[upchuck]

It’s strange that this is receiving no coverage in the US

Here are a few links for you:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/10/us-icann-internet.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574446942665685208.html
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/oct2009/gb2009102_460955.htm
http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/policy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220300724

Go to Google news and type ICANN in the search box. Hundreds of articles.

[ResponseAbility]

How are the programmers and the warez community reacting to this?

[NorwegianViking]

UpChuck, appreciate you. I think I had limited my Google search to just “US Relinqueshes Control of Internet”. Thanks again.

[Will88]

There have been articles going back months about the US giving up some control of the internet to international bodies, but if this were really some ceding of free speech that subjected the US internet network to foreign control the net would be on fire about it.

I stick with my statement that few understand what this means.

[algernonpj]

Thanks for the additional links.