[BlueDragon]

Icann chief Rod Beckstrom, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur and Washington insider who took over running the organisation in July, said there had been legitimate concerns that some countries were developing alternative internets as a way of routing around American control. "It's rumoured that there are multiple experiments going on with countries forking the internet, various countries have discussed this," he said. "

So? why would that be a problem? They have to connect with the rest, or else have their own limited networks. They can have their own limited networks, all they want, anyways... Let 'em.

If that became a problem,
Fork 'em right back, faster and harder...

[lentulusgracchus]

More on Rod Beckstrom in this article: he's been around the Net:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/us/politics/17cyber.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

[Refraining from posting live link.]

This move would appear to be Zero's response to a brouhaha that blew up last April, with people (incl. Republicans) complaining the National Security Agency had too much Net capability and control.

But still .... alienating the 'Net completely? Damn!