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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">That&#8217;s only the simple version.&nbsp; 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&#8230;).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">As for the further US oversight of the US giving up oversight &#8211; it could be painful or not.&nbsp; Fadi Chehade and Larry Strickling both assured the house committee
 that held a hearing last week that they would be kept fully informed. &nbsp;Whether that&#8217;s enough&#8230;.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> Seun Ojedeji [mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 07, 2014 2:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Shatan, Gregory S.<br>
<b>Cc:</b> James Seng; Avri Doria; discuss@1net.org List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [discuss] H.R 4367 : Internet Stewardship Act of 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Shatan, Gregory S. &lt;<a href="mailto:GShatan@reedsmith.com" target="_blank">GShatan@reedsmith.com</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">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.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think this is likely to happen.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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&nbsp; and not through senate party representations (as you have described above).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">What it is doing is focusing scrutiny and visibility on the transition process (and on the Congresspeople
 that have sponsored these bills).&nbsp; 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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 ;)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Greg Shatan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss-bounces@1net.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss-bounces@1net.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>James Seng<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 07, 2014 1:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Avri Doria<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss@1net.org</a> List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [discuss] H.R 4367 : Internet Stewardship Act of 2014</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">A related H.R. 4342 &quot;Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters Act of 2014&quot; (or as is Republican Rep. John Shimkus called
 it &quot;DOTCOM Act of 2014&quot;) further along process and already gathered 11 co-sponsors.&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">So given the House of Representative is mostly controlled by Republican, I think either of these two H.R is going to get through.&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Question is whether it would actually have any effect on the process remains unknown.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Avri Doria &lt;<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org" target="_blank">avri@acm.org</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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I can't imagine that this will ever become law.<br>
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avri<o:p></o:p></p>
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On 07-Apr-14 11:21, James Seng wrote:<br>
&gt; In case anyone cares, the H.R 4367 aka &quot;Internet Stewardship Act of<br>
&gt; 2014&quot; as discussed on 2nd April is now available.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; 2.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; NTIA prohibited from relinquishing DNS responsibilities<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information<br>
&gt; may not relinquish or agree to relinquish the responsibilities of the<br>
&gt; National Telecommunications and Information Administration with respect<br>
&gt; to Internet domain name functions, including responsibility with respect<br>
&gt; to the authoritative root zone file, the Internet Assigned Numbers<br>
&gt; Authority functions, or the related root zone management functions,<br>
&gt; unless such relinquishment is permitted by a statute enacted after the<br>
&gt; date of the enactment of this Act.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; --<br>
&gt; -James Seng<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#006600">Seun Ojedeji,<br>
Federal University Oye-Ekiti<br>
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