Yesterday, July 6, was the deadline for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to supply answers to a laundry list of question posed by the US House Commerce Committee. However, for reasons we are yet to discover, the deadline has been extended until towards the end of this week, according to ICANN.
The letter from Committee chairman Tom Bliley to ICANN chair Esther Dyson was sent June 22. It asked Dyson to explain numerous things about ICANN’s policies, how it made its decisions and how it came into being, among other matters. Nobody at the Commerce Committee could get back to us by press time to explain the extension, but a reason presumably lies somewhere between the extensive list of questions, the relatively short period of time ICANN was given initially and the July 4 holiday. A public hearing is expected on the matter before the end of this month.
