Funding for NTIA’s transition of the Internet Assigned...

Funding for NTIA’s transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority wasn’t mentioned in the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies’ markup Tuesday of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act FY 2015. The bill was unanimously approved by the subcommittee and allocated $8.6 billion to the Commerce Department to “create cybersecurity standards to protect dot-mil, dot-gov, and dot-com,” among others, said a subcommittee news release (http://1.usa.gov/1iPva46) Tuesday. It didn’t mention NTIA, and we didn’t immediately hear back from the subcommittee on whether the bill would give the agency all the money it needs for the IANA transition. The House version of the bill (HR-4660), which the House passed Friday, reduced NTIA’s funding from the $51 million requested by the executive branch to $36.7 million to stop the transition (CD June 2 p8). The Senate bill allocates $722 million to the Department of Justice for cybersecurity, the same as FY 2014, said the release. The Senate Appropriations Committee will have a markup vote on the bill in 106 Dirksen at 10 a.m. Thursday (http://1.usa.gov/1kqoSfE).