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Joseph T. Burns: “I understand that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, intends to request that the Department…”

On the recordDecember 15, 2000
I understand that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, intends to request that the Department of Commerce transfer the Internet's authoritative root server to ICANN's control. The authoritative root server is the foundation of the Internet, which cannot function without it. Would the chairman agree that the Department of Commerce should retain control of the authoritative root server until the appropriate committees of Congress have reviewed the legality, appropriateness and implications of such a transfer?

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