Senators are pressing Commerce Secretary Locke and Assistant Secretary-Designate Larry Strickling to pay close attention to the relationship between the U.S. government and ICANN, reports Nextgov.The report comes about as the Joint Project Agreement that gives the Department of Commerce oversight of ICANN is scheduled to end on September 30 this year.”Sens. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Bill Nelson, D-Fla., wrote to Locke on Tuesday urging him to be a prominent player in finding a permanent accountability mechanism as the Commerce-based National Telecommunications and Information Administration seeks public comment on the issue,” the report in Nextgov continues.”The senators worry much of the progress ICANN has made could be jeopardized if its historic link to the United States is diminished.”To read this Nextgov report in full, see:
www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090521_3747.php