Post by Forever Sunshine on Mar 17, 2014 22:43:47 GMT -5
A plan by the Obama administration to relinquish control over the organization that administers the Internet is raising concerns that the United Nations -- or individual foreign governments -- could make a play for control of the web.
The organization in question is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. The group controls web domain names and other aspects of Internet architecture, and operates under a contract with the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
On Friday, that agency quietly announced that it wants ICANN to come up with a new governing structure -- one that would be "global" and involve multiple "stakeholders."
"This is all about ... separating the Internet from government control," said Cameron Kerry, former general counsel with the Commerce Department. "And the United States is in the strongest position to argue against government control of the Internet if it relinquishes that last little bit of control that it has."
www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/17/backlash-over-administration-decision-to-relinquish-control-internet/?intcmp=latestnews
The organization in question is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. The group controls web domain names and other aspects of Internet architecture, and operates under a contract with the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
On Friday, that agency quietly announced that it wants ICANN to come up with a new governing structure -- one that would be "global" and involve multiple "stakeholders."
"This is all about ... separating the Internet from government control," said Cameron Kerry, former general counsel with the Commerce Department. "And the United States is in the strongest position to argue against government control of the Internet if it relinquishes that last little bit of control that it has."
www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/17/backlash-over-administration-decision-to-relinquish-control-internet/?intcmp=latestnews
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