Posted on 02/19/2015 7:34:13 PM PST by lbryce
Even though the Internet has long been an international community, the United States has always been at its center. However, that all may be about to change as the U.S. Department of Commerce scales back its role in Internet governance. The transition is a gradual one, but by the end of the year, the DOC is expected to give up its oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to the international community.
The concept of Internet governance may seem like a bizarre one since it often seems like the Wild West out there. The most tangible example of ICANNs impact on Internet governance is management of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions: When you type a domain name in your browser (e.g. TechCrunch.com), it connects you with the long, multi-digit IP address that would otherwise be impossible to remember.
On its face, it may not seem like a big deal who manages this process. As long as TechCrunch.com actually gets you to TechCrunch.com, does it really matter if its the U.S., ICANN, or some random guy whos behind it? But that question assumes that your URL actually gets you to your destination.
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This seems like a (very) big thing.
Keep this in America’s control.
It’s too late. Like it is everything America.
Its an insane move. Of course here in the US the FCC will be totally regulating Americans on the internet. Not giving up any control here.
Zackly.
wtf does “International” mean? Other than looking a big empty word peopled by empty souls?
Give me someone who can locally run a pizza shop well any day to take care of the internet instead of this globalistas hubris which is only ideological scholarship for brainwashed incompetent idiots who want make believe importance.
We created it. I don’t know why anyone else has a right to control it. Let them build their own stuff and control it.
“wtf does International mean?”
Russia, China, Iran, Brussels, etc ...
If it will not fly there, it will not fly in the US ...
I thought Congress stopped this?
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