Tricia Drakes and Michael Palage have posted a proposal to solve one of the issues that has repeatedly been mentioned during the WSIS consultations. Make countries find it awkward that changes to their ccTLD in the root zone file has to be approved by the US DoC.

While this proposal will doubtlessly address some of the concerns, it does not yet solve the issue with gTLDs, nor does it address the perspective of an real, independent regulatory agency for names and numbers.