U.N. Summit Lets U.S. Keep Control of Internet Domain Names

FoxNews ^ | Nov 16, 2005 | AP

[proud_yank]

TUNIS, Tunisia — A U.N. technology summit opened Wednesday after an 11th-hour agreement that leaves the United States with ultimate oversight of the main computers that direct the Internet's flow of information, commerce and dissent.

A lingering and vocal struggle over the Internet's plumbing and its addressing system has overshadowed the summit's original intent: to address ways to expand communications technologies to poorer parts of the world.

Negotiators from more than 100 countries agreed late Tuesday to leave the United States in charge, through a quasi-independent body called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN.

That averted a U.S.-EU showdown that threatened to derail the so-called World Summit on the Information Society.

"If the Internet had been developed in Australia, I don't think we would have had so much heat on this discussion," ICANN chief Paul Twomey, an Australian, remarked of the tension surrounding the U.S. control of the Internet.

[proud_yank]

Ughhh.... The title of this alone rattles my bones. How can they 'agree' to let us keep the internet? We invented it (Thanks Gore!!), we funded it, and we developed it. This world of socialist mediocrity they are trying to create is disgusting.

[frogjerk]

AMERICA: "Hey U.N., create your own INTERNET!"

[No Blue States]

Well said. The word "let" rattles by bones too.

By the way, thanks Australia. What a great ally.

[notaliberal]

Thank God, I was so worried that they would take it away from us.</sarcasm>

[Howlin]

ICANNnot

[proud_yank]

'Whats theirs is ours'. Typical socialist mindset.

[benjamin032]

Is the UN going to let us keep our money too? Oh, wait, never-mind.

[brownsfan]

"The word "let" rattles by bones too. "

Yep. The only reason they "let" us keep control is they couldn't TAKE it from us.

Nimrods.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Exactly. Thanks for "letting" us keep what we made.

Next UN step...trying to institute an international internet tax.

[peyton randolph]

Gee. Will they 'let' us keep control of our military too? Mighty benevolent of them.

[kingattax]

."We are developing a 'Websites-for-Food' program"

[cripplecreek]

In related news, UN allows Americans to continue living on North American continent.

[Uncle Miltie]

I want to register: www.F***TheUN.com

[Element187]

"U.N. Summit Lets U.S. Keep Control of Internet Domain Names"

Wow.. how very muslim of them. Thanks.

[proud_yank]

Scrap the 'US Patent system', its now called the 'UN patent system'. For 'the better good', right?

[Phantom Lord]

The UN gaining control of the internet is easily in the top 5 worst things possible that could happen to the US, and the people of the world.

[HawaiianGecko]

	U.N. Summit Lets U.S. Keep Control of Internet Domain Names Where in the world does the word "Lets" come into play. The United States paid for and built the net. Just ask Al Gore. Now, we could give it away like Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal, but it's not like the U.N. and its members can take it away.

 

 

[frogjerk]

-chortle-

[peyton randolph]

Next UN step...trying to institute an international internet tax.

I was reading the other day that the 1999 bit tax proposed by UN weenies would today generate about $ 12 trillion annually...the same as U.S. GDP. Yep. I'm all for the UN having access to that type of money. /sarc

[benjamin032]

Heck, they barely let us keep our own justice system