Daniel Sullivan actually said...

what should we be doing as a Congress to give our negotiators, our administration, our allies more authority to thwart the attempts at Inter...

I think that what's going on with the ICANN transition... is not going to change the motives.

the danger here is, in fact, that we could create a situation in which people don't want IANA anymore

An even 5 percent expansion of its own jurisdiction, its self-declared expansion in certain States can be an enormous expansion.