US, ICANN See No Rush to Transfer Oversight of Internet Addresses

Officials from the U.S. government and the private non-profit group that manages the Internet's “address book” promised on Wednesday to not rush a Commerce Department plan to relinquish oversight over Internet infrastructure management.   The United States said in March it would give up a direct oversight role, which it says has long been symbolic, over the work of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN.   Critics fear that the move may open the...

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