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How the U.S. can address Internet governance concerns

October 4, 2005

It may shock some people to learn that the Internet (or to be more precise, Internet technology) belongs to the government of the United States.  This arises from the fact that much of the underlying technology that runs the Net was funded by the US government.  This is why the only central point of control on an otherwise “ungovernable” Internet is managed by a US government contractor.  That point of control is the domain name system (aka, the “DNS“) and the contractor is a California non-profit company called ICANN.

A recent column by Declan McCullagh describes the on-going battle over the DNS with foreign governments putting forward the notion that such a central Internet resource should be under the control of an international group, not a single country. (more…)

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