Reston, VA and Geneva, Switzerland - 26th July 2006 - Speaking during today's US Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) public meeting on the transition of the Internet's domain name system (DNS) to the private sector, ISOC President and CEO Lynn St. Amour outlined how key Internet organizations need to have enough autonomy to respond appropriately to the fast-changing technical and operational environment of the Internet.

ISOC's comments come as the current Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the US Commerce Department and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) concerning administration of the DNS approaches expiry at the end of September 2006.

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