The Obama administration recently nominated Larry Strickling assistant secretary of Commerce for communications and information, a post which would make him head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The NTIA is responsible for the US government agreement overseeing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is the technical coordinator of the global internet domain name system.
Strickling, with a background in the technology industry and at the US Federal Communications Commission, worked on the Obama campaign as a policy coordinator, and holds a degree from Harvard Law School (US).