House Commerce Plans Wednesday DOTCOM Act Markup
The House Commerce Committee plans to vote Wednesday on the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters Act (HR-805), which passed the House Communications Subcommittee last week. An amended version of the bill would require NTIA to submit a report to…
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Congress certifying that ICANN’s Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) transition plan meets the U.S. goal of maintaining global Internet openness. HR-805 would give Congress 30 legislative days to review the report before NTIA can relinquish its IANA oversight role. The bill also would require NTIA to certify that ICANN has adopted proposed changes to its bylaws (see 1506100060). House Commerce’s markup is set to begin at 10 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn. The European Council voted Friday to endorse ICANN’s ongoing multistakeholder process for planning the IANA transition and said it “invites the global multi-stakeholder community to make further progress in the development of the transition process and efforts to retain the Internet as a single, open, neutral, free, and un-fragmented network. At the same time, the Council notes that any unjustified delay of this process could negatively impact internet governance debates worldwide.”