[discuss] H.R 4367 : Internet Stewardship Act of 2014

Mon Apr 7 18:31:13 UTC 2014

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Shatan, Gregory S. <GShatan at reedsmith.com>wrote:

>  That's only the simple version.  If the House and Senate have different
> versions of a bill, they have to confer and harmonize the bill, or it gets
> sent from one house to the other, etc. (Apologies to those who follow the
> legislative process more closely than I do, for inaccuracies...).
>

Sure we do have the house as a separate legislative arm. However what was
striking/strange is the voting process of the US senate that you described.

>
> As for the further US oversight of the US giving up oversight - it could
> be painful or not.  Fadi Chehade and Larry Strickling both assured the
> house committee that held a hearing last week that they would be kept fully
> informed.  Whether that's enough....
>
>
Well if it was indeed enough, we perhaps shouldn't have been reading such
headline in the bill ;)

Cheers!

>
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> *From:* Seun Ojedeji [mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, April 07, 2014 2:13 PM
> *To:* Shatan, Gregory S.
> *Cc:* James Seng; Avri Doria; discuss at 1net.org List
>
> *Subject:* Re: [discuss] H.R 4367 : Internet Stewardship Act of 2014
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Shatan, Gregory S. <GShatan at reedsmith.com>
> wrote:
>
> Even if either bill gets out of committee and is passed by the
> Republican-controlled House, it will need to go on to the
> Democratic-controlled Senate, pass there, and the be signed into law by
> President Obama.  I don't think this is likely to happen.
>
>
>
> Thanks for this; for explaining how the senate works in the US. In my
> country, there is one senate and it is either the majority go (as example
> republican-controlled) in support of a bill or not. A bill only go through
> the senate house collectively  and not through senate party representations
> (as you have described above).
>
>
>
> What it is doing is focusing scrutiny and visibility on the transition
> process (and on the Congresspeople that have sponsored these bills).  It
> may also result in some form of understanding regarding the nature and
> scope of US government (including Congressional) oversight of the NTIA and
> their decision-making process on the IANA transition.
>
>
>
> Hopefully the understanding that emerge will be toward improving further
> penetration and openness of the Internet as we know it today. Otherwise i
> did prefer not to have such understanding unveiled ;)
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Greg Shatan
>
>
>
> *From:* discuss-bounces at 1net.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at 1net.org] *On
> Behalf Of *James Seng
> *Sent:* Monday, April 07, 2014 1:46 PM
> *To:* Avri Doria
> *Cc:* discuss at 1net.org List
> *Subject:* Re: [discuss] H.R 4367 : Internet Stewardship Act of 2014
>
>
>
> A related H.R. 4342 "Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters
> Act of 2014" (or as is Republican Rep. John Shimkus called it "DOTCOM Act
> of 2014") further along process and already gathered 11 co-sponsors.
>
>
>
> So given the House of Representative is mostly controlled by Republican, I
> think either of these two H.R is going to get through.
>
>
>
> Question is whether it would actually have any effect on the process
> remains unknown.
>
>
>
> -James Seng
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I can't imagine that this will ever become law.
>
> avri
>
>
> On 07-Apr-14 11:21, James Seng wrote:
> > In case anyone cares, the H.R 4367 aka "Internet Stewardship Act of
> > 2014" as discussed on 2nd April is now available.
> >
> > 2.
> >
> > NTIA prohibited from relinquishing DNS responsibilities
> >
> > The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information
> > may not relinquish or agree to relinquish the responsibilities of the
> > National Telecommunications and Information Administration with respect
> > to Internet domain name functions, including responsibility with respect
> > to the authoritative root zone file, the Internet Assigned Numbers
> > Authority functions, or the related root zone management functions,
> > unless such relinquishment is permitted by a statute enacted after the
> > date of the enactment of this Act.
> >
> > --
> > -James Seng
> >
> >
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