US to maintain control of the internet

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US to maintain control of the internet

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/1 ... index.html
U.S. officials said early Wednesday that instead of transferring management of the system to an international body such as the United Nations, an international forum would be created to address concerns. The forum, however, would have no binding authority.
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The US government is barely involved anyway. Not sure what the big deal is.

Here's the contract between ICANN and the DoC, and this describes the change process for the root nameservers.

If you really want to know the file they seem to be whining about, it's here. I actually have to wonder if they really *know* what they are complaining about though. That file gets touched like once a year maximum.

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If the EU or UN somehow gained control of intarnets they would start taxing it immediately. :shock:
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UltraBurz wrote:If the EU or UN somehow gained control of intarnets they would start taxing it immediately. :shock:
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Will they at least still pay Al Gore royalties?
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Obviously not..
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US Created it, it should remain in US Control.
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Just like the Swiss created HTTP/HTML?

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Ddrak wrote:Just like the Swiss created HTTP/HTML?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
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Just like CNN created FTP?
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lol...wikipedia... The brits love to take stuff from the US and say they invented it or came up with something very similar earlier. Not even a mention of Arpanet in the entire article.
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Not claiming he created the Internet......just the HTTP standard for sharing web pages.
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