NTIA will control the root name servers?

Fri Jul 1 22:18:38 UTC 2005

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/01/HNinternetdirectories_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/01/HNinternetdirectories_1.html

Is this operational or dross?

Basically it sounds like the U.S. Gov't (NTIA)/U.S. Dept of Commerce 
will take back control of the root name servers from ICANN at some 
point. I suppose they might just contract operation of them to ICANN, 
but its unclear to me.

I'm hesitant to post because if this were a huge deal I would have 
expected someone to beat me to the punch. But then again, its a holiday 
weekend in the U.S.

Deepak