oversight.
Under the plan, nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) would create a separate legal entity that would be contracted to handle key technical functions of the online address system.
A "Customer Standing Committee" would monitor performance of what would essentially be an ICANN subsidiary, and a review process involving...
ICANN posts proposal to end US oversight of Internet