Internet administration to shift from U.S. to global stage

Politico ^ | March 14, 2014 | ERIN MERSHON and JESSICA MEYERS

[La Lydia]

The U.S. Commerce Department is relinquishing its hold over the group that manages the Internet’s architecture amid pressure to globalize its functions in the wake of reports about NSA surveillance. The National Telecommunications & Information Administration, a Commerce Department agency, said Friday it is transitioning the function to the “global Internet community.” The decision marks a dramatic change. Since the Internet’s inception, the United States has played a leading role in the management of critical back-end Web work, including management of .com and other domain names. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has performed those functions under U.S. Commerce contract since 2000.

The United States will give up its oversight role when the current contract with ICANN expires in fall 2015, NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling said...Some U.S. officials and businesses have expressed fears about the United Nations, or governments like Russia and China, taking over control of the Web...

Some U.S. officials have warned about the dangers of ceding ICANN’s authority to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency...countries like Russia and China could use it to allow online censorship….

Daniel Castro, a senior analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, disputed the connection between NSA revelations and Internet governance in an op-ed Friday, and he warned that ICANN would not be held accountable without U.S. control.

“If the Obama Administration gives away its oversight of the Internet,” he said, “it will be gone forever.”…

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller applauded the government’s decision to relinquish oversight of the Internet’s critical functions, calling it “the next phase” in a transition to “an independent entity that reflects the broad diversity of the global Internet community.”...

[La Lydia]

Why would it be pulled? The source is legitimate. I did not break any rules. What is your point?

[La Lydia]

Jay Rockefeller is not one of the brighter bulbs on the Congressional chandelier, and he never heard of a left-wing crackpot idea that he did not endorse.

[Political Junkie Too]

Obama is on a mission to eliminate anything that the United States holds in superiority to other countries.

If it will weaken the United States in some way, Obama will do it.

If it will strengthen the United States, Obama will reject it.

-PJ

[doc1019]

Because the last 6 times or so this subject was posted, it was pulled. All of the postings were by different folks and about 10 min. apart. I figured yours would be next ...

[jjotto]

hehe

Perhaps not coincidentally, this is at least the seventh thread on this topic, all of which are very much still available.