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From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 18:07:38 -0500
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/11/cyber/articles/06magaziner.html Magaziner, Head of U.S. Internet Policy, Plans to Resign By JERI CLAUSING[] ASHINGTON -- Ira C. Magaziner, who has led the Clinton Administration's efforts to foster the growth of the Internet and electronic commerce, said today that he plans to leave the White House before the end of the year. ... Magaziner has also been leading the contentious effort to move administration of the Internet from U.S. government oversight to an international, nonprofit corporation. That function has been administered by the United States government -- at first directly, and in recent years under a government contract granting a registration monopoly to Network Solutions, a corporation based in Herndon, Va. A driving force toward creation of the new board was the demand by private companies around the world that they be allowed to compete with Network Solutions in the lucrative business of registering domain names. But finding a solution that balances the interests of more traditional, academic institutions with trademark holders and commercial entities with a huge stake in the future of electronic commerce proved difficult, and much controversy remains over the plan that Magaziner hopes to finalize this month. Last month, the Administration tenatively approved handing the reins of the Internet over to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The corporation was set up largely under the direction of one of the Internet's founders, the late Jon Postel. Although the ICANN proposal was presented as having "the support of a broad consensus of Internet stakeholders, private and public," several groups have complained that it was hammered out in secret and still lacks proper fiscal controls and appropriate power checks on future board members. The Department of Commerce has asked the nine-member interim board of ICANN to craft new bylaws that address those concerns, a proposal that is expected to be completed within the next week and which will be the topic of a public meeting next week in Cambridge, Mass.
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