The New York Times Scoops the Rest (again)!
FYI:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/cyber/capital/02capital.html
Congressional Investigators Scrutinize Internet Oversight Group
By JERI CLAUSING
May 2, 2000
WASHINGTON -- The Internet's always controversial oversight body, the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), is facing a
new round of scrutiny that promises to reignite a nearly two-year-old
debate over the validity of its creation, its mission and its authority.
The General Accounting Office, the independent investigative arm of
Congress, has been contacting nearly everyone who has ever had anything to
do with the process that created Icann for a comprehensive report that is
due on June 30.
Icann has been the subject of intense controversy since it was picked by
the Clinton administration in late 1998 to oversee the Internet's
addressing, or domain name system, and to introduce competition into the
lucrative business of registering domains.
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Among the questions the GAO apparently will be trying to answer is whether
the Clinton administration had the legal authority to hand administration
of the Internet to a private entity and how ICANN was selected.
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