Goodbye NTIA, hello…? - Center for Democracy and Technology (blog) | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
From cdt.org - March 21, 2014 1:14 PM

Last Friday, the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)announced plans to transition its oversight of key technical coordination functions of the Internet to “the global multistakeholder community.” Currently, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is under contract with NTIA to perform certain limited but essential functions associated with the global domain name system. Together, these are referred to as the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) functions. Among them is the maintenance of the root zone that sits at the top of the domain name system’s hierarchy of Internet addresses. Under the current system, NTIA approves all changes to the root zone file.