THE REVELATION OF .US REDELEGATION

What this makes clear, says Blog publisher Bret Fausett, is that ICP-1 (and RFC 1591) have no application to the operation of the .us TLD. Fausett says the implications are significant: the U.S. Department of Commerce has retained policy authority over some aspects of DNS administration. And if the Department of Commerce has chosen to follow its own practices (and not ICANN's) when redelegating .us, why couldn't it do the same for creating new gTLDs?

No sooner had the Blog printed this revelation, than ICANN declared, literally half an hour later!, that the .us redelegation was an "emergency."

Straight from the anals (ok, annals) of the ICANN "me-thinks-thou-dost-protest-too-much" department, this apparent "clarification" in response to the Blog report, only served to confirm the Blog.

"Read it carefully," says Fausett. "It's short, but speaks volumes. (and it doesn't change the point I made about the DOC.)"

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