A high-level Commerce Department official wrote to the chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers on Wednesday offerings the Bush administration's views regarding how to improve "institutional confidence" at the international body charged with administering the Internet-addressing system.
In Acting Assistant Secretary Meredith Baker's letter to Peter Dengate-Thrush, she wrote that "while ICANN had made significant progress in several key areas, important work remains." Stakeholders believe ICANN should implement effective processes that will enable: long term stability; accountability; responsiveness; continued private sector leadership, stakeholder participation; increased contract compliance; and enhanced competition, she said.
An ICANN steering committee posted a series of interrelated documents in June that touch on several of those key areas "but ensuring continued private sector leadership, increased contract compliance and enhanced competition are minimally addressed, if at all." The department believes those issues require "affirmative and concrete actions" on ICANN’s part, Baker wrote. Read the rest of her letter here.
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