---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 17:17:54 -0400 From: James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list RANDOM-BITS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Senator Judd Gregg on ICANN, in CJS Appropriations I was told today that Senator Judd Gregg put the following language into the CJS Appropriations conference report regarding ICANN. Jamie -------------------- The Committee directs the Government Accounting Office to review the relationship between the Department of Commerce and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and to issue a report no later than June 2000. The Committee requests that GAO review: 1) the legal basis for the Department s selection of U.S. representatives to ICANN s interim board and for the expenditure of funds for the costs of U.S. representation and participation in ICANN s proceedings; 2) whether the U.S. participation in ICANN proceedings is consistent with U.S. law, including the Administrative Procedures Act; 3) a legal analysis of the Department of Commerce s opinion that OMB Circular A-25 provides ICANN, as a project partner with the Department, authority to impose fees on internet users for ICANN s operating costs; and, 4) whether the Department has the legal authority to transfer control of the A root server to ICANN. In addition, the Committee seeks GAO s evaluation and recommendations regarding placing responsibility for U.S. participation in ICANN under the National Institute for Standards and Technology rather than the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and requests that GAO review the adequacy of security arrangements under existing Department cooperative agreements. -- James Love / Director, Consumer Project on Technology http://www.cptech.org / [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036 voice 202.387.8030 / fax 202.234.5176
