Republican-controlled Congress may delay ICANN transition

The California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the allocation of internet domain names, is scheduled to transition to a full ‘multi-stakeholder’ model of policy making in September 2015. When the Obama administration announced, in March, its plan to end the US Department of Commerce’s oversight of ICANN, the European Commission welcomed the move. Speaking at a conference on internet governance at George Washington University on 17 November, Andrea Glorioso, ICT counsellor at the EU Delegation…