The US Commerce Department and ICANN have entered into an “affirmation of commitments” that will see ICANN gaining some independence from US control over it’s operations.
Here are some quotes…
“DOC affirms its commitment to a multi-stakeholder, private sector led, bottom-up policy development model for DNS technical coordination that acts for the benefit of global Internet users…”
“DOC recognizes the importance of global Internet users being able to use the Internet in their local languages and character sets, and endorses the rapid introduction of internationalized country code top level domain names (ccTLDs)…”
