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Will Geopolitics Muddle Control Of Cyberspace?
IBD's Click ^ | 9/14/2010 | Reinhardt Krause

Posted on 09/14/2010 2:18:39 PM PDT by Slyscribe

Trouble may be brewing in cyberspace a year after the U.S. loosened its oversight over the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN manages the Web addressing system that enables computers to connect to each other as well as Web site domains. Ahead of the International Telecommunications Union’s Plenipotentiary Conference in Mexico next month, there’s concern that Geneva-based ITU may try to get more involved in Internet governance

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: government; icann; internet; web

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