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The recently completed transition of internet technical function oversight can’t be reversed, Assistant Commerce Secretary Lawrence E. Strickling said Oct. 26.

“That contract is expired and can’t be brought back in this point of time,” Strickling, chief of the National Telecommunications & Information Administration, said at an internet governance event hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Strickling's remarks signalled that transition opponents can't roll back the move.

The U.S. Commerce Department allowed its oversight contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the non-profit that coordinates the domain name system, to expire Oct. 1, under a plan that the global internet community spent two years developing. In September, GOP lawmakers attempted to insert language in a stopgap government funding bill to block the transition. Four state attorney generals filed a last-minute lawsuit, which they later dropped after a federal judge refused to halt the transition.

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