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Milton,

This decision will likely get challenged in the courts in the near term…

Last year, in Senate hearing, Mr. John Kneuer
testified "it has been suggested that the responsibility for DNS technical management may shift to a UN agency as a result of WSIS. Let me take this opportunity to clarify that neither the WSIS nor the subsidiary discussions regarding Internet governance are chartered to take action or to yield an international treaty with binding obligations. Rather, the WSIS is a forum for discussions among interested parties that may yield proposals in the area of Internet governance. Further, the Department does not believe that any existing UN body, such as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) or the UN ICT Task Force, is qualified to assume the responsibilities currently held by ICANN for the technical coordination and management of the Internet domain name system."

Then, what happens?

Milton,

How do you expect ICANN to tell NITA what to do with .us as much as ICANN can tell SGNIC what to do with .sg?