WashingtonExaminer: Commerce Department officials think they’re making headway on Capitol Hill with the Obama administration’s plans to follow through with a Clinton-era directive to privatize certain Internet management functions, even as the House readies to again delay the move.
Last March, the Commerce Department said it would finish the transition started in the late 1990s, and set this September as the deadline for proposals on how to do so. But Congress refused to fund the move, and required the administration to delay its plans to turn over stewardship of the Internet naming system to the “global multi-stakeholder community” by a year.
Congress cited worries that the transfer might embolden authoritarian regimes to censure and take control of the Internet.