"At Afilias, we don't have an opinion about whether there needs to be another agreement," Mohan said. "We think all the parties need to make sure Internet stability isn't affected."

Kneuer says ICANN must demonstrate to the Commerce Department that it has the endorsement of the global Internet community and that it has " the core competency and contingency plans and systems in place to perform this critical function."

3. New Top-Level Domains

One issue that will dominate ICANN's meeting next week is the organization's plan to introduce hundreds of new generic top-level domains in the DNS. has been widely criticized for costing too much and creating too much chaos on the Internet infrastructure.

ICANN says the new domain name extensions will spur innovation and competition in the domain name industry and provide more choice for consumers. The new domains would be anywhere from three to 63 characters in length and could support Chinese, Arabic and other scripts.