Internet group submits plan for US to cede domain oversight

Washington

AFTER months of work, a group of international Internet experts has released a proposal describing how the US government can complete its domestically controversial plan to cede oversight of the non-profit entity that manages the Internet's names and addresses.

The 199-page document, published last week, follows the US Commerce Department's announcement last year that it would transfer its stewardship of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) to a global network of interested parties.