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  • WSJ: e-Meddling - U.N.'s Working Group wants to control Internet Governance

    10/17/2005 5:21:52 AM PDT · by OESY · 2 replies · 526+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | October 17, 2005 | Editorial
    International bureaucrats and assorted countries are struggling to wrest control of "Internet governance" from that old unilateralist bogeyman, the United States. There's one big problem with this picture: Cyberspace isn't "governed" by the U.S. or anyone else, and that's the beauty of it. But if the United Nations gets its way..., the Web will end up under its control.... Internet governance, such as it is, currently falls under the purview of a California-based nonprofit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Better known as Icann, it was created by the U.S. Commerce Department in 1998 to administer the...