GOP Tried again to stop President Obama from Giving up a key Internet oversight role. It won't work.

After several attempts, Republicans in Congress managed to slip a provision into the massive $1.1 trillion spending bill passed by the Senate that would prevent the Obama administration from giving up part of its oversight of how the Internet runs. Observers say, though, that there's little chance that the GOP's legislative language will actually slow the process at all.

The Commerce Department's Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract does not run out until fiscal 2016 and a measure in a fiscal 2015 appropriations bill won't affect the handover. Also, nothing in the bill stops the agency from taking steps to simply end the contract. What's more, Congress doesn't have oversight over the place where the real IANA action is taking place, which is Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the California-based non-profit that oversees Internet governance all over the world.