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Should the UN Replace ICANN?

Posted by timothy on from the gold-medal-in-arrogance dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo news has a story on how some developing countries want control of the assignment of network names and numbers turned over to an international body, such as the UN's ITU (International Telecommunication Union)."

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  1. This is simple... by LighthouseJ · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Call Al Gore and find out what he thinks, afterall he invented the thing.

  2. No!!! by darkfus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Its all ours.. Al Gore invented the Internet! Stop this madness - this would be like letting them have electricity too.

    my sig file is somewhere below..

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  3. HAHAHAHA!!! by HangingChad · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The UN couldn't break up a cookie fight at Brownie Camp, let alone manage something as complex as the internet.

    HAHAHAHAHA!!!

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    That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
  4. Re:Without Mercy by Oracle+of+Bandwidth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A little more seriously, what is to stop everyone from saying "Screw you" to the UN and using their own domian name servers?