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U.S. Retains Control of Internet DNS

In an important declaration, the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration stated it will not, at this time, consider surrendering control of the Internet DNS services, operated by ICANN, to the U.N. or other foreign agency.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/USDNSprinciples_06302005.htm

There is a good article about this, highlighting some of the ramifications of this decision, along with commentary regarding the proponents who are for moving this outside the U.S., here:

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20051101facomment84602/kenneth-neil-cukier/who-will-control-the-internet.html

And, of course, some good SlashDot discussion of the issue (as always, I suggest, filtering for comments with a score of 4+ to weed out most of the chaff):
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/04/2044236

Posted by khiggins at November 5, 2005 06:32 AM | TrackBack