[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 805 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 805

      To prohibit the National Telecommunications and Information 
  Administration from relinquishing responsibility over the Internet 
 domain name system until the Comptroller General of the United States 
 submits to Congress a report on the role of the NTIA with respect to 
                              such system.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 5, 2015

  Mr. Shimkus (for himself, Mr. Barton, Mr. Cramer, Mrs. Ellmers, Mr. 
   Lance, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Farenthold, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Bucshon, Mr. 
Kline, Mr. Walden, Mr. Rokita, Mr. Latta, and Mr. Long) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
      To prohibit the National Telecommunications and Information 
  Administration from relinquishing responsibility over the Internet 
 domain name system until the Comptroller General of the United States 
 submits to Congress a report on the role of the NTIA with respect to 
                              such system.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Domain Openness Through Continued 
Oversight Matters Act of 2015'' or the ``DOTCOM Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. NTIA RETENTION OF DNS RESPONSIBILITIES PENDING GAO REPORT.

    (a) Retention of Responsibilities.--Until the Comptroller General 
of the United States submits the report required by subsection (b), the 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information may 
not relinquish or agree to any proposal relating to the relinquishment 
of the responsibility of the National Telecommunications and 
Information Administration (in this section referred to as the 
``NTIA'') over Internet domain name system functions, including 
responsibility with respect to the authoritative root zone file, the 
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions, and related root zone 
management functions.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date on which the NTIA 
receives a proposal relating to the relinquishment of the 
responsibility of the NTIA over Internet domain name system functions 
that was developed in a process convened by the Internet Corporation 
for Assigned Names and Numbers at the request of the NTIA, the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a 
report on the role of the NTIA with respect to the Internet domain name 
system. Such report shall include--
            (1) a discussion and analysis of--
                    (A) the advantages and disadvantages of 
                relinquishment of the responsibility of the NTIA over 
                Internet domain name system functions, including 
                responsibility with respect to the authoritative root 
                zone file, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority 
                functions, and related root zone management functions;
                    (B) any principles or criteria that the NTIA sets 
                for proposals for such relinquishment;
                    (C) each proposal received by the NTIA for such 
                relinquishment;
                    (D) the processes used by the NTIA and any other 
                Federal agencies for evaluating such proposals;
                    (E) any national security concerns raised by such 
                relinquishment; and
                    (F) any concerns raised by such relinquishment with 
                respect to the security of the Internet domain name 
                system or the security of other information networks 
                and systems; and
            (2) a definition of the term ``multistakeholder model'', as 
        used by the NTIA with respect to Internet policymaking and 
        governance, and definitions of any other terms necessary to 
        understand the matters covered by the report.
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